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 …
Attempts to gain Leon Trotsky asylum in the Irish Free State
By Jack Traynor Leon Trotsky was one of the most recognisable leaders of the Bolshevik Revolution in the international press, alongside Vladimir …
The Italian arms importation scheme, 1920-1921
How the clandestine Irish Republic attempted to buy arms from Italian ultra-nationalist leader Gabriele D’Annunzio. By Jack Traynor As the guerrilla campaign …