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17 de jun. de 2024 · One of the most compelling characters to have emerged from the conflict, someone still the target of vitriol today, the tragic story of Kevin O’Higgins encapsulates the bitter divisions of a time...
11 de jun. de 2024 · Kevin O’Higgins, vice-president of the government of the Irish Free State and its first minister for justice, was shot to death as he walked to Mass from his home at Booterstown, Dublin on July...
15 de jun. de 2024 · Sat Jun 15 2024 - 05:15. After the Irish Civil War ended in the summer of 1923, the defeated republicans, although they had dumped arms, were not in a mood to forgive and forget. They particularly...
13 de jun. de 2024 · Kevin Christopher O’Higgins was an Irish statesman who attempted severe repression of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) in the aftermath of the Irish civil war (1922–23). A man of intellectual power, he was described (by William Butler Yeats) as “a great man in his pride confronting murderous men.”
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6 de jun. de 2024 · Kevin O’Higgins was one of the most divisive figures in the early years of the Irish State. Reviled by anti-Treaty republicans, he was an advocate of the Free State government’s execution policy...
20 de jun. de 2024 · The tragedy of the Irish Civil War and its legacy of hatred loom large in this new biography of Kevin O’Higgins by Arthur Mathews. Data on the Civil War fatalities recently published by a team of researchers in UCC highlights the extent of the tragedy.
20 de jun. de 2024 · In July 1927, Kevin O’Higgins, the Minister for Justice, was assassinated on his way to mass in Booterstown. Now, a new book explores this complex story.
