but his actions at Soloheadbeg that day will go down in Irish history for its audaciousness and bravery, for it started a war that would bring Ireland her freedom after 700 years of British ...

The attack was the start of the Irish War of Independence ... on the eleventh month of 1918. British Prime Minister David Lloyd George became known as “the man who won the war.” ...

British-imposed and maintained borders, for example, or the political violence precipitating the Irish Civil War of 1922-1923—the subject of his Burns Scholar Lecture on March 2 at 5:30 p.m. in the ...

If you nodded off during history classes you may not remember the vast story of Ireland. Check out these Irish historical ...

The Truce that brought the War of Independence to an end in ... made the new state a dominion of the British Empire, and ensured that Irish parliamentary deputies swore an oath of fidelity to ...

Before 1922, all of Ireland was ruled directly from Westminster close WestminsterThe London location of the British government.. However, many Irish people wanted independence from Britain.

Sinn Fein has made a request for Belfast City Hall to be lit for "Irish National Day" for July 11, as the City Solicitor ...

The Truce that brought the War of Independence to an end in ... made the new state a dominion of the British Empire, and ensured that Irish parliamentary deputies swore an oath of fidelity to ...