Seamus Devins News Today

Compromise should never be a dirty word in any true democrat's lexicon, says former tánaiste as he unveils plaque to War of Independence hero, Sean O'Donoghue

By September 1922 the Irish civil war had raged for nearly three months in a summer that saw the deaths of some of the Irish Revolution’s most prominent l...

Brigadier Seamus Devins, my mother's cousin, was among "Noble Six," as they've become to be known, who were killed by Free State forces in Co Sligo in 1922.

By mid-September 1922 the Republican forces were on the retreat throughout Ireland and were reverting to rural guerrilla tactics while the Free State controlled the cities and towns.

In an exciting new project, a Sligo-based team have completed the excavation of a cave used during the Civil War as an anti-Treaty IRA hideout. The project, fun...

On February 17, 1922, Finner Camp – set halfway between Ballyshannon and Bundoran – was handed over to the Irish Army by their British…