the irish war of independence

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Violence against women in Belfast, 1920-22 – part 1: Killing and lethal violence

Women and children refugees from Belfast, in Dublin, May 1922 By Kieran Glennon Between July 1920 and October 1922, at least 499 people lost their

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By Eve Morrison, Published by: Irish Academic Press, 2022 ISBN: 9781788551458 Reviewer: Jack Hepworth Commemorating the west Cork IRA ambush of 28

21 min read 2022-03-20 20:49:15

Funeral at Mount St Lawrence cemetery By Seán William Gannon Late on a March night in 1921, as Limerick city slept under a military curfew, armed

10 min read 2022-02-18 18:42:24

By Liam Weeks and Micheál O Fathartaigh Published by Irish Academic Press, 2021 ISBN:9781788551595 Reviewer: John Dorney Readers in Ireland (and

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A memorial card for Joseph O’Sullivan and Reginald Dunne, both hanged in August 1922. By Martin Harkin Martyrdom is held most dearly in Irish

12 min read 2022-01-21 00:23:01

1920, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK — A British soldier guards a sandbagged blockhouse in Belfast on Orange Day during the Sinn Fein Rebellion. —

27 min read 2022-01-09 04:24:16

Michael Collins signs the Treaty. By John Dorney In the Second Dáil, on January 7 1922, the parliament of the Irish Republic or the House of Commons

2 min read 2021-12-30 17:26:29

Arthur Griffith, at the Mansion House in Dublin in July 1921, after the announcement of the Truce. Thanks to all of our writers contributors guest

1 min read 2021-11-10 18:18:48

Thomas Earls Fitzgerald I would firstly like to extend my thanks to John Dorney for his careful, measured and thoughtful review of my book. The Irish

1 min read 2021-11-06 18:21:21

By Thomas Earls Fitzgerald Published by Routledge, London 2021 ISBN 978-0-367-33352-2 Reviewer: John Dorney Thomas Earls Fitzgerald’s book is a

1 min read 2021-10-27 16:18:04

The aftermath of the burning of Cork, December 1920 By Dara Burke Picture the scene. Groups of armed men stalking Cork city, firing into the air,

1 min read 2021-10-21 17:27:45

Michael Fitzpatrick By Gerard Shannon On 10 April, 1923, Liam Lynch, IRA Chief-of-Staff, lay dying of bullet wounds in a public house in

1 min read 2021-10-04 16:01:40

October 1920: British soldiers guarding the railway in Ireland. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images/ RTE), By Kieran McNulty From late May to

1 min read 2021-09-03 16:38:06

Debris atop a building during the Johnstown flood of 1889. (Library of Congress.) By Mark Holan Media on both sides of the Atlantic rushed to report

1 min read 2021-08-20 23:36:03

By: Jim Herlihy Published by: Four Courts Press, Dublin 2021 Reviewed By: Seán William Gannon Jim Herlihy is hugely respected amongst historians of