Is túisce deoch ná scéal.

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1st July 1934: Irish Fascist politician and leader of the Blueshirts General Eoin O’Duffy, Commissioner of the Garda Siochana under de Valera and later president of Fine Gael. 

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June 1922: Catholic children from Belfast are relocated in Dublin during the Irish Civil War.

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A SUPPORTER PAINTS IRA ON THE WALL OF SPRINGFIELD ROAD POLICE STATION IN WEST BELFAST WHERE CROWDS OF NATIONALISTS GATHERED AS THE IRA CEASEFIRE CAME INTO EFFECT AT MIDNIGHT.

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Communist Party of Ireland (1970)

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Finally moved in. Sorting house. Riots, etc. Snore.

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If the men of property will not support us, they must fall. Our strength shall come from that great and respectable class, the men of no property.

Theobald Wolfe Tone

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National Army soldiers searching through the remains of a fire at the Rotunda Rink, Parnell Square, which was the sorting office of the General Post Office, Dublin. The Irish Times of Monday, 6 November 1922 contained this report of the event: "The Rotunda Rink Post Office, Dublin, was destroyed by fire yesterday morning. At about 6.40 o'clock armed men compelled a watchman to admit them at the western gate. The officials on duty were ordered into a small room, and later were escorted into Lower Dominick street, when they were instructed to walk towards the Broadstone Station. In the meanwhile, other men entered the Rink with tins of petrol, with which they saturated the floors, and, when their preparations were complete, set the place on fire. Within an hour, despite the efforts of the fire brigade to extinguish the flames, the Rink was a mass of smouldering ashes and twisted ironwork. The destruction of the Rink has resulted in the loss of a great quantity of correspondence. There will be only two deliveries in the city today, but to-morrow there will be three. The postal authorities, apparently, intend to use Banba Hall as a temporary sorting office." Date: 5 November 1922

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Seán Collins beside the coffin of his brother, Michael Collins.

Following his death at Béal na mBláth in Cork on 22 August, the body of Michael Collins was transported to Dublin. He lay in state at Dublin's City Hall for three days. Thousands of people filed past the coffin.

Date: 27 August 1922

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Thousands of people in O'Connell Street (Sackville Street) watch the funeral cortege of Michael Collins pass on its way to Glasnevin Cemetery.

Date: 28 August 1922

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Armoured Car, Passage West, Cork. This photo appeared in the Sunday Independent on 13 August 1922, with the caption: "A Dangerous Corner - This photograph was taken in one of the towns captured during the past week by the National Army. It shows an armoured car "manoeuvring for position" at the end of a street facing the post office. Irregulars occupy the further end of the street, and are being quickly dislodged by infantry supported by the armoured car."  

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This shot of Michael Collins and Risteard Mulcahy was taken in Glasnevin Cemetery at the funeral of Arthur Griffith, who died on 12 August 1922.

Michael Collins was killed on 22 August at Béal na mBláth in Cork, and was himself buried in Glasnevin Cemetery just 12 days after this photo was taken.

Date: 16 August 1922

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aA prisoner under escort at the South Western Front during the Irish Civil War. Given the situation, everyone looks remarkably relaxed...

Date: 22 July 1922

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The National Library of Ireland: We were originally fairly sure this photo was taken on Monday, 10 July 1922, but wanted to know a lot more about it than we did. If correctly dated, this would have been taken 5 days after Oscar Traynor's anti-Treaty fighters had been defeated around O'Connell Street in Dublin, and 17 days before he was arrested and imprisoned in Gormanston Camp... We asked if any of you could help and there was a huge effort put into correctly dating this photo.

Thanks to everyone involved, but ultimately, we have to thank Siulach who commented: "According to the Irish Independent, April 3, 1922, the Dublin City Brigade I.R.A. paraded at Smithfield on the 2nd "under officers who recognise the Executive established as a result of the recent Convention", and were addressed by Oscar Traynor, Rory O'Connor and F[rank] Henderson."

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National Army troops at the South Western Front during the Irish Civil War.

Date: Friday 21 or Saturday 22 July 1922

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The Four Courts in Dublin during the Battle of Dublin. The building had been taken over by Anti-Treaty forces on 14 April 1922. Bombarded by National Army forces on 28 and 29 June, a huge explosion of stored munitions on 30 June destroyed the Public Records Office, and with it a huge swathe of Irish cultural memory.

Date: 30 June 1922

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At the start of the Irish Civil War in 1922, the Battle of Dublin took place from 28 June to 5 July. This photo shows guests finally making their escape from the The Edinburgh Hotel at 56 Upper Sackville Street, now O'Connell Street. The Edinburgh Hotel was a temperance hotel, meaning that the beleaguered guests couldn't even resort to alcohol during their confinement!

Date: Wednesday, 5 July 1922

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Free State troops on board a ship bound for a secret destination during the Irish Civil War.