The death of Thomas Keating: A Civil War Killing in Waterford
By David Prendergast On April 11th 1923, Thomas Keating, the 30-year-old guerrilla commandant of the Waterford IRA 2nd Battalion, was trekking through the …
‘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 …
Podcast: Executions during the Irish Civil War
Cathal Brennan and John Dorney discuss the Government policy of execution during the Civil War of 1922-23. See also this article on …
‘One Irregular was killed’: The death of John Lawlor of Ballyheigue, Co. Kerry, 31 October 1922.
By Bryan MacMahon Ballyheigue, Co. Kerry, has received very little attention from national or even local historians of the revolutionary years of …
‘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. …
Fight for a Pension; John O’Sullivan’s fight for recognition
By Martin Harkin Martyrdom is held most dearly in Irish Republicanism. From Wolfe Tone to Bobby Sands, hundreds if not thousands of …
‘They were determined to obtain a sacrifice’: First Irish state executions of IRA members since the Civil War
By Gerard Shannon It was the night of 16 August 1940 and a worried Christy Quearney cycled through Dublin city’s southside. Quearney, …