Compensating for the Rising: the papers of the Property Losses (Ireland) Committee, 1916

Several hundred uncatalogued claims made by householders and business-owners between May and August 1916 have recently been discovered in the National Archives. Typically, each claim is organised into a pro-forma […]

‘The North began’ . . . but when The formation of the Ulster Volunteer Force

On 25 November 1913, at the Rotunda Rink in Dublin, the Irish Volunteers were formed, with 3,000 men enrolling that evening. For the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) there is no […]

Unseemly demarcation disputes

Throughout most of 1913 it was rather difficult for the police and Ulster unionists themselves to define the difference between UVF units proper and Unionist Clubs that were drilling with […]

Irish Bulletin a full reprint of the official newspaper of Dáil Éireann, giving news and war reports—Volume I 12th July 1919 to 1st May 1920

The Irish Bulletin was a fact-sheet published by the Dáil government between 1919 and 1921 and circulated to opinion-formers outside Ireland to publicise repressive actions of Crown forces directed by […]

Dublin 1916 and the French connection

‘What was to unfold in Ireland, between 1911 and 1921’, writes W.J. McCormack, ‘was effectively an ideological battle to fill the cheap places, to draw the lower middle class into […]