The Royal Navy in the War of Independence

The IRA attack on Fenit coastguard station and RIC barracks in June 1920. BY DAIRE BRUNICARDI In most of the many accounts and histories of the Irish War of Independence very little, if any, mention is made of the navy. The navy, the ‘silent service’, then, as now, was ‘out of sight, out of mind’, ... Read more

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