Wikipedia, the Black and Tans, and the ‘R.I.C. Special Reserve’
By David Leeson Who were the Black and Tans? According to Wikipedia: ‘The Black and Tans (Irish: Dúchrónaigh) were constables recruited into the Royal Irish Constabulary (R.I.C.) as …
Violence against Women in Belfast, 1920-22 – Part 2
Kieran Glennon Part 1 of this article examined the first two of the forms of violence against women in the revolutionary period …
Violence against women in Belfast, 1920-22 – part 1: Killing and lethal violence
By Kieran Glennon Between July 1920 and October 1922, at least 499 people lost their lives in the city of Belfast due …
Book Review: Combatants and Civilians in Revolutionary Ireland 1918-1923
By Thomas Earls Fitzgerald Published by Routledge, London 2021 ISBN 978-0-367-33352-2 Reviewer: John Dorney Thomas Earls Fitzgerald’s book is a study of …
A Stroll Through Rebel Cork
By Dara Burke. Dara runs a Cork city walking tour in his spare time Picture the scene. Groups of armed men stalking Cork …
‘A fight to the finish’: The hunger strike of Michael Fitzgerald, 1920
By Gerard Shannon On 10 April, 1923, Liam Lynch, IRA Chief-of-Staff, lay dying of bullet wounds in a public house in …
Book Review: The Time of the Tans: an oral history of the War of Independence in County Clare
By Tomás Mac Conmara, Published by Mercier Press, Cork, 2019 Reviewer: Aaron Ó Maonaigh Memory… is the diary that we all …