Living for Ireland – An Irishman’s Diary on Arthur Griffith and the Cork hunger strike of November 1920

1919: a slow-burning start to the War of Independence

Although there were few casualties, the year marked a point of no return and made a confrontation between the British state and the Irish counterstate inevitable

Soloheadbeg: ‘Wicked’ beginning of the War of Independence

The ambush in the Tipperary town left two Royal Irish Constabulary constables dead

Michael Hopkinson: Historian who cast light on the Irish revolutionary decade

Hopkinson broke taboo on research into Irish Civil War

Diarmaid Ferriter: Michael Collins was no trail-blazing feminist

Collins wrote to Art O’Brien to express his disapproval about an intelligence operation that had been delegated to a woman