During the War of Independence, the Irish Republican Army (IRA) was a largely decentralised organisation. While IRA General Headquarters GHQ) in Dublin issued broad policy guidelines and critiqued ...

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 ...

From the beginning of the conflict in January 1919 to its end in July 1921 an undeclared state of war existed across Ireland between the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and the forces of the British ...

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

Her family guessed he had fled over involvement with the Irish Republican Army. But she didn't know much ... to his homeland even after the Irish War of Independence ended in 1921 with a treaty ...

IrishCentral contributor Joseph Connell examines the life of a hero of Irish Republicanism, Máire Comerford, the fearless ...

Alfredo ‘Freddie’ Scappaticci was an Irish IRA member named in the Operation Kenova report as a British Intelligence mole with the codename ‘Stakeknife’ - Pacemaker Press ...

Kerry historian and author Dr Owen O’Shea is launching his latest book that charts the dramatic life and times of the ...

Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc has spent years researching the stories of victims who were secretly executed during the Irish War of Independence ... McGuinness setting up IRA car bomb unearthed after ...

the Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA).., which had become the largest political party in Ireland after the December 1918 General Election. To try to achieve independence, the new Sinn Féin ...