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 ...

O’Connor’s civil war had been a matter of weeks, all just a few months before. The British travel writer H.V. Morton published his travelogue In search of Ireland in 1930. As he toured round ...

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 ...

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

Ernest Blythe was born in 1889 into a unionist farming family with an 80-acre farm close to Magheragall, near Lisburn.

It was summed up in a memorandum authored by Seán Lemass in 1944; the Irish needed exceptionally ... unlike so many of the Civil War generation who, psychologically, were scarred by what they ...

His latest venture, The Informer, is a rare look at the Irish Civil War inspired by the 1925 novel by Liam O’Flaherty. “I had always wanted to do a play about the Civil War because there haven ...

In the last days of the Irish Civil War, a fiddler living on a remote island off the west coast decides to sever ties with ...

Parties involved in present government formation talks owe debt of gratitude to former FG leader, says Prof Diarmaid Ferriter ...

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