It’s this methodology that helped spark O’Halpin’s interest in studying similarities between Ireland and Afghanistan’s struggles to cope with anomalous, British-imposed and maintained borders, for ...

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 ...

A truce, which came into effect in July 1921, had halted the Irish War of Independence, and the Anglo-Irish Treaty agreed between the United Kingdom and negotiators from the Irish republican ...

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 ...

There is precious little footage of ordinary people going about their daily lives in the years following the Irish War of Independence and Civil War, he said. Gault's footage features 19 reels ...

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.

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 ...

The Auxiliaries, officially known as the Auxiliary Division of the Royal Irish Constabulary (ADRIC ... action with the Auxiliaries during the War of Independence. Both the Black and Tans and ...

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 ...