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

by Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc

Overview

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', Pádraig Óg Ó 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781781173862
Publisher:	Mercier Press, Limited, The
Publication date:	01/22/2016
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	384
File size:	920 KB

About the Author

Padraig Óg Ó Ruairc has a PhD in History from the University of Limerick. He has written several books on the Irish revolutionary period. His last book 'Revolution' was shortlisted in the Best Irish Published Book category in the 2011 Irish Book Awards. He works for the OPW in Limerick and is very active in the Irish history community online.
Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc, originally from Co. Clare, lives in Co. Cork and works for the OPW. He has published extensively on the revolution in Ireland, most notably 'Revolution: A Photographic History of Revolutionary Ireland 1913–23'.

Read an Excerpt

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', Pádraig Óg Ó 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.