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 ...

Catholic and Protestant church leaders attended the ceremony as well as politicians from both sides of the border The 100th anniversary of the truce in the Irish War of Independence has been ...

As early as the Easter Rising, republicans had anticipated Ireland making a claim for the recognition of its independence at a post-war peace conference. Irish republicans had long sought to ...

A truce, which came into effect in July 1921, had halted the Irish War of Independence, and the Anglo-Irish Treaty agreed between the United Kingdom and negotiators from the Irish republican ...

On this day, Jan 2, 1920, recruitment began for the Black and Tans, Britain’s unofficial auxiliary army during the Irish War of Independence. The Black and Tans first arrived in Ireland on March ...

It was held between 21 and 28 January, and was an initiative of Irish nationalists in South Africa that sought to offset the power of the British empire during the War of Independence and Anglo ...

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 ...

said Ireland took active measures to secure its independence because of its neutrality during the Second World War. “In important locations such as the Shannon Estuary, pillboxes were grouped to ...

NEWS ANALYSIS. On December 1, the Irish rejected the country's pro-reunification party in the parliamentary elections. The ...

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the War of Independence, partition, the Anglo-Irish Treaty, the Civil War and the Free State’s accession to the League of Nations. Each chapter analyses a single year, from 1913 to 1923 ...