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

It is #Monday, time for a new chapter of "Strengths"

https://archiveofourown.org/works/48775423/chapters/124899589

In "The Fire Inside" we switch again to Lix's POV after Randall left the cave.

Alex sure stirred a few old memories, not pleasant ones.

Resonating with Sean Tyrrell's beautiful version of "Rising of the Moon"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEDU4matGPU

#AmWriting #WiP #WritingCommunity #SpanishCivilWar #IrishCivilWar

@DoctorMonkey2 @floofpaldi @doctorwanderer @justdan @EvelynCold @QuokkaMocha

Violence against women during the #IrishCivilWar

Some examples:
• Teacher shot at and wounded
• Waitress shot at and wounded
• Young girl found behind wall gagged and chloroformed
• 21-year-old found gagged and beaten 'into insensibility'

Documents chosen by Niamh Jordan, Project Archivist, UCDA

#IrishHistory Podcast: The Road to War - How the #IrishCivilWar Started #Ireland
https://shows.acast.com/irishhistory/episodes/the-road-to-war-how-the-irish-civil-war-started

On 29th 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.

#IrishHistory #Ireland #MichaelCollins #IrishCivilWar #OnThisDay

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

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

https://www.irishtimes.com/history/century/2023/06/11/civil-war-violence-against-women-brutal-persistent-and-continuous/

What might surprise some in these references for people who fought in the Tan War is how open "the other side" in the Civil War are generally to giving references for those who took an opposing side #IrishCivilWar

'En Irlande' - French newspaper article #OTD 1923 (Havas) - messages from Eamon de Valera + Frank Aiken seized by Free State authorities

'Irish republican organisation demolished and no hope of it being re-established'

Source: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k261551r/f2 @GallicaBnF
#irishcivilwar

American newspaper headlines #OTD 1923 announce the end of the Irish Civil War

📰 'De Valera calls halt in Irish hostilities'

📰 'Devalera asks followers to quit struggle'

Source: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov #ChronAm #irishcivilwar #newspaperarchives #archives

'Irish rebel says stop fighting' - headline from the 'Alaska Daily Empire' #OTD 1923

De Valera's message to IRA: "laying arms aside now is an act of patriotism as exalted as and as pure as your valour in taking them up"

Source: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84020657/1923-05-28/ed-1/seq-1/ #CronAm #IrishCivilWar

NEW PODCAST OUT NOW**
'Memorialising the Civil War'
How was the Civil War memorialized—by both sides? Who won the ‘memory war’?

HI ed, Tommy Graham with Conor Dodd, @JohnDorney2, @MaryMcAuliffe4 & @CaitWhite19

https://www.historyireland.com/podcast-channel/ #mastodaoine #histodons #irishcivilwar

Absolutely thrilled that #TheWomanOnTheBridge has gone into the Irish bestseller list at No 5 this week. Proud to share the shelves with these fabulous authors! #HistoricalFiction #IrishWarOfIndependence #IrishCivilWar

If you’re looking for something to read this weekend my historical novel #TheWomanOnTheBridge is out now. Based on my grandmother’s life it’s set during the #irishwarofindependence and #irishcivilwar Although the setting is quite different from my contemporary novels, it’s still a book about people finding in er strength in unexpected circumstances. I’m really proud of it!

Sheila O’Flanagan: my Irish Times piece about the background to #TheWomanOnTheBridge #novel #irishwarofindependence #irishcivilwar

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/2023/05/04/sheila-oflanagan-over-tea-at-the-gresham-gran-would-tell-me-about-bowsies-and-blackguards-checkpoints-and-raids/

Tonight's episode of #thesilentcivilwar is now available to view here via @RTEplayer
Very honoured to have been part of the gripping documentary https://www.rte.ie/player/series/the-silent-civil-war-s1-e1/10001642-00-0000?epguid=IP000068007 #irishcivilwar #irishhistoy #histodons #mastodaoine

Women played an important (if often overlooked) part in the Revolutionary period. @MaryMcAuliffe4 writes about Nan Hogan from Cratloe in Co. Clare whose relations contributed to @civilwarmemory project #irishcivilwar #irishhistory #mastodaoine
https://www.rte.ie/history/the-silent-civil-war/2023/0412/1376594-nan-hogan-a-revolutionary-life/

Irish Civil War is headline news for American newspapers #OTD 1923:

* Irish Rebel Chief is Captured

* End of Erin's Civil War Seems in Sight

* Big Irish Rebel is Captured

Stories re Eamon de Valera and Liam Lynch

all from https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov #ChronAm #IrishCivilWar

Groundbreaking Irish Civil War conference now available to view online in full #irishhistory #decadeofcentenaries #mastodaoine #histodons #irishcivilwar @Centenaries @KerryLibrary @DeptCulturelRL @histodons
https://www.independent.ie/regionals/kerryman/news/groundbreaking-irish-civil-war-conference-now-available-to-view-online-in-full-42383207.html

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

https://kerrycivilwarconference.ie/recordings/

#irishcivilwar #irishwmnhist #decadeofcentenaries #histodons #mastodaoine