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At the end of June 1921, British Prime Minister Lloyd George wrote to Éamon de Valera, President of Dáil Éireann, inviting him to attend a London conference to explore the

The 24 June is the Christian feast of the birth of St John the Baptist, a wayfaring Jewish preacher and prophet in the first century AD, who is revered as

Today, the third Sunday of May, is National Famine Commemoration Day, which remembers the Great Famine (An Gorta Mór) of the late 1840s, one of the most tragic events in

In the early hours of 11 May 1921, masked men deliberately shot dead seventeen-year-old Christy Folan and injured his brother, Joe, while searching their family home at Woodquay, Galway for

Before daybreak on 23 April 1921, the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) attempted to raid the home of Pádraic Ó Máille at Munterowen East, in the Maam Valley, Co. Galway, where

One hundred years ago today, on 23 March 1921, Louis D’Arcy was arrested at Oranmore railway station, while on his way to see Michael Collins in Dublin. Aged just 23,

One hundred years ago today, on 14 March 1921, Thomas Whelan (22) of Clifden, Co. Galway was hanged in Dublin’s Mountjoy gaol. Whelan had been convicted of the killing of

In the early hours of 20 February 1921, John Geoghegan of Moycullen – a Sinn Féin member of Galway Rural District Council and Quartermaster of the East Connemara Brigade, Irish

IRA volunteers from the 2nd Battalion (Claregalway, Annaghdown and Kilcoona) of the Mid-Galway Brigade at Killeen Castle, Castlegar, 1921. Approximately one third of the men in the photograph participated in