A former IRA volunteer has called for the recovery of the remains of his uncle, who was an RIC constable executed by ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Winston Churchill, British Secretary of State for War, sent the Black and Tans ... One Protestant man was shot by the RIC and killed, and three Irish nationalists were convicted of firearms ...

A former IRA volunteer has called for the recovery of the remains of his uncle, who was an RIC constable executed by ...