The Irish War of IndependenceGill & Macmillan, 2002 - 274 pagine The Irish War of Independence was a sporadic guerrilla campaign which lasted from January 1919 until July 1921. The Irish Republican Army (IRA) attacked the forces of the British crown with the intention of breaking Britain's will to rule Ireland. This campaign paralleled the political efforts of Sinn Fein to create an independent Irish republic. |
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... effect on the popular consciousness . Neil Jordan's film Michael Collins ( 1997 ) has had a much more powerful effect than any scholarly work has done or is ever likely to do.3 To revise the traditional nationalist account of the ...
... effect on the popular consciousness . Neil Jordan's film Michael Collins ( 1997 ) has had a much more powerful effect than any scholarly work has done or is ever likely to do.3 To revise the traditional nationalist account of the ...
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... effect they had on public opinion and the headlines they generated rather than on the scale of the military conflict . The historian Charles Townshend has commented : ' The purely military effect of guerrilla warfare will usually be ...
... effect they had on public opinion and the headlines they generated rather than on the scale of the military conflict . The historian Charles Townshend has commented : ' The purely military effect of guerrilla warfare will usually be ...
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... effect of executing a young man on a day when every church in the country would be full to the doors several times over . The saying of Masses would be continued for six hours and more , creating a groundswell of public protest where ...
... effect of executing a young man on a day when every church in the country would be full to the doors several times over . The saying of Masses would be continued for six hours and more , creating a groundswell of public protest where ...
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Background to the Irish Revolution | 13 |
Outline of the War January 1919June 1920 | 27 |
British Administration 1919April 1920 | 33 |
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