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.

The hybrid civilian/semi-military identity that colonial police forces and the RIC shared meant that most were happy to recruit from the ‘Old Force’ during the Irish War of Independence and ...

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 ...

In consequence, 493 RIC men were killed during the War of Independence. As the policemen became targets of the Irish Volunteers, many chose to resign and emigrate, as was the case with ex-RIC ...

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.

Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc has spent years researching the stories of victims who were secretly executed during the Irish War of Independence and Civil War. The Disappeared, as they are known ...