Truce
Subtitle: murder, myth and the last days of the Irish War of Independence
By: Padraig Óg Ó Ruairc
Publisher: The Mercier Press
Published: 2016
Place of publication: [Cork, Ireland]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9781781173855
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: History; Revolutions; Politics and government; Foreign relations; Nationalism; Irish Republican Army
Description: On July 8, 1921, a truce between the IRA and the British Army was announced to begin 3 days later. However, in the four days from July 8-11, at least 60 people were killed. For a century the truth of these killings has been conveniently overlooked and instead replaced  by myths and propaganda invented by politicians, historians and newspaper columnists to support the idea that the IRA launched a campaign to kill as many people as possible before the war ended, most of them 'soft targets'. This book goes back to the facts to reveal what actually happened, and why, in those four bloody days of battle between the IRA and their British opponents in Ireland's War of Independence. -- Publisher description
Notes: Includes bibliographic references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The political and military origins of the truce; title: The execution of suspected spies; title: IRA attacks on off-duty British Troops; title: Pre-Truce offensives and IRA operations, 8-11 July 1921; title: Fatalities inflicted by the British forces; title: Belfast's Bloody Sunday; title: Conclusion.