Edward Hyde and Bulstrode Whitelocke were teenage pals, but ended up in opposite ranks. Minoo Dinshaw’s outstanding book ...

So where does the name Ireland come from? Well, the name evolved over many centuries from the old Irish word for a Goddess; Ériu, as she was called, has been described as the matron Goddess of ...

The Anglo-Irish head-to-head between Willie Mullins’s star mare and the brilliant but fragile pride of British National Hunt racing is one to relish. Perhaps not since Istabraq’s final start ...

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 ...

One of the most controversial aspects of de Valera’s career is his actions in the lead-up to the Irish Civil War, which followed the ratification of the Anglo-Irish Treaty. Kenny believes that De ...

The present border in Ireland is geographically arbitrary but not accidental. Historically, the province of Ulster comprised nine counties, but in the early 20th century, as clamour for Irish ...

According to Seamus, no county, as small as Longford, has contributed so much to two Anglo-Irish Agreements over seven decades apart. Ballinalee men Henry Wilson and Seán MacEoin were competing ...

An attack on the Four Courts in Dublin marked the beginning of a bitter civil war between those who supported the Anglo-Irish Treaty and those opposed to it. Ireland's Public Record Office - a ...

After the bloodshed of the Irish War of Independence, which raged from January 1919 to July 1921, hopes were high that the Anglo-Irish Treaty would bring peace to Ireland. The treaty, which ...

1919-1921 was the period referred to in Irish history as the Anglo-Irish War or more commonly the War of Independence. The war was to be a systematic attack on Royal Irish Constabulary Barracks ...

But Ronan Fanning's book provides an intimate, almost cinematic retelling of the British government's policy toward Ireland during the Home Rule Crisis, the Rising, and the Anglo-Irish War that ...