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 ...

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 ...

educated at private school and Cambridge University and served in the British Army in the Boer War before becoming a committed supporter of Irish independence. He was part of the Irish delegation ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Historian Dr Margaret Ward, QUB, talks to RTÉ’s Bryan Dobson about the various roles that women played during the Irish war of independence. This is an excerpt from an interview filmed by ...

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

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 ...

John Swinney has vented his frustration at UK ministers being open to a trigger point for an Irish border poll, but not Scottish independence. Speaking to the Holyrood Sources podcast, the First ...