Overview
As the Paris Peace Conference opens with promises of hope for the small nations of the world, the inaugural session of the Dail Eireann, in Dublin, adopts a Declaration of Independence from Great Britain, and, in Tipperary, Irish volunteers murder two constables.The War of Independence begins as the world searches for peace, and Ireland's fate in the British Empire takes center stage. Irish Lives and Times, The War of Independence, is an anthology of selected articles from Irish newspapers from January 20, 1919 to March 20, 1920 that reveals the daily record of events as the people and the country are violently propelled towards freedom and independence.
- | Author: Gerald Reilly
- | Publisher: Raleigh Press
- | Publication Date: Feb 13, 2017
- | Number of Pages: 384 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 0989275345
- | ISBN-13: 9780989275347