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by Bruce Gaston • 7 November 2012

We’re on Pinterest now, under the url http://pinterest.com/irishhistory (“irishhistorycompressed” being – according to the website – too long for a name. This is the same problem as Twitter has, which partly explains the lack of an Irish History Compressed Twitter…

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Just published: the Irish History Compressed ebook

by Bruce Gaston • 1 November 2012

Irish History Compressed, a short narrative overview of Ireland’s history from its beginnings to the modern day, is now available for download from Amazon’s Kindle Store. Further ebook formats will follow shortly. Click here to purchase Irish History Compressed on…

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Biographies

Reposted: Michael Collins: a short biography

by Bruce Gaston • 27 October 2012

Michael Collins was born in County Cork on 16 October 1890, and worked as a young man for several years in London, where he joined the secret society, the Irish Republican Brotherhood. After returning to Ireland in 1915 he fought…

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Biographies

Reposted: Éamon de Valera: a short biography

by Bruce Gaston • 25 October 2012

Éamon De Valera was born 14 October 1882 in New York to a Cuban father and an Irish mother, but returned to live with relatives in Bruree, County Limerick, as a small child. He studied mathematics and worked as a…

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Significant dates

The Bombardment of the Four Courts and the beginning of the Irish Civil War, 28 June 1922

by Bruce Gaston • 30 September 2012

On this day ninety years ago, the newly formed army of the Irish Free State opened cannon fire upon the Four Courts, a large neoclassical building dominating the quayside in central Dublin. Their aim? To dislodge former colleagues from the…

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General

Reposted: The Bombardment of the Four Courts, 28 June 1922

by Bruce Gaston • 30 September 2012

I decided to repost some content I wrote for other sites. Here’s the first, about the starting point of the Irish Civil War. (First posted here.)

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