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 …
Review: Burning the Big House, the Story of the Irish Country house in Time of War and Revolution
By Terence Dooley Published by Yale University Press, New Haven 2022 Reviewer: John Dorney Terence Dooley has devoted much of his …
A CHALLENGE: Rewriting Arthur Griffith’s role in the Treaty negotiations
For nearly ninety years, Frank Pakenham’s 1935 account of the Anglo-Irish Treaty talks in London (Peace by Ordeal) has dominated the narrative …
Betrayal or breakthrough? Arthur Griffith, the Boundary Commission and an unsigned memorandum
By Colum Kenny ABSTRACT: The interpretation of certain events in London on the weekend of 12–13 November 1921 is central to any …
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 …
‘Ireland and the World Stand Appalled’: The Limerick Curfew Murders, 1921
By Seán William Gannon Late on a March night in 1921, as Limerick city slept under a military curfew, armed and masked …