The Irish Civil War—a military analysis
At the outbreak of the Irish Civil War in June 1922 the anti-Treaty IRA numbered some 15,000, holding key positions in Dublin and throughout the country, in particular behind a defensive line running ...
14 Okt 20221h 15min
What if Michael Collins had survived the Civil War?
This Hege School was recorded at the Electric Picnic 2022 immediately after Paddy Cullivan's historical entertainment, 'The Murder of Michael Collins'. Details here www.paddycullivan.com. On 22 Augus...
16 Sep 202254min
Unmanageable Revolutionaries—women in the ‘decade of centenaries’
It is nearly 40 years since Margaret Ward’s pioneering Unmanageable Revolutionaries: Women and Irish Nationalism, 1880-1980 (1983) first appeared. How has women’s history, and history written by women...
13 Sep 20221h
Michael Collins—man and myth
Born in West Cork in 1890, Michael Collins joined the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB) as a teenager while working as a clerk in London. He fought in the GPO in 1916, and rose to prominence by the W...
22 Aug 20221h 12min
Arthur Griffith, ‘father of us all’
So said Michael Collins, yet despite his central role in the development of the Irish nationalism from which the Irish State would emerge, Arthur Griffith has had to settle for a side-line role in the...
12 Aug 20221h 20min
The life and times of Harry Boland
One of the most engaging figures of the revolutionary period, Harry Boland, along with his brother Gerry, joined the IRB in 1904 and participated in the 1916 Rising. He was centrally involved in the s...
5 Aug 20221h 11min
The assassination of Sir Henry Wilson and the Irish Civil War
On 22 June 1922 Field Marshall Sir Henry Wilson, former Chief of the Imperial General Staff, and Unionist MP for North Down, was assassinated outside his London home in Eaton Square. The anti-Treaty I...
22 Jun 20221h 13min
The ‘Belleek/Pettigo triangle’, May/June 1922
As part of the so-called ‘Northern Offensive’, on 27 May 1922, a combined force of pro-Treaty National Army and anti-Treaty IRA occupied the ‘Belleek/Pettigo triangle’, an enclave of Fermanagh/Norther...
3 Jun 202255min
