Bloody Sunday 1920: Who were Michael Collins’s hit team ‘The Squad’?
12 regular assassins were assisted by part-timers for ‘jobs’ including Bloody Sunday
12 regular assassins were assisted by part-timers for ‘jobs’ including Bloody Sunday
Lieut-Colonel Hugh Montgomery was the highest ranked British agent to die, while Tipperary captain Michael Hogan was also captain of an IRA company
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
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
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices