Ireland thus had the unusual distinction of having had a foreign policy and a diplomatic service before there was an internationally recognised independent Irish state. The origins of the modern ...

‘L et Ireland go, with God’s blessing and a shake of the hand’, wrote Jerome K. Jerome in May 1920. This was a crucial year ...

For Burns Visiting Scholar in Irish Studies Eunan O’Halpin ... s struggles to cope with anomalous, British-imposed and maintained borders, for example, or the political violence precipitating the ...

but his actions at Soloheadbeg that day will go down in Irish history for its audaciousness and bravery, for it started a war that would bring Ireland her freedom after 700 years of British ...

Before 1922, all of Ireland was ruled directly from Westminster close WestminsterThe London location of the British government.. However, many Irish people wanted independence from Britain.

As the Irish War of Independence progressed in early 1921, the movements of British troops throughout ... in conjunction with unit officer in command Jack O’Leary and vice officer in command ...

The Fenians were a group of Irish-Americans whose ultimate goal was Irish independence ... Civil War. "With the [Confederates] in mind, the Fenians hoped to seize and hold a bit of British ...

Now he was a de facto diplomat, and with the title ‘Delegate of the Provisional Government of the Irish ... propaganda recounting British atrocities and repression during the War of Independence.