At the start of 1922, Ireland was in a state of relative peace after years of bloody fighting. A truce, which came into effect in July 1921, had halted the Irish War of Independence, and the Anglo ...

Just over a year later, in December 1922, Kevin O'Higgins signed ... of anti-Treaty IRA fighters by the new Irish Free State during the Irish Civil War remains one of the most infamous aspects ...

The Irish civil war began on 28 June 1922 when the National Army attacked the forces of the IRA Army Executive at the Four Courts in Dublin. The garrison surrendered on 30 June with comparatively ...

Perhaps the October 1922 burning of the lavish hunting lodge ... Gemma Clark, ‘Violence in the Irish civil war’, in John Crowley, Donal Ó Drisceoil and Mike Murphy (eds), Atlas of the Irish ...