#OTD in 1922 dark days in the Irish Civil War. The Dail passed a resolution giving the Army powers to execute prisoners after a summary miltiary trial. (Pic is of cabinet members at M.Collins funeral) www.theirishstory.com/2013/09/27/t...

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Brian Hanley tells the story of a man with a most unusual career: David Tormey: IRA Volunteer, Garda, Nazi. Irish rebel, policman, possible informer, pro Franco soldier in Spain and finally Nazi sympthiser @brian-hanley.bsky.social www.theirishstory.com/2024/11/16/d...

#OTD in 1920 the Black and Tans infamously burned the north Co Dublin town of Balbriggan. It was retaliation for the shooting of two RIC officers there by the IRA but became emblematic of the British policies of reprisals in Ireland www.theirishstory.com/2020/10/14/t...

The Civil War of 1922-23 played little part in the legend of IRA guerrilla leader Tom Barry. Partly because his role in it was fairly tortuous. As described in the artlce below. ‘A bad fight, a disgraceful fight’, Tom Barry in the Civil War www.theirishstory.com/2025/01/15/a...

The Fianna Fail govt of 1932 refused to pay the Land Annuities owed to Britain under the Anglo Irish Treaty. The British hoped to oust the de Valera government by economic pressure whichs sparked off a trade war only settled in 1938. Podcast here www.theirishstory.com/2025/05/21/p...

The siege of Drogheda was perhaps the most ferocious sacking of a town in Irish history. Up to 3000 Royalist and Catholic soldiers were killed by Cromwell's New Model Army and up to 700 civilians #OTD 1649 www.theirishstory.com/2011/09/11/t...

Podcast: The Desmond rebellions: The rebellions were the conflict of the House of Desmond, the Fitzgerald dynasty with the Elizabethan English state they ended with the destruction of the Earl of Desmond and the plantation of Munster. www.theirishstory.com/2023/12/04/p...

'It was in the northern province of Ulster that the final, most destructive and most decisive war between the Gaelic lords and the encroaching English state would be fought; the Nine Years War 1594-1603' www.theirishstory.com/2019/01/10/h...

‘An indelible imprint’ – Irish Penal Transportation to Australia www.theirishstory.com/2025/02/03/a...

Today in Irish History – August 31, 1913 – Labour’s Bloody Sunday Police baton charged a crowd on Dublin’s O’Connell Street after arresting union leader James Larkin www.theirishstory.com/2013/08/31/t...

Today in Irish History – August 22, 1922 – Béal na Bláth, The Shooting Of Michael Collins www.theirishstory.com/2018/08/22/t...

#OTD in 1922 The anti-Treaty IRA under Frank Aiken stormed Dundalk barracks, freeing 300 prisoners, capturing 200 pro-Treaty troops and large quantity of weapons. But Aiken was a reluctant participant in the Civil War and man who eventually ended it in 1923. www.theirishstory.com/2013/08/14/t...

On learning of his death sentence, Casement wrote to his barrister, George Gavan Duffy (30 June 1916): "...I shall bear your friendship with me as one of the precious gifts of God, given by Him to those whose hearts are faint and broken— cont'd below 1/2

The Hunger strike & General strike of 1920. Irish Republicans copied tactic of hunger strike from women’s suffragists. In April 1920 they used it to demand status of political prisoners. A general strike was called by labour demanding release of all prisoners www.theirishstory.com/2020/04/13/t...

#OTD , 9 August 1971, Internment is introduced in Northern Ireland. Unionist NI govt persuaded UK govt to use British Army to enforce internment in belief that it would crush burgeoning republican insurgency. It had the opposite effect. theirishstory.com/2012/08/10/t...

#OTD The decisive military stroke of the Irish Civil War, in which Free State troops were landed by sea at three points on the Cork coast, seizing Ireland's second city and collapsing the 'Munster republic' or territory held by the anti-Treaty IRA. www.theirishstory.com/2022/08/25/t...

Ok there've been a lot of technical problems with the website, but I'm happy to report that they are now fixed! Brand new hosting location and the site is now fast and sharp again! Lots of new content on the way shortly. Thanks for your patience. www.theirishstory.com

#OTD, August 3 1916 Roger Casement is Executed Casement made his name as humanitarian in service of British Empire but later turned against it. He went to Germany in WWI to try to secure intervention in Ireland & was arrested after landing in Kerry www.theirishstory.com/2016/08/03/t...

an extraordinary piece of public political theater. less than a year later the british army had to destroy much of the center of Dublin to suppress the Easter Rising and, well, all was changed, changed utterly

Today in 1915, the funeral of veteran Fenian bomber Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa. Patrick Pearse made the famous speech 'the fools, the fools, they think they have pacified Ireland... Ireland unfree shall never be at peace'. www.theirishstory.com/2015/08/01/t...

Mary MacSwiney and Harry Boland were in the US in 1921 in the context of the republican bond drive. They travelled back to Ireland together in August of that year, missing the first session of the second Dail. They respected each other as republicans and on a personal level were friends.

Folks, currently moving the site to a new location. It may be down for some time. But it will be back better! Thanks for your patience.

Today in Irish History, 31 July 1922 – Anti-Treatyite Harry Boland is killed, shot during arrest by pro-Treaty forces. Pictured here with previous good friend, Michael Collins. www.theirishstory.com/2018/07/31/t...

Sir Charles McCarthy, an officer from Cork in the French Royal Army, exiled by the revolution, became a British Governor in West Africa, eventually beheaded in a war with the Ashanti! Article here. theirishstory.com/2024/02/29/s...

‘Without Law or Justice’: Class conflict in the Irish border counties 1920-23. As state authority broke down in rural Ireland in 1920-21, a raft of social conflicts, both land and labour disputes, took on a violent intensity www.theirishstory.com/2019/04/17/w...

Today in Irish History – July 26th 1914 – The Howth Gun Running www.theirishstory.com/2014/07/26/t...

Today in Irish History – 21st July 1920: The Start of the “Belfast Pogrom” www.theirishstory.com/2020/07/20/t...

Article by @brian-hanley.bsky.social Hanley on events across Ireland in the long hot summer of 1935. July 1935: ‘Remember Belfast – Boycott the Orangemen!’ www.theirishstory.com/2013/01/07/j...

The Irish Volunteers of the Eighteenth Century: Successfully Importing the Gun into Irish politics. www.theirishstory.com/2024/04/16/t...

For the day that's in it, we delve into the history of the Twelfth, Battle of the Boyne and the Orange Order. www.theirishstory.com/2018/08/19/p...

#OTD July 11 1921, The Truce, the last day of the Irish War of Indpendence. A halt to all military operations on both sides is agreed for 12 noon. Pic shows a jubliant Arthur Griffith entering Dublin's Mansion House as Truce is declared. www.theirishstory.com/2011/07/11/t...

There were in fact Four ‘Bloody Sundays’ in 20th century Ireland. One of them took place #OTD July 10, in Belfast in 1921. In which, after an IRA ambush, rioting left 16 people dead and hundreds of houses destroyed as @drnightdub.bsky.social describes here www.theirishstory.com/2015/07/10/t...

"Hurling and Camogie - searching for the early medieval origins of Ireland's ancient games" Aidan O'Sullivan (2016) earlymedievalarchaeologyproject.wordpress.com/2016/09/02/h... #Hurling #Camogie #Medieval #Ireland #GAA

The Strange Case of Lord Massy and the Killakee shooting, July 1922. Murder, Michael Collins and the decline and fall of South Dublin Landlord family. By John Dorney www.theirishstory.com/2018/12/10/t...

A lot of backroom and convoluted negotations went on before a truce between Irish republicans and the British govt was reachedi n July 1921. Article on this here: ‘An unnecessary number of graves?’ – The road to the Truce of July 1921 www.theirishstory.com/2021/05/19/a...

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Podcast: Siege Warfare in 17th Century Ireland, with Padraig Lenihan. 17 C Ireland was a theatre of war and nowhere was this brought home to civilians more than in sieges. The cities of Galway, Limerick, Cork and Waterford were besieged repeatedly www.theirishstory.com/2020/05/07/p...

I thoroughly recommend this new podcast by @theirishstory.bsky.social on the Boer War. Got me thinking about how collective reprisals against civilian population were considered useful by the British army in its counter-insurgency campains. irishhistoryshow.ie/112-the-boer...

Overview of the conflict here www.theirishstory.com/2012/07/02/t...

Explainer on the Civil War here: www.theirishstory.com/2022/05/20/w...

This is absolutely superb 👏

Today in Irish History, 28 June 1922, the First Day of the Irish Civil War – Pro-Treaty forces bombard the Four courts in Dublin, kicking off nine months of internecine fighting between Irish nationalaists theirishstory.com/2017/06/28/t...

Podcast: The Boer War, with Spencer Jones www.theirishstory.com/2025/06/27/p...

Podcast: The Boer War, with Spencer Jones www.theirishstory.com/2025/06/27/p...

See also www.theirishstory.com/2013/12/06/i...

Really enjoyed recording this podcast with @historian1914.bsky.social on the Boer war 1899-1902 and Ireland's role in it. We discuss: Irish Brigades on both sides, Afrikaner nationalism, British empire in S Africa, guerrilla war, concentration camps and more. irishhistoryshow.ie/112-the-boer...

Literally just wrote about this on its anniversary. One of the last things I was writing for the Rory O'Connor book!

Today in 1922, two IRA members assassinated Field Marshal Henry Wilson in London, sparking the chain of events that led to the outbreak of Civil War in Ireland www.theirishstory.com/2020/06/22/t...

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