Irish rebels ambushed a British army column in a remote part of Cork called Kilmichael on November 28, 1920, during Ireland's War of Independence. The British soldiers were based on the nearby ...
Irish Republican Army This topic contains articles relating to the original IRA from the time of the Irish War of Independence (1919-1921). It also covers later paramilitary organisations that ...
this was the issue on which peace or war hinged. The Irish Free State was to be a part of the British Empire and this would, more than anything else, split the independence movement that had ...