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Ireland’s Wars: Pettigo And Belleek
The area in question was what was known as the “Belleek and Pettigo Triangle” or the rather more martial “Belleek and Pettigo Salient” if you prefer: a roughly 24km in length section of the Donegal/Fermanagh border near Lough Erne that … Continue reading
Posted in History, Ireland, Ireland's Wars, War
Tagged 1922, belleek, britain, british army, donegal, ira, ireland, irish civil war, national army, pettigo, provisional government, ric, usc, war
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Ireland’s Wars: The Northern Offensive
Behind every flashpoint in Ireland on the road to the Irish Civil War, every bit of violence taking place in isolated areas or the more eye-catching combat in urban centres, the situation in Northern Ireland still caught people’s attention. The … Continue reading
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Tagged 1922, aiken, anti-Treaty, belfast, britain, civil war, collins, derry, donegal, history, ira, ireland, lynch, newtowncunningham, northern ireland, pro-Treaty, ric, truce, usc, war
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Ireland’s Wars: Spring 1922 In Belfast
We have looked at the situation in Northern Ireland from a slightly more general perspective in the early months of 1922, with the new state struggling to define its relationship to the provisional government, and violence being a frequent result. … Continue reading
Posted in History, Ireland, Ireland's Wars, War
Tagged 1922, belfast, britain, churchill, collins, craig, history, ira, ireland, irish civil war, northern ireland, provisional government, ric, usc, war
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Ireland’s Wars: The Road To The Irish Civil War
We begin now what is called the truce period, that time between the coming into existence of the truce that ended the Irish War of Independence on the 11th July 1920, and the beginning of the Irish Civil War, generally … Continue reading
Posted in History, Ireland, Ireland's Wars, War
Tagged 1921, britain, collins, de valera, history, ira, ireland, irish civil war, lloyd george, o'duffy, ric, war
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Ireland’s Wars: A Summary Of The Irish War Of Independence
I hope, in the preceding section of entries, that I have been able to give something approximating a comprehensive picture to the Irish War of Independence. The two-and-a-half year conflict is a strange middle-child in the Irish revolutionary period in … Continue reading
Ireland’s Wars: Bloody Sunday (1921)
The events of this entry, and the events of the next, crossover rather directly with the culmination of the truce negotiations, which form an important backdrop to both. I will come to the truce in a few weeks, but felt … Continue reading
Posted in History, Ireland, Ireland's Wars, War
Tagged 1921, belfast, britain, hibernians, history, ira, ireland, ric, ulster, usc, war, war of independence
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Ireland’s Wars: Carrowkennedy
The war had less than two months to run at the beginning of June 1921, with the process of getting to the point of a truce already well underway. But the actual warfare was continuing, and in certain areas it … Continue reading
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Tagged 1921, black and tans, britain, history, ira, ireland, mayo, ric, war, war of independence
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Ireland’s Wars: The Custom House
The war in Ireland had reached its terminal stage. Throughout the country, though primarily in Cork, Dublin and parts of Ulster, the death toll had remained consistent, then skyrocketed. The electoral process that the British hoped would point the way … Continue reading
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Tagged 1921, auxiliaries, britain, custom house, de valera, dublin, history, ira, ireland, ric, war, war of independence
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Ireland’s Wars: Black Whitsun And The 1921 Elections
Throughout a large portion of the Irish War of Independence, the chosen political solution of the Lloyd George administration in London, was the Government of Ireland Act, which completed a torturous run through the legislature throughout 1920, and was ready … Continue reading
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Tagged 1921, black whitsun, britain, cork, dail, history, ira, ireland, northern ireland, ric, sinn fein, southern ireland, uup, war, war of independence
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Ireland’s Wars: Ulster In 1921
It has almost become a tired cliche on this site, but I will say it at least one more time: the Irish War of Independence in Ulster is an under-researched and under-noticed thing. In many of the history books and … Continue reading
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