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Belfast republicans and the Treaty split of 1922: Part 2
Part 1 of this post looked at the split in the Belfast IRA over the Treaty and the violence in the city between the two factions. Here, the focus switches to those who stayed with the pro-Treaty GHQ in Dublin and participated in the Civil War.
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Belfast republicans and the Treaty split of 1922: Part 1
In August, I was part of a discussion panel at Féile in Belfast that looked at “The Aftermath of the Civil War in Belfast.” Here, I look at how unity among Belfast Republicans was shattered in 1922.
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The IRA spy who joined the Specials
There was widespread mistrust of the RIC among unionists. To what extent were their suspicions well-founded? This blog post examines the divided loyalties of some members of the RIC in Belfast.
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Who was responsible for the killings?
The fog of war and chaos of rioting do not completely obscure who carried out the killings in Belfast during the Pogrom. This blog post explores the extent to which responsibility for those killings can be attributed.
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The changing nature of killings during the Pogrom: Part 2 – combatants
Following on from the review of civilians’ deaths, this post examines how the the killings of combatants varied over the course of the Pogrom.
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The changing nature of killings during the Pogrom: Part 1 – civilians
The latest update of The Dead of the Belfast Pogrom established that 501 people died as a result of the political and sectarian violence to which the city was subjected from July 1920 to October 1922. This blog post examines how the nature of the killings changed over the course of that period.
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The Dead of the Belfast Pogrom – updated
This blog post originally appeared as two articles on www.theirishstory.com, the first in October 2020, with an addendum following in January 2022. Here, those two articles are merged and, on the basis of additional research conducted since, the information has been updated. The total number of dead now stands at 500.
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“All fairy tales”
The IRA’s Northern Offensive, May 1922 – Part 4. The final instalment in this series of blog posts looks at how the northern and southern governments responded to the offensive.
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“Only called off at the last moment because of some man’s intervention”
The IRA’s Northern Offensive, May 1922 – Part 3. The third in this series of blog posts examines how the plan drawn up in April 1922 was – and was not – carried out from May onwards.
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“Belfast City to be held up – Republican troops to occupy positions in sufficient strength to hold same”
The IRA’s Northern Offensive, May 1922 – Part 2. The second in this series of blog posts looks at what the planning and preparations for the Northern Offensive entailed.
The Belfast Pogrom 