irish civil war

Current Archaeology
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An Irish Civil War Dugout: Tormore Cave, County Sligo – Archaeology, History, Memory

REVIEW BY DAMIAN SHIELS This book takes as its focus the archaeological excavation of a remote mountain cave used as an IRA hideout in 1922, a location described by the authors as a ‘Civil War time capsule’. The project was…

Military History
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Between Two Hells: the Irish Civil War

I am always perplexed by political commentators who suggest that the possibility of Northern Ireland being reunited with Éire or Scotland becoming independent as a result of Brexit puts us in ‘uncharted waters’, and that the Union has never faced…