The Anglo-Irish War: The Troubles of 1913-1922

by Peter James Cottrell

The Anglo-Irish War has often been referred to as the war 'the English have struggled to forget and the Irish cannot help but remember'. Before 1919, the issue of Irish Home Rule lurked beneath the surface of Anglo-Irish relations for many years, but after the Great War, tensions rose up and boiled over. Irish Nationalists in the shape of Sinn F in and the IRA took political power in 1919 with a manifesto to claim Ireland back from an English 'foreign'...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1846030234
• ISBN13: 9781846030239
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: Osprey Publishing (UK)
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.6" x 9.7"