Those who want the country's so-called Triple Lock mechanism maintained as it is fear Ireland will move closer to joining in ...

After the bloodshed of the Irish ... War of Independence, is assassinated by IRA men in London. The British government tells the provisional government in Dublin that it must clear the anti ...

and in June a civil war broke out between pro-treaty and anti-treaty forces that would drag on for 11 months and cost the lives of many major players in the Irish independence movement.