This other side of the army in Ireland is epitomised in ... that would absorb the British cabinet during the Irish War of Independence, the British government played a very dangerous game during ...

The legendary movie starring Cillian Murphy, The Wind that Shakes the Barley, was filmed in a number of locations - most of ...

Woodenbridge, 21 September 1914 - John Redmond, the leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party, has called on members of the Irish Volunteers to join the British Army. He said: ‘Go on drilling and ...

but his actions at Soloheadbeg that day will go down in Irish history for its audaciousness and bravery, for it started a war that would bring Ireland her freedom after 700 years of British ...

British-imposed and maintained borders, for example, or the political violence precipitating the Irish Civil War of 1922-1923—the subject of his Burns Scholar Lecture on March 2 at 5:30 p.m. in the ...

‘L et Ireland go, with God’s blessing and a shake of the hand’, wrote Jerome K. Jerome in May 1920. This was a crucial year ...

As the Irish War of Independence progressed in early 1921, the movements of British troops throughout the country were tabulated. Where it was noticed that convoys were maintained on a regular ...

The remarkable story of the Irish War of Independence (1919-1922) which resulted in the formation of the Irish Free State and became the model for other British colonies to gain their independence.

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.

When the first Dáil convened on January 21, 1919, independence ... an Irish assembly with a limited franchise and authority subject to the British Parliament. During the war, the IPP - led ...