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...

A woman named Finn, under interrogation for assisting the IRA , recalls a traumatic event from her past: the political turmoil of 1969 which took her grandmother's life. The recovered memory raises questions about Finn's...

AD grew up in Northern Ireland but has been living in England since 1976, driven away, she said, by levels of violence that caused me to be afraid. Her family heritage is Catholic ...

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...

Sean MacBride's Irish nationalist politics led him into a career as a journalist, politician, lawyer, and eventually human rights activist. Having lied about his age when still in his teens to graduate from the youth...

Patrick Joseph (Paddy) Devlin was a socialist politician. At the age of eleven he joined the IRA , and he was sent to prison for three years in his youth. While serving time he came...

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...

CD gave Roebuck House in Clonskeagh (south Dublin) to Maud Gonne, and moved there with her in later 1921. The house was popular with IRA men on the run and was subject to frequent police...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

In the long, agonising, and ultimately successful struggle for independence MG was again strenuously active in Ireland. She supported political prisoners and those condemned to execution, and worked with Charlotte Despard for the Irish White Cross

SH dates his first, ignorant, encounter with history from the time that as a very small child he met American soldiers who were stationed nearby and training for the imminent Normandy landings of June 1944...