Podcast: Land and revolution in Ireland, with Terry Dunne
Terry Dunne joins John Dorney to discuss agrarian agitation, land reform and political upheaval in Ireland from 1919 to 1923. First aired …
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 …
‘A modification of the Treaty’: W.B. Yeats, W.T. Cosgrave, and secret peace talks in London during the Civil War
By Karl O’Hanlon In February 1923, as the Civil War raged in Ireland, W.T. Cosgrave secretly met Irish peer Lord Granard and …