If you nodded off during history classes you may not remember the vast story of Ireland. Check out these Irish historical ...

The attack was the start of the Irish War of Independence. World War I, known as “the war to end all wars,” lasted four years, and decimated an entire generation of young men. Losses for the ...

But his claim to fame might be that he was one of the rebels who started the War of Independence in Soloheadbeg ... place at Soloheadbeg where two Royal Irish Constabularies [RIC] policemen ...

The Truce that brought the War of Independence to an end in July 1921 resulted in jubilation, consternation and suspicion. Although welcomed by the public, it was clear to many Irish republicans ...

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 ...

The fight for Irish independence in the 20th century — and the civil war that followed — created further chaos. An infamous battle at the Four Courts building in Dublin in 1922 ended in "a ...

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 ...

MacBride went on to become an international statesman. He was a joint founder of Amnesty International in 1961, United ...

Britain was preoccupied with the War and its army in Ireland was ... Home Rule was now a thing of the past. Full independence was now the goal of Irish Nationalism. Sinn Féin was led by Éamon ...

The Truce that brought the War of Independence to an end in July 1921 resulted in jubilation, consternation and suspicion. Although welcomed by the public, it was clear to many Irish republicans ...