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 ...
The Irish War of Independence commenced with the Soloheadbeg ambush on 21 January 1919, and ended with the truce on 11 July 1921. In the interval, the Government of Ireland Act 1920 was introduced and ...
However, during the Irish War of Independence, de Valera left Ireland ... health to overwork and strain after negotiations with the British government and the Irish provisional government.
It’s this methodology that helped spark O’Halpin’s interest in studying similarities between Ireland and Afghanistan’s struggles to cope with anomalous, British-imposed and maintained borders, for ...