When the trade union leader Jim Larkin returned to Ireland in May 1923, he cut a very different shape from the revolutionary of a decade earlier and the excitement and agitation of the 1913 Lockout.
Regarded as a great soldier of Ireland even by his opponents in the Civil War, General Liam Lynch s death on April 10, 1923, is being commemorated with a new biography, art exhibition and parades with bands from Argentina and the US
At the conclusion of the inquest of Tomás MacCurtain on 17 April 1920, Chairman Coroner James McCabe thanked the jury for the great care and attention they had given the various witness interviews.
100 years ago on 14 April 1922 the anti-Treaty IRA occupied the Four Courts in the centre of Dublin. The pro-Treaty Free State Army, then being built up, had already occupied evacuated British Army.
The period after the narrow Dáil vote in favour of the Treaty in January 1922 saw division between the pro and anti-Treaty sides widening but also many efforts to maintain unity and to prevent arme.