or the political violence precipitating the Irish Civil War of 1922-1923—the subject of his Burns Scholar Lecture on March 2 at 5:30 p.m. in the Burns Library Thompson Room. A collaboration between ...

Very few people can say they’ve lived through two pandemics and the Irish Civil War, but Sarah Coyle can. Believed to be Ireland’s oldest person, Ms Coyle is due to celebrate her 109th ...

It was an “unspeakable war,” wrote one journalist, and “a story that nobody dared to tell.” But contrary to popular assumption, the tragic Irish Civil War of 1922-1923—a wrenching, destructive run-up ...

¹ In 1936 he summed up his civil war: ‘there were two armies in 1922 ... If I cannot get the sympathy of the State when it is actually needed, I won’t require it when I am dead.

the War of Independence and the Irish Civil War for the Irish Film Institute’s Irish Independence film collection was another significant event during the Decade of Commemorations. Having this ...

In the century following the Irish Civil War (1922-1923), monuments were erected across the country to honour those who lost their lives and different causes for which they died. There is nothing ...

There is little doubt that many Irishmen enlisted in the Union Army very shortly after their arrival in the United States. Editor's note: On this day April 12, 1861, the Confederate Army opened ...

Battle after battle, the men of the Irish Brigade held the front lines. Under the guidance of strong leaders they encouraged a new sense of pride for Irish immigrants living in America. National ...

‘No Middle Path: the Civil War in Kerry’ offers an engrossing account of some of the darkest days in Irish history Historian and Author Owen O'Shea with his latest book 'No Middle ...