Michael Collins and Éamon de Valera are two of the most iconic figures in Irish history ... the Civil War (Collins). However, Eoghan Plunkett, a nephew of 1916 Easter Rising leader Joseph ...

With Britain’s entry into the World War, the implementation of Home Rule was suspended and the leaders on the opposing ... Rising that led the majority of Irish Catholics to abandon the cause of Home ...

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 ...

The Irish flag, or tricolor, was first flown by Thomas Francis Meagher, then a leader of the Young Irelander ... adopted by the IRA during the Irish War of Independence (1919 – 1921), was ...