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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

one with an incredible stake in the whole story – Irish International rugby legend Donal Lenihan. Lenihan was delighted to officiate at the launch of The War of Independence in North Kerry ...

The Irish in the Resistance, by Clodagh Finn and John Morgan, chronicles Ireland's role in the French Resistance ...

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