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 Burns Library Thompson Room. A collaboration between ...

It was an “unspeakable war,” wrote one journalist, and “a story that nobody dared to tell.” But contrary to popular assumption, the tragic Irish Civil War of 1922-1923—a wrenching, destructive run-up ...

Together with the lord mayor of Dublin he had attempted, in vain, to bring pro- and anti ... the excesses of the Irish government or the National Army during the civil war, no public condemnation ...

The constitution of the Irish Free State became law on ... The absence (due to the civil war) of anti-Treaty TDs meant that pro-Treaty Sinn Féin dominated proceedings. The main bones of ...

When the American Civil War ended in April 1865, a group of former northern solders, mostly Irish Americans ... An election was called, and a pro-Confederation party was returned to power ...

There was a grim starkness and raw legacy to pain inflicted and endured arising from the Civil ... Civil War. It was summed up in a memorandum authored by Seán Lemass in 1944; the Irish needed ...

‘No Middle Path: the Civil War in Kerry’ offers an engrossing account of some of the darkest days in Irish history Historian and Author Owen O'Shea with his latest book 'No Middle ...