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May 8, 2023 • 23 tweets • 6 min read
Mulling over article for a long time on Irish republicanism and its intellectual roots in 17th century English thought. But for now here's a thread on historical relationship with English monarchy. Pic is John II the first king of England to claim lordship over Ireland in 1171. Image John II landed in Ireland originally to put manners on independent warlord Richard de Clare ('Strongbow'), who was being a bit too successful as mercenary in Ireland. John also had Papal Bull to intervene in Ireland, the 'Laudabiliter', to 'correct' religious errors. Image
Nov 24, 2022 • 37 tweets • 10 min read
Erskine Childers, executed #OTD 100 years ago Nov 24, 1922, by the Irish Free State. A thread. Childers came from a landed, Protestant family in County Wicklow, his first cousin and close friend Robert Barton also came from this family. Childers himself was born in London, however. In the 19C the family's politics were unionist and Imperialist.
Nov 23, 2022 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Stormed by Free State troops in July 1922 and quite badly damaged by artillery. Image The previous fort on site also stormed by Cromwell's New Model Army in 1649. with rather more loss of life. Cromwell allowed the Royalist defenders of Millmount fort to surrender but then had them executed 'knocked on the head' anyway. theirishstory.com/2011/09/11/tod… Image
Nov 28, 2020 • 19 tweets • 5 min read
Today in Irish History, November 28 1920 – The Kilmichael ambush – #Kilmichael100 Tom Barry's IRA column wiped out a patrol of Auxiliaries. A vicious close quarter fight ad this article discusses. theirishstory.com/2014/11/28/tod… (Excuse the typo above!) Tom Barry, beyond the legend, was quite a contradictory character. He was the son of a policeman, who joined the British Army in WWI (when he served in the Royal Artillery in Mesopotamia (Iraq) against the Ottoman Turks.
Nov 27, 2020 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Really interesting new article on the site by @swgannon: The Green Frame of British Rule?’ – Irish in the Indian Civil Service: theirishstory.com/2020/11/27/the… Basically in the late 19th century, careers in the Indian Civil Service became a very attractive career path for middle class young men in Ireland, both Catholic and Protestant.
Nov 26, 2020 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Delighted to announce this. Taking place next Tues, Dec 7 at 7 pm. Register here: bit.ly/33haBxY Also check out @EamonDelaney10 's review: THERE will be many books on the Irish independence movement in the run-up to the 1916 centenary, and beyond, but it would be hard to do better than this as a succinct and clear assessment of those years. independent.ie/entertainment/…
Sep 16, 2020 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
Whisper it softly, but Oliver Cromwell and his role in Irish history is actually not understood very well at all in Ireland. The best summing up is in John Cunningham's book Conquest and Land in Ireland – The Transplantation to Connacht 1649-1680.
theirishstory.com/2012/03/04/boo… Cromwell came in at the tail end of a brutal war in Ireland; the Eleven Years War. He was in Ireland for less than a year, and was here essentially to defeat a coalition of Royalist & Catholic forces on behalf of English Parliament theirishstory.com/2014/01/10/the…