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A short history of a strike by miners in South Wales in 1910 which led to a series of confrontations between workers and police, culminating in what became popularly known as the Tonypandy Riot.

An extract from “The Ballycotton Job: An Incredible True Story of IRA Pirates." The news that the IRA had captured a Royal Navy ship along with a v...

The threat of renewed war made by the British government at the end of the Treaty negotiations was finally carried out on 28 June 1922 but it was the Provisional Government of the Free State that s...

National Army’s use of field guns in battle of Four Courts saved many lives

A short history of a strike by miners in South Wales in 1910 which led to a series of confrontations between workers and police, culminating in what became popularly known as the Tonypandy Riot.

EVERY author attempting to write a book on Winston Churchill faces many potential bear traps.

The British, masters of propaganda during WWI, lost the press war in Ireland

Murdered mayors of Limerick - Limerick’s distinctive contribution to Ireland’s quest for freedom Reporter: );  ); LAST SUNDAY marked the centenary of the deaths of Joseph O’Donoghue, Michael O’Callaghan and George Clancy. O’Donoghue was a young member of the IRA; O’Callaghan had just retired as Mayor of Limerick; and Clancy had just been elected Mayor of Limerick. The brutal killing of the three men by British Crown forces, particularly the savage deaths of O’Callaghan and Clanc...

There wasnt much seasonal cheer in official circles in Dublin, Belfast or London at Christmas 1920. There just wasnt time. These few weeks saw Partition become a reality for the first time, with the creation in law of Northern Ireland, and seemingly the hopes for peace on the island dashed, hopes that had flickered for a few precious months. And yet, and yet... No sooner than hope for peace had been crushed, it was raised again. The imposition of that most alien of concepts for Nationalists, th...

The atmosphere of Cork city in the winter of 1920 was tense. In March, Lord Mayor Tomás MacCurtain had been assassinated by the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC). Terence MacSwiney, his successor, was arrested in August on charges of sedition and died on hunger strike in a London prison in October. About 30 miles west of the city on November 28, the IRA killed 17 members of the Royal Irish Constabulary’s Auxiliary Division at Kilmichael. Unsanctioned reprisals against Irish civilians and their ...