The Great Irish Famine

A civil war is an imprecise thing, but the Irish Civil War wasn't the only conflict that could be described as such between 1918 and 1923. John Horne explains what makes it "the worst kind of war" - and how the Irish civil war fit in the wider context
No family were as promenient as the Ryans of Co Wexford during the War of Independence, but few were as bitterly divided by the aftermath
The guerrilla phase of the Irish Civil War was mirrored by furtive propagandist publications challenging the official narrative