Civil War casualties in County Wicklow, 1922-1923
By Aaron Ó Maonaigh This article is part of an ongoing project to count the dead of the Irish Civil War of …
Casualties of the Irish Civil War in County Cork
Counting the cost of the Civil War in County Cork. By John Dorney This article is an attempt to count the fatal …
Mapping Civil War deaths in Dublin
By John Dorney. Based on the research for his new book The Civil War in Dublin, published by Merrion Press. This map …
Michael Collins: The Dictator?
Was Michael Collins the founder of Irish democracy or an aspirant dictator? By John Dorney People invest a lot in Michael Collins. …
‘This Splendid Historic Organisation’: The Irish Republican Brotherhood among the Anti-Treatyites, 1921-4
Daniel Murray on anti-Treaty attempts to revive the IRB during the Civil War. See also his article on the IRB after 1916. …
“A damn good clean fight.” The Last Stand of the Leixlip Flying Column
An anti-Treaty column is captured and five of its members executed in December 1922. By Christopher Lee. Heavy machine gun fire ricochets …
‘We must forgive but we won’t forget’ – The Treaty debates in the border counties.
How was the Anglo-Irish Treaty received in the counties it made a frontier zone? By John Dorney. If you lived in the …