or the political violence precipitating the Irish Civil War of 1922-1923—the subject of his Burns Scholar Lecture on March 2 at 5:30 p.m. in the Burns Library Thompson Room. A collaboration between ...
But there was bitter division among Irish republicans over a number of aspects of the treaty, including an oath to the King and the new state's place within the empire. Civil war broke out as a ...
The execution of anti-Treaty IRA fighters by the new Irish Free State during the Irish Civil War remains one of the most infamous aspects of the 11-month conflict. The executions began a century ...