It’s this methodology that helped spark O’Halpin’s interest in studying similarities between Ireland and Afghanistan’s struggles to cope with anomalous, British-imposed and maintained borders, for ...

Ernest Blythe was born in 1889 into a unionist farming family with an 80-acre farm close to Magheragall, near Lisburn.

It was an “unspeakable war,” wrote one journalist, and “a story that nobody dared to tell.” But contrary to popular assumption, the tragic Irish Civil War of 1922-1923—a wrenching, destructive run-up ...

In the century following the Irish Civil War (1922-1923), monuments were erected across the country to honour those who lost their lives and different causes for which they died. There is nothing ...

O’Connor’s civil war had been a matter of weeks ... Anne Dolan is an Associate Professor of modern Irish history at Trinity College Dublin. Her most recent book (with William Murphy) is ...

About The Irish Civil War, how to watch, cast and FAQs. Three-part documentary telling the epic and often challenging story of the origins, conflict and legacy of the civil war that took place in ...

The legendary movie starring Cillian Murphy, The Wind that Shakes the Barley, was filmed in a number of locations - most of which you can visit in one day ...

His latest venture, The Informer, is a rare look at the Irish Civil War inspired by the 1925 novel by Liam O’Flaherty. “I had always wanted to do a play about the Civil War because there haven ...

Photo: National Library of Ireland There is a photo on the ­opening page of the introduction to Atlas of the Irish Civil War: New Perspectives, that tells a number of tales. Taken in Cork City in ...

‘No Middle Path: the Civil War in Kerry’ offers an engrossing account of some of the darkest days in Irish history Historian and Author Owen O'Shea with his latest book 'No Middle ...