Lorcan Collins: Ireland’s War of Independence 1919-21: The IRA’s Guerrilla Campaign [2019] hardback WCLAS Through them he learns the

Through them he learns the art of war

and the prose burns up the page

In reality

Even the European colonial powers at the height of their power could not move past coastal enclaves

a masterly survey not so much of the events of Irish history over the past four centuries as of the way in which those events acted upon the peoples living in Ireland to produce in our own time an "Irish Nation"

Lorcan Collins: Ireland’s War of Independence 1919-21: The IRA’s Guerrilla Campaign [2019] hardback WCLAS Through them he learns theAn accessible overview of Ireland's War of Independence, 1919 21. From the first shooting of RIC constables in Soloheadbeg, Co Tipperary, on 21 January 1919 to the truce in July 1921, the IRA carried out a huge range of attacks on all levels of British rule in Ireland. There are stories of humanity, such as the British soldiers who helped three IRA men escape from prison or the members of the British Army who mutinied in India after hearing about the