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The Irish Free State executed thirty-four anti-treaty republican prisoners in January 1923; to put this figure into context, the British authorities executed twenty-four Irish republican prisoners between November 1920 and

One hundred years ago tonight, Castlehackett House, near Tuam, was burned by the anti-treaty IRA. Historian Terence Dooley has noted that there was a dramatic increase in the numbers of

On Saturday 3 December 2022, Galway City Museum ran a short talk series on the subject of the new exhibition, ‘War of Friends, 1922–23: the civil war story of Pádraic

In November 2022, Galway City Museum took part in an all-island project, ‘Poetry as Commemoration’, in which participants, under the expert guidance of poet Gerry Hanberry, responded creatively to local

Galway City Museum is delighted to announce the opening of a new exhibition that explores the century-old, civil war tragedy, that saw the shooting of Pádraic Ó Máille and the

On 24 September 1922, anti-treaty IRA Lieutenant John ‘Jack’ Lohan of Wood Quay was shot and killed by the Free State Army near McHugh’s public house at Killeen, on the

On 22 August 1922, one hundred years ago today, Irish revolutionary leader Michael Collins was killed in a Republican ambush in his native west Cork. Though just 31 years of

On 12 August 1922, one hundred years ago today, Arthur Griffith – nationalist editor and journalist, founder of Sinn Féin, lead negotiator of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, and President of Dáil

This week’s Collections Spotlight, for the week that’s in it, is a ticket for admittance to the Hogan Stand, Croke Park for the 1964 All-Ireland Football Final, Galway versus Kerry