A Partisan History Of The Name IRA
The historical lecturer Séan Ó Duibhir has an interesting if flawed review on the RTÉ website of the many insurgentContinue Reading
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The M1921 Thompson Submachine Gun, The IRA And The War Of Independence
While the American-manufactured Thompson submachine gun is frequently associated with the early 20th century incarnation of the Irish Republican ArmyContinue Reading
Liam Cosgrave, A Fine Gael And Free State Reactionary To The Last
The recent passing of the former Taoiseach and Fine Gael leader, Liam Cosgrave, had led to much eulogising by theContinue Reading
The Unconstitutional Pro-Treaty Faction Of The Irish Civil War
By the start of June of 1922, Michael Collins, Arthur Griffith and Richard Mulcahy had established themselves as the chiefContinue Reading
The 1922 Irish Free State Was Not The 1916 Irish Republic
A taste of the modern myth-making to come in 2022 from the Fine Gael and Labour Party inheritors of the counter-revolutionariesContinue Reading
The Great Betrayal Of Ireland’s Counter-Revolution
Back in 2014 I wrote about the “Great Betrayal”, the abandonment of an all-Ireland republic, an all-Ireland revolution, and anContinue Reading
Independent News And Media, The Ideological Enemy Within
During the revolutionary period in Ireland – by academic convention the six years from 1916 to 1921 – the British government authorised the official execution of forty-one Irish RepublicanContinue Reading
Leo Dowling 08.01.1923
The background to the execution by firing squad of Leo Dowling, carried out by the Irish Free State regime inContinue Reading
Belfast’s Fianna Éireann During The Irish Revolution
Due to the baleful influence of the Neo-Unionist lobby in the Dublin press corps since the 1970s popular culture inContinue Reading
Some Irish Stories
A few quick links to articles and posts that I have enjoyed over the last week or so. First upContinue Reading
From Ireland To Greece A Policy Of Divide And Conquer
Reading this account by Ed Vulliamy and Helena Smith in the Observer newspaper of Britain’s fermenting of the civil warContinue Reading
The Irish Famine Of 1925
These are the people, the right-wing Nationalist forces, that initiated and won the counter-revolutionary civil war of 1921-23 and thisContinue Reading
Ireland’s Great Betrayal
What date marks the end of Ireland’s War of Independence? It is a question more debated than you might think (alongContinue Reading
Britain’s Irish Civil War
In my 2011 review of historian Liz Gillis’ new Irish Civil War study “The Fall of Dublin” from Mercier Press IContinue Reading
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