The Leinster Regiment and the Malabar rebellion of 1921—‘another Irish question’

By Terry Dunne On 20 August 1921 a band of Irishmen were making a fighting retreat in south-west India at the start of the Malabar rebellion. They were men from […]

‘Who is for the Empire and who is for the Republic?’—the 1921 elections to the Northern Ireland parliament

By Elaine Callinan In April 1921 Éamon de Valera outlined a scheme for Sinn Féin propaganda against partition and against a unionist victory for seats in the new Northern Ireland […]

‘We English protest’—Margaret Buckmaster’s peace crusade

By Eugene Dunphy By late 1920, liberal-minded English men and women had grown weary of hearing daily reports from Ireland about the thuggish behaviour of the Black and Tans and […]

The rebel priests of Mullagh—Fr Pat Gaynor, Fr Michael McKenna and the War of Independence

By Áine Hensey In Freedom and the Fifth Commandment: Catholic priests and political violence in Ireland, 1920–21, Brian Heffernan describes the considerable diversity of opinion that existed among Irish Catholic […]

The Fenian plot to kill the future King George V

By Dean Jobb They wore workmen’s clothing, making them indistinguishable from the thousands of Irish newcomers in search of jobs in Nova Scotia’s mines or building its railways. James Holmes, […]