Irish Republican Army

The action takes place in flashback, from the viewpoint of an old woman, Miranda Martin, dying after a life whose promise was snuffed out by violence during the Irish Civil War. She speaks in the...

After IRA death threats against BM 's father , her mother took her children from Ireland to Sweden for two years, after which the parents decided on London as a permanent home.

BM 's father, Simon Spiro , a Lithuanian by birth, had emigrated with his family to Ireland well before the end of the nineteenth century. In Cork he became a prosperous, large-scale shop-keeper (selling cigars...

Her daughter quotes from the radio play a passage about a child listening at night to the noises made by an IRA crowd in the street: the singing and cheering . . . . an...

DM 's paternal grandparents lived in a happy-go-lucky poverty, without any self-pity, in a house full of books. Her grandfather Murphy, or Pappa, had permanently damaged his health by going on hunger-strike in order...

In March 1944 DM 's family gave sanctuary for a fortnight to Pat, otherwise known as Charles Kerins , a young IRA man who had shot a detective-sergeant in Dublin. He had been passed...

The Irish DM had difficulty trying to correct the local opinions on Northern Ireland: ironically, the fiercely anti-Russian Romanians implicitly believed the Soviet depiction of the IRA as freedom fighters and Northern Ireland as another...

The production and reception of this text was heavily influenced by the political climate of the time. EOB 's preparations for writing it included interviewing Dominic McGlinchey , the imprisoned former leader of the INLA...

Eleanor Hibbert (or JP ) woke at 1.20 a.m. to a noise which sounded like a bomb going off. She later found that the IRA bomb outside Harrods had exploded (killing six people) exactly twelve...

ES produced this book under very difficult conditions: unrestrained conflict between Irish Republican forces and the dreaded Black and Tans . All the bridges had been broken around Skibbereen (the nearest town to her house,...

KT greeted with optimism the truce that ended fighting between the Irish Republican Army and British troops in Ireland. Never was so happy a country, she wrote.

This truce was a step towards the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty on 6 December 1921 (ratified by the Dail on 7 January 1922), which made southern Ireland a Free State or Dominion with a...

She barely mentions her husband or her extreme feelings of loss she felt at his death. She spends more time discussing her children in this volume than in any before: she writes of her sons...