The Government of Ireland Act 1920—100 years of partition
Originally conceived as a ‘temporary’ amendment to the Third Home Rule Act, on the statute book since 1914, the 1920 Government of Ireland Act was presciently derided by the Freeman’s Journal as ‘the ...
1 Des 20201h 7min
History, Memory and Bloody Sunday 1920
The events of Sunday 21 November 1920 are well named. Within fifteen hours on that fateful day, 32 people died: in the morning, eleven British intelligence officers killed by Michael Collins’s ‘squad’...
18 Nov 20201h 6min
Belfast and the North 1920-22
As the War of Independence raged in southern Ireland a different type and more deadly form of conflict erupted in the northeast, and in Belfast in particular. Should this be considered part of the ove...
9 Nov 202056min
Bloody Sunday 1920—the Tipperary Connection
Founded in Thurles in 1884, the GAA has had a long association with Tipperary, an association intensified by the events of Bloody Sunday, 21 November 1920, when Crown forces attacked a Dublin vs Tippe...
2 Nov 20201h 11min
Commemorating Bloody Sunday in the Junior Cycle history classroom
In the early morning of Sunday 21 November 1920 units of Dublin’s IRA assassinated 11 suspected British intelligence agents; two Auxiliaries and two civilians were also killed. That afternoon Crown fo...
30 Okt 20201h
The West’s awake!–Revolution in Roscommon 1916-1921
Roscommon was one of the first counties to reflect the ‘utter change’ of the post-1916 period, with the election of the first Sinn Féin-backed MP in February 1917; in less than two years that party wo...
27 Okt 20201h 23min
‘In Mountjoy Jail one Monday morning…’—the Irish Revolution in ballad and song
Kevin Barry is one of the most popular, and certainly one of the most sung, of Irish ballads. But who was Kevin Barry? Why was he immortalized in song? And what has been the significance of the ballad...
16 Okt 20201h 16min
'Eye of the storm?’—Dublin and the War of Independence
Seat of Crown administration since the twelfth century, and still bearing the physical scars of the 1916 Rising, during the War of Independence Dublin was also GHQ of the IRA and the location of the u...
29 Sep 20201h 26min
