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Updated / Thursday, 25 Feb 2021
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In the second episode of the Machnamh 100 Series, President Michael D. Higgins hosts a public seminar recalling significant events that took place in Ireland a century ago.
The seminar, entitled Empire: Instincts, Interests, Power and Resistance , reflects on the context, consequences and continuing reverberations of the War of Independence, Civil War and Partition.
Leading scholars have been invited to share their insights and thoughts on the motivations and practices of the British Empire as they affected Ireland, in a world that was in flux following the World War.
From 1937 to 1950 the Irish government granted political asylum to a number of European minority nationalists, many of whom were wanted for crimes of collaboration with Axis forces during the Second World War. Bretons, Basques, Scots, Flemings even a high-ranking Croat later dubbed the Yugoslav Himmler all found temporary or permanent refuge in Ireland. Refuge Ireland reveals for the first time why Dublin sheltered fugitives who had so disastrously regarded Nazi invasion as their nationalist opportunity. Employing unpublished sources and personal accounts, Daniel Leach explores the role of political asylum in asserting Irish sovereignty, Catholic anti-Communism and revolutionary heritage, and exposes a previously hidden and controversial chapter of Irish and European history one which, through the continued actions of postwar and even modern exiles, continues to affect Ireland s reputation to this day. A well-researched, coherently argued and clearly written piece of work which comb
How 1920 was one of the bloodiest years in Irish history
Updated / Thursday, 17 Dec 2020
12:32
Analysis: a new book measures the human cost of Ireland s revolutionary years by cataloguing and analysing the deaths of 2,850 people
At the end of December 1920, Thomas Gilmartin, archbishop of Tuam, reflected bitterly on the year that was drawing to a close. He lamented that instead of peace, there was war, murder and reprisals; instead of order, there was disorder, vengeance and destruction; instead of content, there was grave fear, insecurity and heartbreak. The archbishop prayed for all the victims of this troubled time, without distinction, and that God would deliver the diocese from murder, attempted murder, arson and terrorism.
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