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Mortally wounded #Onthisday 1923, Liam Lynch, chief of staff of the IRA, during the #IrishCivilWar www.youtube.com/watch?v=BG3r...

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Born #Onthisday 1880 in Ballinadee, Bandon #Cork Irish Volunteer & TD Sean Hales who was assassinated during the #IrishCivilWar more @IrishHistoryPod
irishhistoryshow.ie/32-the-assas... B&W📷Irish Independent

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From #Glasnevin Cemetery in #Dublin, the grave of #MichaelCollins. One of the great fighters for #IrishIndependence, but killed during the following #IrishCivilWar.

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#KilmainhamGaol, where many Irish were brutalized (and executed) political prisoners both before 1916's #EasterUprising and during the #IrishCivilWar that followed soon after.

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“There is as yet no adequate study [re] the role of the British secret service in [igniting] the #IrishCivilWar
- John M Feehan
The Assassination of Michael Collins : What Happened at Béal na mBláth? goo.gl/a0tgOr #Irish #Ireland #IrishHistory #History #IrishResearch

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The real reasons Michael Collins signed the #Treaty21
“The Treaty of Limerick is wiped out.. The Union is wiped out..
Complete ntl freedom is ours & nobody but ourselves can prevent it."
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#Irish #Ireland #IrishHistory #History #IrishCivilWar #IrishResearch

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Michael Collins, starring Hunter the Beagle

Michael Collins, starring Hunter the Beagle

#NowShowing: #MichaelCollins
Another #Irish movie, usually I wait till closer to #StPatricksDay but I'm on an Irish kick early this year #HunterTheBeagle approves. ☘️
#CouchPotato #SofaSpud #IrishHistory #EasterUprising #IrishCivilWar #CouchColcannon #beagle #film #filmsky #moviesky

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A deep division in Irish society opened up on #ThisDayInHistory in 1922, when the #DáilÉireann ratified the #AngloIrishTreaty by 64–57. The #IrishCivilWar that began in June was launched by the opposing faction. Ireland's three main political parties descend from these factions.

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#Christmas 1916 #Irish prisoners interned without trial following the #EasterRising released. Among them are Michael Collins, Arthur Griffith
#Ireland #IrishHistory #History #IrishCivilWar

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“To me it would have been a criminal act to refuse to allow the #Irish Nation to give its opinion.. whether [to] accept [the AngloIrishTreaty1921 ] or resume hostilities.”
wp.me/p43KWx-68 # #Treaty21 #Ireland #IrishHistory #History #IrishCivilWar #IrishResearch

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On #ThisDayInHistory in 1922, just two days after taking power in #Ireland, the #IrishFreeState executed, without trial, four #IrishRepublicanArmy leaders from the anti-treaty side in the #IrishCivilWar. Alphabetically: #DickBarrett, #JoeMcKelvey, #LiamMellows, and #RoryOConnor.

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On #ThisDayInHistory in 1922, the #IrishFreeState executed nine men, including novelist #ErskineChilders (who was killed for owning a pistol while being Protestant). Free State executed at ~3x the rate of the UK during the independence war, contributing to the #IrishCivilWar.

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#HistoryBookChat

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Kerry civil war book

Kerry civil war book

Arrived in the post this morning - delighted to have published this collection of essays from our 2023 Kerry civil war conference - the decade of centenaries keeps on giving! Available from Four Courts Press www.fourcourtspress.ie/books/2025/t... #history #speirgorm #irishcivilwar

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Coming to a bookstore near you in October 2025…

From Bullets to Ballots: Politics and Electioneering in Post-Civil War Kerry, 1923–33 by Owen O’Shea

🔗 Preorder here bit.ly/From-B2B

#IrishCivilWar #CivilWarPolitics #IrishHistory #KerryHistory @owenoshea.bsky.social

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University College Dublin Press Online Bookshop University College Dublin Press: Publishers of the best contemporary non-fiction writing. Peer-reviewed for academic excellence.

🔗 Pick up a copy at www.ucdpress.ie or bookstores nationwide

#JohnRedmond #IrishPolitics #AngloIrish #IrishCivilWar #WW1 #IrishHistory

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The machine gunner was one of those physically closest to #MichaelCollins during the fatal ambush.
Would you buy a used car from this face? wp.me/p43KWx-bo
The Assassination of Michael Collins : What Happened at Béal na mBlath? #Ireland #IrishHistory #IrishCivilWar

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Did Michael Collins have to go to West Cork? Diplomacy and provisional governments If Commander-in-Chief Collins were negotiating peace when he was shot, that is directly connected with the fact that he didn’t have a nice, quiet 10 Downing Street at which to hold his confer…

Maybe the only chance left for Michael Collins to prevent imminent national disaster, was to take his life in his hands, into the wild back roads of West Cork; now.
wp.me/p43KWx-id #Irish #Ireland #IrishHistory #History #IrishCivilWar #IrishResearch

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Did Michael Collins have to go to West Cork? Diplomacy and provisional governments If Commander-in-Chief Collins were negotiating peace when he was shot, that is directly connected with the fact that he didn’t have a nice, quiet 10 Downing Street at which to hold his confer…

In the early days of the #IrishCivilWar Michael Collins didn’t have a nice, quiet 10 Downing St for peace talks with anti-Treaty leaders; who couldn't have gone there, as men on the run, at war with gvt. wp.me/p43KWx-id #Irish #Ireland #IrishHistory #History

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The Assassination of Michael Collins: What Happened at Béal na mBláth? The Assassination of Michael Collins: What Happened at Béal na mBláth? [Sigerson, S M] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Assassination of Michael Collins: What Happened at Béal na mBláth?

#OTD 1922 Was the #IrishCivilWar ultimately incited by British gvt agendas to eliminate the #Irish independence movement’s top military leaders?
The Assassination of Michael Collins : What Happened at Béal na mBláth? goo.gl/a0tgOr
#Ireland #IrishHistory #History. #IrishResearch

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Michael Collins: His Last Journey Much controversy continues to surround Commander-in-Chief Collins’ last day on earth.  In these excerpts from “The Assassination of Michael Collins: What Happened at Beal na mBlath?&#82…

#OTD 1922: The few basic facts which are undisputed about The Assassination of Michael Collins : What Happened at Béal na mBláth? collinsassassination.wordpress.com/2024/08/21/m... #Irish #Ireland #IrishHistory #History #IrishCivilWar

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#OnThisDay 1922 #MichaelCollins shot dead at #BealnaBlath #WestCork #IrishCivilWar - here he is as best man at Violet Gore & Paddy O'Donoghue's wedding 18 June 1919 B&W📸Irish Post

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Michael Collins: His Last Journey Much controversy continues to surround Commander-in-Chief Collins’ last day on earth.  In these excerpts from “The Assassination of Michael Collins: What Happened at Beal na mBlath?&#82…

The few basic facts which are undisputed about The Assassination of Michael Collins : What Happened at Béal na mBláth? collinsassassination.wordpress.com/2024/08/21/m... #IrishResearch #Ireland #IrishHistory #History #IrishCivilWar

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Annual #MichaelCollins Commemoration Sunday Aug 24thwww.generalmichaelcollins.com/annual-beal-na-mblath-co...
#Irish #Ireland #IrishHistory #History #IrishCivilWar

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Michael Collins Biography: A Hero’s Fight for Irish Freedom Michael Collins biography tracing his rise, battles, and legacy in Ireland’s fight for freedom through Coogan’s powerful account.

Collins signed the Anglo-Irish Treaty in 1921. He knew it could cost his life. Eight months later, he was shot dead.
#IrishCivilWar #BiographyBooks
👉 https://smpl.is/ab190

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The promise was renewed for eight thirty with like result. The effect of this is to create great lack of confidence on our side amounting to grave suspicion. Essential that action be taken immediately otherwise situation will become impossible." 3/3

#IrishHistory #MichaelCollins #IrishCivilWar

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Did Dalton shell the Four Courts? Notices should be served on the armed men in the illegal occupation of the Four Courts and Fowler Hall that night, ordering them to evacuate the buildings and to surrender up all arms and property,…

#OTD 1922 If Michael Collins did NOT order the bombardment of the #FourCourts garrison, who did?
collinsassassination.wordpress.com/2025/06/28/d...
#IrishCivilWar #Irish #Ireland #IrishHistory #History

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The war lasted until 24 May 1923. 1,200 to 1,400 troops and more than 425 civilians died in the war, often brutally. 2/2

#Ireland #IrishHistory #IrishCivilWar #Dublin #FourCourts #OnThisDay

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The bombardment of Four Courts: Who gave the order? Did Michael Collins give the order to begin the bombardment of Four Courts? Historians have presumed so; but no more. The evidence casts considerable doubt as to whether the order ever came from Co…

#OTD 1922 Death of Sir Henry Wilson turned the Pact Elections peace into factions. Dublin & London gvts demanded Michael Collins take decisive action against the #FourCourts anti-Treaty occupation.
wp.me/p43KWx-7o #IrishHistory #History #IrishCivilWar

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The Assassination of Michael Collins: What Happened at Béal na mBláth? The Assassination of Michael Collins: What Happened at Béal na mBláth? [Sigerson, S M] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Assassination of Michael Collins: What Happened at Béal na mBláth?

#OTD June 1922 Just when #IrishCivilWar seemed averted, the shooting of Sir Henry Wilson changed everything.
London woukd DEMAND Dublin gvt attack anti-Treaty partisans in the #FourCourts or face British invasion. goo.gl/a0tgOr #IrishHistory

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