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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 Irtish 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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Ireland’s Wars: 1923 In Kerry

Posted on Oct 12, 2021 by NFB

The Irish Civil War, in 1923, was drawing to a close. The IRA’s ability to maintain its guerrilla struggle was being suppressed all over the country, and only in a few select areas could it be said that it was … Continue reading →

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Ireland’s Wars: The Civil War In 1923

Posted on Oct 5, 2021 by NFB

When 1923 dawned, the newly born Irish Free State could look forward with increased optimism. They had control over the vast majority of the country, and had the allegiance, given freely or coerced, of the majority of the population. The … Continue reading →

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Ireland’s Wars: Tom Barry’s Anti-Treaty Days

Posted on Sep 28, 2021 by NFB

I mentioned in the last entry that the anti-Treaty side was one with a surfeit of badly needed personalities. This may seem like a tawdry thing to say, but it is a fact that guerrilla struggles, perhaps more than any … Continue reading →

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Ireland’s Wars: The Civil War On The Railways

Posted on Sep 21, 2021 by NFB

As discussed, by the end of 1922 the anti-Treaty war effort was in a dire state. The IRA’s weaknesses were becoming manifest, and the strengths of their pro-Treaty opponents also. The opportunities for the republicans to strike effectively at the … Continue reading →

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