during the years of the War of Independence as well. Irish accounts between 1918 and 1923, both first-hand and second-hand, indicated awareness of the social and political transformation of ...

Join the IrishCentral Book Club this April as we read the award-winning bestseller "Wounds - A Memoir of War and Love." ...

Once war was declared, Irish America rallied behind Wilson, burying for the time being some serious criticism that he hadn’t done enough on behalf of the cause of independence for Ireland after ...

Outlined Odran: "From now on every year we will be remembering local people from Offaly who were involved but whose names were never acknowledged in any previous commemorations. This year two local ...

Michael Portillo talks to Mark Carruthers and UCD historian, Prof Diarmaid Ferriter about his new RTE series 'Hawks and Doves', examining the Irish War Of Independence. Mr Portillo is a former ...

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 Burns Library Thompson Room. A collaboration between ...

It was an “unspeakable war,” wrote one journalist, and “a story that nobody dared to tell.” But contrary to popular assumption, the tragic Irish Civil War of 1922-1923—a wrenching, destructive run-up ...

Irish Republican Army This topic contains articles relating to the original IRA from the time of the Irish War of Independence (1919-1921). It also covers later paramilitary organisations that ...