admin | October 7, 2011
A Book review by Padraig O’Ruairc. The Black & Tans: British Police and Auxiliaries in the Irish War of Independence, 1920 -1921. By David M. Leeson Oxford University Press Hardback £30 With the centenaries of the 1916 Rising and War of Independence fast approaching a whole raft of books of widely varying quality are being [...]
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admin | October 6, 2011
BOOK REVIEW - ”THE MUNSTER REPUBLIC:THE CIVIL WAR IN NORTH CORK” BY MICHAEL HARRINGTON “They had spent two years on the run fighting the might of the British army… The vast majority of the Volunteers were young men plucked from working on the land or from employment as clerks in offices or shops. Some of the officers [...]
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