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The Irish Civil War ended in 1923. 80 years on, author and documentary-maker Tom Hurley wondered if there were many civilians and combatants left from across Ireland who had experienced the years 1919 ...
He was one of the key leaders of the 1916 “Easter Rising” armed insurrection that ended with his execution but paved the way for most of Ireland to win its independence from Britain. But before that, ...
New research has found that the Irish rebels of the Irish Revolutionary period were more likely to come from families that were most affected during the Great Irish Famine. The study, entitled ‘The ...
The extraordinary story of the Irish War of Independence (1919-22): from the failed insurrection of 1916, the detailed account of how pro-independence Ireland rebuilt a movement whose efforts would ...
The Fenian Brotherhood was an Irish nationalist organization founded in 1858 to fight for Ireland's independence from British rule. Following the Civil War, Irish-American veterans in the Fenian ...
The memories I have of my paternal grandmother, Máirín Beaumont, mostly involve sweets. She lived with me in Dublin until her death in 1972, when I was five. Our house, a long bungalow by the sea, was ...