In 1913, Ireland, the whole of Ireland was an integrated and peaceful part of the UK – albeit one with a strong home rule movement and a strong counter-home rule movement.
It had two private and opposing armies and a secret underground brotherhood dedicated to winning an Irish Republic by force.
A world war, a rising, a guerilla war and a civil war later, most of Ireland had left the UK by 1923, becoming the Irish Free State, and of course, Northern Ireland was born.
Ireland free but disunited, Northern Ireland British but divided.
Ciarán Dunbar is joined by Academic Director with Boston College Ireland and co-author of ‘Revolutionary Times – Ireland 1913-23: The Forging of a Nation’ Mike Cronin.
Professor Cronin chats about the book and why things turned out as they did.
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1913 to 1923: 10 ‘revolutionary years’ that changed Ireland completely
