On this day, Jan 2, 1920, recruitment began for the Black and Tans, Britain’s unofficial auxiliary army during the Irish War of Independence. The Black and Tans first arrived in Ireland on March ...

during the years of the War of Independence as well. Irish accounts between 1918 and 1923, both first-hand and second-hand, indicated awareness of the social and political transformation of ...

After the bloodshed of the Irish War of Independence, which raged from January 1919 to July 1921, hopes were high that the Anglo-Irish Treaty would bring peace to Ireland. The treaty, which ...

A truce, which came into effect in July 1921, had halted the Irish War of Independence, and the Anglo-Irish Treaty agreed between the United Kingdom and negotiators from the Irish republican ...

Fianna Fáil TD Robert Briscoe denied “emphatically” that the people of Ireland or any government of Ireland, are, or have ...

or the political violence precipitating the Irish Civil War of 1922-1923—the subject of his Burns Scholar Lecture on March 2 at 5:30 p.m. in the Burns Library Thompson Room. A collaboration between ...

As waves of Scots Presbyterians migrated to Antrim in the 17th century, the native Irish were pushed into the ... She remained active until the end of the Civil War, dying in poverty in 1936.

IRELAND during the period 1913–1923 was a nation in constant flux.

Historian Dr Margaret Ward, QUB, talks to RTÉ’s Bryan Dobson about the various roles that women played during the Irish war of independence. This is an excerpt from an interview filmed by ...

To try to achieve independence, the new Sinn Féin MPs refused to take their seats (abstained) at Westminster in London. This was known as the Anglo-Irish War and was a very violent conflict.