Trump may also be wise to note that de Valera’s position was bolstered when he could claim that he was being bullied by a ...

For Burns Visiting Scholar in Irish Studies Eunan O’Halpin ... s struggles to cope with anomalous, British-imposed and maintained borders, for example, or the political violence precipitating the ...

Twomey’s role in the Irish War of Independence was nothing short of extraordinary. Recruited by Brigade Intelligence Officer Seán Buckley, she had access to the secret communications of British ...

Before 1922, all of Ireland was ruled directly from Westminster close WestminsterThe London location of the British government.. However, many Irish people wanted independence from Britain.

Records into pensions claimed by the families of IRA Volunteers reveal the horror and poverty the War of Independence ... against the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) and British soldiers.

In order to support their own political objectives, Irish nationalists highlighted the sharp contrast to Ireland, still under British rule ... the years of the War of Independence as well.

Winston Churchill, British ... the war cabinet were completely unable to come to terms with the rise of Irish republicanism in the wake of the 1916 Rising. Indeed, they put the War of Independence ...

The Fenians were a group of Irish-Americans whose ultimate goal was Irish independence ... Civil War. "With the [Confederates] in mind, the Fenians hoped to seize and hold a bit of British ...