March 2023

Proclamation of the Irish Republic 24 April 1916The Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB) decided soon after the start of World War I that a rising should occur in Ireland to overthrow British rule before the war was over. For this enterprise the IRB sought German assistance and infiltrated the leadership of the Irish Volunteers, a military […]

Patrick Kavanagh and Dr Hilda Moriarty “On Raglan Road on an Autumn Day,I saw her first and knewThat her dark hair would weave a snareThat I may one day rue” Everyone in Ireland must know or at least of heard the song based on the 1946 poet by Patrick Kavanagh. But few know the story

The 1921 Anglo-Irish Treaty(Irish: An Conradh Angla-Éireannach), commonly known in Ireland as The Treaty and officially the Articles of Agreement for a Treaty Between GreatBritain and Ireland, was an agreement between the government ofthe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and representatives ofthe Irish Republic that concluded the Irish War of Independence.It provided for

The 1921 Anglo-Irish Treaty (Irish: An Conradh Angla-Éireannach), commonly known in Ireland as The Treaty and officially the Articles of Agreement for a Treaty Between Great Britain and Ireland, was an agreement between the government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and representatives of the Irish Republic that concluded the Irish War of Independence. It provided for the establishment of the Irish Free