The Belfast News Letter and the Irish Civil War
By John Dorney There were, effectively, two civil wars in Ireland in 1922-23. The first was within the new state of Northern …
‘They killed idealism in my soul’ – the end of the Irish Civil War
John Dorney If the Irish revolution began arguably with the Home Rule crisis of 1912-13, or perhaps with the Easter Rising of …
Jan Smuts and the Anglo-Irish Truce of July 1921
Jack Traynor Jan Smuts, a one-time Boer general turned South African statesman and British diplomat, made a dramatic intervention in Ireland in …
‘He Died as a Prince’: Erskine Childers: Executed November 1922
By John Dorney Erskine Childers was executed by the Irish Free State, 100 years ago this November, in Dublin’s Beggar’s Bush Barracks. …
Podcast: Commemorating the Irish Civil War 100 Years on
With John Dorney and Cathal Brennan, in association with the Irish History Show. We discuss: How the Irish Civil War is being …
The Cork Landings – August 8-10, 1922
On August 8 1922, pro-Treaty forces landed by sea in Cork, seizing the Free State’s second city from anti-Treaty forces. By John …
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 …