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'Make the terror behind greater than the terror in front'? Internal discipline, forced participation, and the I.R.A., 1919–21 (pre-published version)
(Cambridge University Press, 2018)
This article will explore two relatively neglected features of the Irish Republican Army’s (I.R.A.) guerrilla war between 1919 and 1921: internal discipline and forced participation. The gravest disciplinary measure was ...
Loyalists and loyalism in a southern Irish community, 1921– 22 (pre-published version)
(Cambridge University Press, 2016)
A second Irish Grants Committee met for the first time in October 1926 to deal with claims for compensation from distressed southern Irish loyalists. By the time it had ceased its work, the committee had dealt with over ...
Defying the IRA? Intimidation, coercion, and communities during the Irish Revolution
(Liverpool University Press, 2016)
Survival and assimilation: loyalism in the interwar Irish Free State (Pre-published version)
(Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022-12-03)
In 1997, historian R. B. McDowell suggested that when “compared to the thorough
methods for dealing with unpopular minorities … in eastern and central Europe and
elsewhere, the harassment of loyalists was not notably ...
The Southern Irish Loyalists Relief Association and Irish ex-servicemen of the First World War, 1922–1932 (Pre-published version)
(Routledge, 2023-08-20)
In 1925, the Southern Irish Loyalists Relief Association (SILRA), originally founded for the relief of southern Irish loyalist refugees in Britain, created a fund for ex-servicemen resident in the Irish Free State (IFS). ...
Contested memories: revisiting the battle of Mount Street Bridge, 1916
(British Journal for Military History, 2017)
The Battle of Mount Street Bridge, 26 April 1916, was the most successful rebel military engagement of the 1916 Easter Rising in
Dublin. Though it accounted for something in the region of half of the total British casualties ...
The disbanded Royal Irish Constabulary and forced migration, 1922–31
(2022-04-08)
This article concerns the men of the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) who were disbanded from the force in 1922 and felt obliged to leave Ireland for Britain. Afforded unique – if not always entirely sufficient – financial ...