Lieut-Colonel Hugh Montgomery was the highest ranked British agent to die, while Tipperary captain Michael Hogan was also captain of an IRA company

Backlash left IRA reeling and enhanced British intelligence. Then talk turned to truce

Lieut-Colonel Hugh Montgomery was the highest ranked British agent to die, while Tipperary captain Michael Hogan was also captain of an IRA company

12 regular assassins were assisted by part-timers for ‘jobs’ including Bloody Sunday

32 people were killed on Bloody Sunday, or died later of wounds received that day

Ceremony to take place on Saturday in a largely empty Croke Park due to Covid-19

An Irishman’s Diary

14 British officers were shot dead in Michael Collins’s bid to destroy ‘the undesirables’

The year saw the War of Independence begins in earnest with an escalation of murder and violence by the British and IRA

British attempts at propaganda were undermined by real images

A ‘battle’ in Tralee was restaged in Killiney, Dublin, and the photographs and Pathé news film were spread widely