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Truce: Murder, Myth and the Last Days of the Irish War of Independence

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ISBN: 9781781173855
AuthorOg O Ruairc, Padraig
Pub Date22/01/2016
BindingPaperback
Pages384
CountryIRL
Dewey941.50821
Quick overview A robust analysis of the three days between the announcement and the implementation of the Truce that counters the myths and propaganda invented by some politicians, historians and newspaper columnists in an attempt to rewrite Irish history.
€19.19

On 8 July 1921 a Truce between the IRA and British forces in Ireland was announced, to begin three days later. However, in those three days at least sixty people from both sides of the conflict were killed. In 'Truce', Padraig Og O Ruairc goes back to the facts to reveal what actually happened in those three bloody days, and why.

* What sparked Belfast's 'Bloody Sunday' in 1921, the worst bout of sectarian violence in Northern Ireland's troubled history?
* Why were four unarmed British soldiers kidnapped and killed by the IRA in Cork just hours before the ceasefire began?
* Who murdered Margaret Keogh, a young Dublin rebel, in cold blood on her own doorstep?
* Were the last spies shot by the IRA really working for British intelligence or just the victims of anti-Protestant bigotry?

This book answers these questions for the first time and separates fact from fiction to find out what really happened in the final battles between the IRA and the British forces.

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On 8 July 1921 a Truce between the IRA and British forces in Ireland was announced, to begin three days later. However, in those three days at least sixty people from both sides of the conflict were killed. In 'Truce', Padraig Og O Ruairc goes back to the facts to reveal what actually happened in those three bloody days, and why.

* What sparked Belfast's 'Bloody Sunday' in 1921, the worst bout of sectarian violence in Northern Ireland's troubled history?
* Why were four unarmed British soldiers kidnapped and killed by the IRA in Cork just hours before the ceasefire began?
* Who murdered Margaret Keogh, a young Dublin rebel, in cold blood on her own doorstep?
* Were the last spies shot by the IRA really working for British intelligence or just the victims of anti-Protestant bigotry?

This book answers these questions for the first time and separates fact from fiction to find out what really happened in the final battles between the IRA and the British forces.

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