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Battle of the Four Courts
The Irish Civil War began at around four o’clock in the morning
on June 28, 1922. An 18-pounder artillery piece began to fire
on the thick granite walls of the Four Courts – a beautiful
eighteenth-century complex of buildings that housed Ireland’s
highest legal tribunals.
Inside the courts a large party of IRA men were barricaded – a
clear sign that the treaty ending the war of independence would
never be accepted by passionate republicans. After three days of
fighting, with the buildings in ruins, the garrison surrendered.
But the Four Courts also housed Ireland’s historical archives,
and these irreplaceable documents were destroyed, with leaves of
burnt parchment raining down over the city. This was a cultural
disaster for the new state and its historical memory.
on June 28, 1922. An 18-pounder artillery piece began to fire
on the thick granite walls of the Four Courts – a beautiful
eighteenth-century complex of buildings that housed Ireland’s
highest legal tribunals.
Inside the courts a large party of IRA men were barricaded – a
clear sign that the treaty ending the war of independence would
never be accepted by passionate republicans. After three days of
fighting, with the buildings in ruins, the garrison surrendered.
But the Four Courts also housed Ireland’s historical archives,
and these irreplaceable documents were destroyed, with leaves of
burnt parchment raining down over the city. This was a cultural
disaster for the new state and its historical memory.
- GenresHistory
320 pages, Hardcover
Published November 1, 2018
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March 3, 2025
Great, reads like a novel. Very detailed military, political and architectural history about the start of the Irish civil war
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