The Tunnellers of Mountjoy,1923
By Christopher Lee. In 1923, after days of heavy rain the ground around the Mountjoy Prison blocks became sodden. An armoured car …
Podcast: The General Election of 1923
In August 1923 the Irish Free State had its first general election after the Irish Civil War. Cathal Brennan and John Dorney …
Podcast: The Army Mutiny of 1924
In the aftermath of the Irish Civil War, a section of disgruntled officers in the National Army of the Irish Free State …
Did Michael Collins order the killing of Henry Wilson?
By Ronan McGreevy The assassination of Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson MP was an event that I have called Ireland’s Sarajevo. Just …
‘They killed idealism in my soul’ – the end of the Irish Civil War
John Dorney If the Irish revolution began arguably with the Home Rule crisis of 1912-13, or perhaps with the Easter Rising of …
Podcast: Liam Lynch with Gerard Shannon
It is now 100 years ago that Liam Lynch, head of the anti-Treaty IRA was killed. Here we discuss lynch’s life and …
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 …