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Origins of Irish guerrilla tactics and how they were modified during the Irish War to be successful. The origins of Irish guerrilla tactics used during the War of Independence (1919-1921) are ...
And so, over the course of 1919-1921, these periodicals began to depict, in dramatic form, some of the key incidents during the Irish War of Independence. These were not necessarily accurate ...
Creating a list of Irish fiction dealing with the War of Independence, partition and the Anglo-Irish Treaty has two challenges. The first is the tendency of that fiction to approach big historical ...
May 17, 2018 at 2:00am BST THE latest publication in a series of books documenting IRA experiences in the War of Independence and Irish Civil War, The Men Will Talk To Me: Ernie O'Malley's ...
On this day 100 years ago, the truce that ended the Irish War of Independence came into effect after the conflict reached a stalemate. Secret talks over a truce between Sinn Féin President ...
The Truce that brought the War of Independence to an end in July 1921 resulted in jubilation, consternation and suspicion. Although welcomed by the public, it was clear to many Irish republicans ...
The Irish War of Independence stretched from 1916 to 1921. This period was followed by the Irish Civil War, which raged from 1922 to 1923. The Luger pistol, in several variations, played a key ...
1919: Sinn Féin sets up a Dublin assembly, which again proclaims Irish independence. Irish War of Independence breaks out. 1921: Anglo-Irish Treaty establishes the Irish Free State. 1949 ...
This is known as the War of Independence, though republicans took to calling it the "Tan War". With the IRA inflicting heavy casualties on the Royal Irish Constabulary, killing more than 50 of its ...
The Civil War was shaded by an omerta in the years after the conflict, swept under the carpet, an embarrassing and inconvenient coda to Irish nationalism's long struggle for independence.