It took 40-plus years of independence for the first meeting ... Lemass, a veteran of the 1916 Rising and the Civil War, had opposed the Anglo-Irish Treaty, which copper-fastened Northern Ireland ...

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 ...

The clash between the French and British colonial powers that ignited the French and Indian War ... Irish sound curiously like the cultural strain of MAGA: “a reputation for fierce independence ...

Southeast Asian country is now the world’s largest producer of opium and one of the largest manufacturers of synthetic drugs ...

Irish people identify with their struggle for independence from a larger ... political parties share similar views on Israel’s war in Gaza, he said. “The fact that we’ve reached the point ...

For generations Irish and Irish Americans have believed the “Nine Famous Irishmen” story, but alas, it strays far from the ...

In 1921, after a war of independence, Britain agreed to divide the island of Ireland into the indepedent Irish Free State and Northern Ireland, which continued to be administered from London.

In sport, the Irish Free State soccer league was ... For periods during the War of Independence between 1919 to 1921, the newspaper was suppressed by the British military authorities and ...

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 ...

A NEW historical series documents how Éamon de Valera betrayed the revolutionary Irish women who supported him through his ‘wilderness years’. TG4 series De Valera san Fhásach explores the life of the ...

A new documentary about legendary political figure Eamon de Valera criticises his attitude to women and accuses him of the ...