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Ireland’s Wars: The IRA In The Late 1930s

Posted on Mar 1, 2022 by NFB

We have spent a number of entries discussing the Irish Free State’s, and then Ireland’s, internal politics and foreign relations, but now we must turn back to the case of paramilitary organisations within the confines of Ireland, namely the Irish … Continue reading →

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Ireland’s Wars: The League Of Nations

Posted on Feb 22, 2022 by NFB

With the establishment of the Irish Free State as a recognised entity that had control over most of its own government and external affairs, an Irish government now had the opportunity to take part in international relations on a formal … Continue reading →

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Ireland’s Wars: Fianna Fail And The IRA

Posted on Jan 18, 2022 by NFB

Fianna Fail were in power with Eamon de Valera as President of the Executive Council at the head of a cabinet of well know figures from the revolutionary period: Sean T. O’ Kelly as Vice-President, Sean Lemass as Minister of … Continue reading →

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Ireland’s Wars: 1923 After The Civil War

Posted on Dec 7, 2021 by NFB

The Irish Civil War is traditionally taken as ending on the 24th May 1923 when the new IRA Chief Of Staff Frank Aiken issued orders for the IRA is stop their operations. The republicans did not fully admit that they … Continue reading →

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Ireland’s Wars: Final Thoughts On The Irish Revolutionary Period

Posted on Nov 23, 2021 by NFB

In the course of the last 150+ entries (studies of Irish history tend to be top heavy with study of this period, and now I understand why), we have covered what is dubbed the “Irish revolutionary period”, that section of … Continue reading →

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Ireland’s Wars: A Summary Of The Irish Civil War

Posted on Nov 16, 2021 by NFB

The Irish Civil War can be a difficult one to approach. It was a strange conflict in many respects: a mixture of regular fighting and guerrilla warfare, fought to its most significant degree only in a few select areas of … Continue reading →

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Ireland’s Wars: Lynch’s Death And The End Of The Irish Civil War

Posted on Nov 9, 2021 by NFB

In many ways, the Irish Civil War was all but over when 1923 began. By that time the IRA’s ability to wage the kind of war that would have been needed to topple the new Free State was all but … Continue reading →

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Ireland’s Wars: Britain And The United States In The Irish Civil War

Posted on Nov 2, 2021 by NFB

It is generally recognised nowadays that Great Britain got more of what they wanted from the Anglo-Irish Treaty than the Irish representatives did. In it was an essential recognition of partition, the inclusion of the Irish Free State inside the … Continue reading →

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Ireland’s Wars: The Civil War In Northern Ireland

Posted on Oct 26, 2021 by NFB

It has long been the case that the north of Ireland received a disproportionately little amount of attention in terms of historical study of the Irish revolutionary period. This seems especially strange in the context of the War of Independence, … Continue reading →

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Ireland’s Wars: Ballyseedy And The March Massacres

Posted on Oct 19, 2021 by NFB

Civil wars tend to have a particularly brutal edge to them. That’s something I believe that I have talked about before in the context of conflicts fought in other places, but it was true in Ireland as well. The somewhat … Continue reading →

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