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

The Truce that brought the War of Independence to an end in July 1921 resulted in jubilation, consternation and suspicion. Although welcomed by the public, it was clear to many Irish republicans ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

While historical tensions have been acknowledged, a shared solidarity and activism highlighted the relationship between ...

Britain was preoccupied with the War and its army in Ireland was ... Home Rule was now a thing of the past. Full independence was now the goal of Irish Nationalism. Sinn Féin was led by Éamon ...

CARLOW Historical and Archaeological Society (CHAS) will hold its next lecture in the Milford Room at the Seven Oaks Hotel on Wednesday 19 February at 8pm. Economic and social historian Andy ...

book, The Enchanted Bay: Tales and Legends from Ernie O’Malley’s Irish Folklore Collection shows us, he was also a gatherer ...

It refers to the metaphorical wasteland to which the future taoiseach was banished following his split with pro-Treaty revolutionaries at the end of the War of Independence. Just like Jesus in the ...

The Fenians were a group of Irish-Americans whose ultimate goal was Irish independence. They attempted to accomplish ... the same way the Confederate States of America did in the Civil War. "With the ...

The Truce that brought the War of Independence to an end in July 1921 resulted in jubilation, consternation and suspicion. Although welcomed by the public, it was clear to many Irish republicans ...