The legendary movie starring Cillian Murphy, The Wind that Shakes the Barley, was filmed in a number of locations - most of ...
British-imposed and maintained borders, for example, 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 ...
As an independent investigation into a double agent named ‘Stakeknife’ draws to a close, families seeking answers may soon ...
During the South African War of 1899-1902 ... beginning with the Irish Volunteers before the British army. Dalton rose rapidly in the IRA and carried out the daring but failed raid on Mountjoy ...
All the while, the influence of John Redmond and his Irish Parliamentary Party was on the wane. Their difficulties were almost all war-induced. It didn’t help that the British War Office ...
‘L et Ireland go, with God’s blessing and a shake of the hand’, wrote Jerome K. Jerome in May 1920. This was a crucial year ...
Rising, the British cracked down on Irish nationalists with brutal efficiency. Martial law was declared, rebels were executed without trial, and the people of Ireland watched in shock.
Chamberlain hoped that if these matters were dealt with, Anglo-Irish relations would improve and Éire would assist Britain if a war broke out.
Northern Ireland risks being dragged into Donald Trump’s trade war with the EU because of Britain’s “botched” Brexit deal ...
Manuela Perteghella described her Political Donations Bill as one ‘that will take big money out of British politics’.