The Truce that brought the War of Independence to an end in July ... the enormous political challenges faced by the leaders of the Irish Free State. In the aftermath of Collins’s death, the ...

The Truce that brought the War of Independence to an end in July ... the enormous political challenges faced by the leaders of the Irish Free State. In the aftermath of Collins’s death, the ...

Eamonn Duggan has delivered an excellent synopsis of Sean Moylan’s life, especially of the active years of 1918 to 1923 ...

But his claim to fame might be that he was one of the rebels who started the War of Independence in Soloheadbeg ... place at Soloheadbeg where two Royal Irish Constabularies [RIC] policemen ...

The attack was the start of the Irish War of Independence. World War I, known as “the war to end all wars,” lasted four years, and decimated an entire generation of young men. Losses for the ...

To try to achieve independence, the new Sinn Féin MPs refused to take their seats (abstained) at Westminster in London. This was known as the Anglo-Irish War and was a very violent conflict.

it would mark the biggest shock to the UK since Irish independence a century ago – just as London grapples with the impact of Brexit. The pro-independence Scottish National Party leader said she ...