admin | January 10, 2012
IRISH WAR OF INDEPENDENCE EXHIBITION DISPLAY & LECTURE The Irish Volunteer Commemorative Organisation is happy to announce an exhibition, lecture and display over 2 days on Saturday and Sunday, March 3rd and 4th, 2012. The event opens each morning at 10:00 am and ends at 6:00 pm. The event will take place at the Best [...]
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Tags: author of the excellent book “The War of Independence in Limerick 1912-1921”., Irish volunteers.org exhibition in Limerick city, IRISH WAR OF INDEPENDENCE EXHIBITION DISPLAY & LECTURE Limerick city, Irishvolunteers.org, Tom Toomey
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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Tags: 1920 -1921. By David M. Leeson, David M. Leeson Oxford University Press, Lakeside Hotel at Killaloe in Clare, R.I.C., The Auxiliary Division Royal Irish Constabulary 1920 -1922, The Black & Tans: British Police and Auxiliaries in the Irish War of Independence, Thomas Mannion an I.R.A. officer from Dunmore
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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admin | March 25, 2011
Nial Meehan has contacted us and has pointed us to an article he wrote some time ago,in fact the first review of the book, thank you for submitting the article to us , his words are below: My review of Gerard Murphy’s The Year of Disappearances: Niall Meehan, 17th November 2010 Gerard Murphy’s ‘The Year [...]
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Tags: 1916-1923, Gerard Murphy's The Year of Disappearances, Harris and Myers, IRA, Niall Meehan, Peter Hart who pioneered the republican sectarianism argument, Political Killings in Cork, The IRA and its Enemies: violence and community in Cork, Third West Cork Flying Column leader Tom Barry
admin | March 20, 2011
De Valera was an English spy? By Padrig O Ruairc. Book Review:- “England’s Greatest Spy – Eamonn De Valera.” By John J. Turi. Published by Stacey International, London 2009. ISBN 978 – 1 – 906768-09-6 Last week I stumbled across the above book, in O Mahony’s Bookshop, Limerick. I was completely unaware of the radio [...]
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Tags: “England’s Greatest Spy – Eamonn De Valera.” By John J. Turi, anti-Treaty republicans, Cathal Brugha, Countess Marcivictz was a coward, De Valera, De Valera was an English spy?, Eoin Mc Neill’s countermanding order, Erskine Childers, I.R.A., Irish civil war, Kilmainham Jail, Michael Collins, Oscar Tranor the leader of the I.R.A.’s Dublin brigade, Sean Hales, Tim Pat Coogan
admin | March 12, 2011
An article by Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc , Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc challenges the claims in Gerard Murphy’s recent book, The Year of Disappearances. Political Killings in Cork 1921 – 1922. Professor Eunan O’ Halpin of Trinity College, was prophetic in his endorsement of Gerard Murphy’s recent book, The Year of Disappearances. Political Killings in Cork [...]
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Tags: (Ernie O’Malley Military Notebooks U.C.D. Archives P17b/112 p. 126), Blood On The Banner – The Republican Struggle in Clare and The Battle For Limerick City, Gerard Murphy author, I.R.A., IRA veteran, murdered protestants in cork, protestant killings in cork, suspected British spies by the I.R.A, The Year of Disappearances. Political Killings in Cork 1921 – 1922.