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The statue of an Irish-born US general who directed the worst massacre of Native Americans in history has been removed from a Utah university and quietly placed instead in a corner of a military museum garden. The revelation came as part of a documentary on the life of General Patrick Edward...

On 24 May 1923 Frank Aiken, Chief of Staff of the Old IRA, ordered a ceasefire. Anti-Treaty fighters were to "dump their arms" and return home. Éamon De Valera supported the order, issuing a statement to Anti-Treaty fighters: "Further sacrifice on your part would now be in vain and the...

On this day 100 years ago the Ballyseedy Massacre took place. 9 Anti-Treaty IRA prisoners were tied to a mine by Free State soldiers and were blown up. Eight were killed and the ninth, Stephen Fuller, was blown clear into a ditch and survived...

On this day 100 years ago Michael Collins, Commander in Chief of the Free State Army, was killed in ambush at Béal na Bláth in County Cork. Michael Collins had been the main driving force within the IRA that had helped to fight the War of Independence against the British Crown Forces in...