It was an “unspeakable war,” wrote one journalist, and “a story that nobody dared to tell.” But contrary to popular assumption, the tragic Irish Civil War of 1922-1923—a wrenching, destructive run-up ...

¹ In 1936 he summed up his civil war: ‘there were two armies in 1922 ... Anne Dolan is an Associate Professor of modern Irish history at Trinity College Dublin. Her most recent book (with ...