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In the second part of our episode on violence against women during the Irish War of Independence we look sexual violence and why it was grossly underreported during the period.
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In the first of a two part episode we explore violence against women during the Irish War of Independence.
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In this episode we interrogate the relationship between the IRA and the Irish public. From farmers happily donating their hard earned cash to informers shot and left as a warning for others, people across Ireland interacted with the IRA in very different ways.
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In this episode we explore how the violence War of Independence ramped up in 1921 and explore how one safe house in Clonmult turned out to be anything but safe.
The image from this episode is borrowed from The Battle of Clonmult by Tom O'Neil.
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In this episode Eamon de Valera finally returns to Ireland and we look at the effect this had on the movement...
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In today's episode we look at the very first tentative steps towards a truce. Spoiler alert, it all falls a part and paves the way for bloodiest months of the entire conflict.
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In this episode drunken arsons come face to face with courageous fire fighters in one of the most cataclysmic reprisals of the war. It really did act as a violent full stop to 1920.
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We are back people! After a little bit of a Christmas break we're ready and raring to go. In this episode we take a detailed look at how a bunch of 20 something year old's from Cork wiped out what was meant to be one of the British forces most elite unites.
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In this the last of our series on Bloody Sunday 1920 we look at what happened in Dublin Castle on the evening of the 21st, try and uncover who of the IRA's targets were actually guilty and examine the wider effects of Bloody Sunday on The Irish War of Independence.
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Today we look at one of the most brutal reprisals carried out by the British so far in the War of Independence. One that left a distinct mark on the GAA and shook Dublin to its very core.
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