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  1. The effect of this is to create great lack of confidence on our side amounting to grave suspicion. Essential that action be taken immediately otherwise situation will become impossible." 3/3

    #IrishHistory #Ireland #MichaelCollins #IrishCivilWar #OnThisDay

  2. In the telegram from Collins to Churchill he wrote:

    "We are hampered by the continued lack of material. We were promised two hundred rounds of high explosive at two AM this morning but they were not available. This ammunition was again promised for five thirty and again not available. The promise was renewed for eight thirty with like result. 2/

    #IrishHistory #Ireland #MichaelCollins #IrishCivilWar #OnThisDay

  3. On 29 June 1922 Michael Collins sent a telegram to Winston Churchill begging for more military aid to fight the IRA, complaining he was promised 'two hundred rounds of high explosives' from the British to use against the anti-Treaty Irish Republican Army. 1/

    #IrishHistory #Ireland #MichaelCollins #IrishCivilWar #OnThisDay

  4. 28 June 1922 was the First Day of the Irish Civil War. The anti-treaty forces occupied the Four Courts. On Michael Collin's orders the bombardment of he building by Provisional Government troops started on 28 June. The building was stormed and the anti-treaty troops surrendered on 30 June. The war lasted until 24 May 1923. 1,200 to 1,400 troops and more than 425 civilians died in the war, often brutally.

    #Ireland #IrishHistory #IrishCivilWar #Dublin #FourCourts #OnThisDay

  5. ON 27th December 1969 Dan Breen died. He was an IRA leader during the War of Independence and the Civil War. Breen was born in Grange, Donohill parish, County Tipperary. His father died when he was six, leaving the family very poor. In January 1927, he became the first anti-Treaty TD to take the Oath of Allegiance and sit in the Dáil Éireann after the establishment of the Irish Free State.

    #OnThisDay #Ireland #IrishHistory #DanBreen #IrishWarofIndependence #IrishCivilWar

  6. Michael Collins died on 22 August 1922 in an ambush at Béal na Bláth, County Cork. After his death Collins lay in state for three days. Tens of thousands of mourners filed past his coffin to pay their respects, including many British soldiers departing Ireland who had fought against him. Some 500,000 people attended his funeral mass in Dublin, almost one fifth of the country's population at that time.

    #Ireland #IrishHistory #IrishCivilWar #MichaelCollins #BéalNaBláth #CountyCork #OnThisDay

  7. 28 June 1922 was the First Day of the Irish Civil War. The anti-treaty forces occupied the Four Courts. On Michael Collin's orders the bombardment of he building by Provisional Government troops started on 28 June. The building was stormed and the ant- treaty surrendered on 30 June. The war lasted until 24 May 1923. 1,200 to 1,400 troops died in the war, often brutally.

    #Ireland #IrishHistory #IrishCivilWar #Dublin #FourCourts #OnThisDay

  8. 28 June 1922 was the First Day of the Irish Civil War. The anti-treaty forces occupied the Four Courts. On Michael Collin's orders the bombardment of he building by Provisional Government troops started on 28 June. The building was stormed and the ant- treaty surrendered on 30 June. The war lasted until 24 May 1923. 1,200 to 1,400 troops died in the war, often brutally.

    #Ireland #IrishHistory #IrishCivilWar #Dublin #FourCourts #OnThisDay

  9. CW: Irish Civil War and gendered violence

    Civil War violence against women was ‘brutal, persistent and continuous’ my interview with Barry Roche about violence against women, particularly in Kerry where it was deeply misogynistic and vicious, during the Irish Civil War #irishwmnhist #irishcivilwar #histodons #mastodaoine

    irishtimes.com/history/century

  10. Recordings of the recent Kerry Civil War Conference - anyone who missed the #civilwarinkerry conference - the recordings of all three keynotes, and all six panels plus the round table are available here

    kerrycivilwarconference.ie/rec

    #irishcivilwar #irishwmnhist #decadeofcentenaries #histodons #mastodaoine

  11. Recordings of the recent Kerry Civil War Conference - anyone who missed the #civilwarinkerry conference - the recordings of all three keynotes, and all six panels plus the round table are available here

    kerrycivilwarconference.ie/rec

    #irishcivilwar #irishwmnhist #decadeofcentenaries #histodons #mastodaoine

  12. Recordings of the recent Kerry Civil War Conference - anyone who missed the #civilwarinkerry conference - the recordings of all three keynotes, and all six panels plus the round table are available here

    kerrycivilwarconference.ie/rec

    #irishcivilwar #irishwmnhist #decadeofcentenaries #histodons #mastodaoine

  13. Recordings of the recent Kerry Civil War Conference - anyone who missed the #civilwarinkerry conference - the recordings of all three keynotes, and all six panels plus the round table are available here

    kerrycivilwarconference.ie/rec

    #irishcivilwar #irishwmnhist #decadeofcentenaries #histodons #mastodaoine

  14. Recordings of the recent Kerry Civil War Conference - anyone who missed the #civilwarinkerry conference - the recordings of all three keynotes, and all six panels plus the round table are available here

    kerrycivilwarconference.ie/rec

    #irishcivilwar #irishwmnhist #decadeofcentenaries #histodons #mastodaoine

  15. A moving and evocative portrayal of Stephen Fuller, sole survivor of the #Ballyseedy Massacre of 1923
    Accounts tell of the women who cared for him picking the gravel and shrapnel from his back for weeks
    The Mise, le Meas' exhibition runs at @siamsatire until 1 March
    #irishcivilwar #mastodaoine #decadeofcentenaries

  16. News of Deputy Seán Hales' assassination as he left the Dáil in Dublin #OTD 1922 reported in French paper 'Le Temps'

    Also reports of anti-Treaty force attack on national army troops in #Cork and news from #Belfast's new parliament

    Source: gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6 #IrishCivilWar #IrishFreeState #newspaperarchives