The Galway Archaeological and Historical Society holds a timely lecture on the Irish civil war of 1922-23 in the Inis Mor ballroom of the Galmont Hotel, on Monday April 11 at 8 pm.
For many decades, historians and commentators avoided examination of the civil war, regarding it almost with embarrassment.
Within families and communities, the ‘war of the brothers’ was discussed in hushed tones, if at all. Such was the sensitivity, that even academic research on the subject only truly began after the last of the revolutionary generation had left political life in the 1970s.
At this lecture Prof. Michael Laffan will examine how our views of this conflict have evolved in recent years.
Prof. Laffan lectured at the School of History and Archives at UCD for over three decades. His books include The Resurrection of Ireland: the Sinn Féin Party, 1916-1923, and Judging W. T. Cosgrave a biography of the first leader of the independent Irish State.
