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Endgame 1921: Towards Truce and Treaty in Ireland

Endgame 1921: Towards Truce and Treaty in Ireland
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100 YEARS AGO: Darkness before the Dawn in last weeks of War of Independence in Kildare

100 YEARS AGO: Darkness before the Dawn in last weeks of War of Independence in Kildare
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Ireland s forever wars

Ireland s forever wars Last November, Irish politics were convulsed by a triumphalist tweet from Brian Stanley, a Sinn Féin member of the Irish Dáil. He hailed the centenary of the Kilmichael ambush of 28 November 1920, where 16 Auxiliary members of the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) were killed by Republican forces during the Anglo-Irish War, and for good measure also celebrated the killing of 18 British soldiers at Warrenpoint by the Provisional IRA in August 1979. Stanley linked the incidents as “IRA operations that taught the British elite the cost of occupying Ireland”, and jeered that the latter were handicapped by being “slow learners”.

A century on, what was Ireland s partition & why does it still matter?

Just a hundred years ago, on May 3, 1921, Ireland was partitioned as an act passed by the British Parliament came into effect. The 1920 Government of Ireland Act created two separate entities: Northern and Southern Ireland. The bill s original intention was to keep both under British rule but things did not quite go as planned. 26 of the island s 32 counties broke free from the United Kingdom to form an independent, Catholic-majority country which is known today as the Republic of Ireland. Six predominantly Protestant counties in the north stayed British. A century later, Ireland is still split and the legacy of 1921 has endured.

TV tonight: Julien Temple turns his lens on Shane MacGowan

TV tonight: Julien Temple turns his lens on Shane MacGowan
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