It’s this methodology that helped spark O’Halpin’s interest in studying similarities between Ireland and Afghanistan’s struggles to cope with anomalous, British-imposed and maintained borders, for ...

As early as the Easter Rising, republicans had anticipated Ireland making a claim for the recognition of its independence at a post-war peace conference. Irish republicans had long sought to ...

A truce, which came into effect in July 1921, had halted the Irish War of Independence, and the Anglo-Irish Treaty agreed between the United Kingdom and negotiators from the Irish republican ...

during the years of the War of Independence as well. Irish accounts between 1918 and 1923, both first-hand and second-hand, indicated awareness of the social and political transformation of ...

educated at private school and Cambridge University and served in the British Army in the Boer War before becoming a committed supporter of Irish independence. He was part of the Irish delegation ...

that fought in the Irish War of Independence from 1919 to 1921 to free itself from the British. That war resulted in the UK-led partition of Ireland into two self-governing countries: Northern ...

A RENOWNED feminist historian has penned a new book on the untold story of Irish republican women involved in the 1916 Easter ...

Linking two conflicts usually narrated as separate stories, he shows how Irish nationalist support for Britain going to war in 1914 can only be understood in the context of the political fight for ...

Sinn Féin, the former political arm of the IRA, is hoping Ireland's 2024 election will bring it to power for the first time ...

The 1916 Easter Rising would eventually prove pivotal in Ireland's fight for independence, inspiring widespread public resistance during the Irish War of Independence between 1919 and 1921.