A Hard Local War: The British Army and the Guerrilla War in Cork 1919-1921
Dec 2017 · The History Press
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Following years of discontent over Home Rule and the Easter Rising, the deaths of two Royal Irish Constabulary policemen in Soloheadbeg at the hands of the IRA in 1919 signalled the outbreak of war in Ireland. The Irish War of Independence raged until a truce between the British Army and the IRA in 1921, historical consensus being that the conflict ended in military stalemate. In A Hard Local War, William Sheeham sets out to prove that no such stalemate existed, and that both sides were continually innovative and adaptive. Using new research and previously unpublished archive material, he traces the experience of the British rank and file, their opinion of their opponents, the special forces created to fight in the Irish countryside, RAF involvement and the evolution of IRA reliance on IEDs and terrorism.
About the author
WILLIAM SHEEHAN is a military historian and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Higher Education Academy. He has lectured at NUI Maynooth and University College Cork, and is a member of its Ferguson Centre for African and Asian Studies at the Open University. His previously published works include, The FCA: An Illustrated History, British Voices from the Irish War of Independence and Hearts and Mines: The 5th Division, Ireland 1920-22. His research focuses mainly on British counterinsurgency in the Inter-War Period.
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