Northern Ireland in 1922
While an uneasy peace prevailed in the South following the Truce of July 1921, in Northern Ireland communal violence continued to rage, exemplified most notoriously on 24 March 1922 by the killings of...
24 Mars 20221h 17min
‘We English protest’—anti-colonial solidarity in the metropole
So said the long white apron of suffragette and socialist Margaret Buckmaster at a protest in July 1921 organised by the Peace with Ireland Council (PIC). How significant were such anti-colonial solid...
11 Mars 202255min
A Century of An Garda Síochána
When the Civic Guard—later renamed An Garda Síochána—was founded in February 1922, the force it replaced, the Royal Irish Constabulary, was itself barely a century old. How much of the culture of the ...
25 Feb 20221h 17min
Centenary of the Irish Race Congress, Paris, 21-28 January 1922
Within weeks of the ratification of the Treaty by Dáil Éireann an ‘Irish Race Congress’ assembled in Paris representing Irish organizations from twenty-two countries. Inevitably the Treaty split overs...
21 Jan 202254min
‘Dublin Castle has fallen!’—the handover, 16 January 1922
Under the terms of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, a Provisional Government, led by Michael Collins, was to oversee the transition of power until the Irish Free State formally came into being in December 1922...
16 Jan 20221h 13min
Robert Barton—forgotten man of the Irish revolution?
Of the five plenipotentiaries who signed the Anglo-Irish Treaty on 6 December 1921 most attention has been focused on the motivations and actions of Michael Collins and Arthur Griffith—and on ‘the ple...
31 Dec 20211h 6min
Dev and the Banner 1917–1926
On 10 July 1917 Eamon de Valera won a by-election in East Clare, one of a series of victories for Sinn Féin in the run-up to their landslide victory in the general election of December 1918. He would ...
17 Dec 20211h 3min
Pandemics then and now—a reassessment of the 1918 flu in the light of Covid
As we enter the third year of the Covid crisis, people the world over are now familiar with the concept and the reality of a ‘pandemic’. But how does it compare and with the previous pandemic—the ‘Spa...
14 Dec 202155min
