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A Hard Local War: The British Army and the Guerrilla War in Cork 1919 - 22
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A Hard Local War: The British Army and the Guerrilla War in Cork 1919 - 22 Hardcover - 2011

by Sheehan, William


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Following years of discontent over Home Rule and the Easter Rising, the deaths of two Royal Irish Constabulary policemen in Soloheadbeg at the hands of the IRA in 1919 signaled the outbreak of war in Ireland. The Irish War of Independence raged until a truce between the British Army and the IRA in 1921, historical consensus being that the conflict ended in military stalemate. In A Hard Local War, William Sheeham sets out to prove that no such stalemate existed, and that both sides were continually innovative and adaptive. Using new research and previously unpublished archive material, he traces the experience of the British rank and file, their opinion of their opponents, the special forces created to fight in the Irish countryside, RAF involvement, and the evolution of IRA reliance on IEDs and terrorism.

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  • Title A Hard Local War: The British Army and the Guerrilla War in Cork 1919 - 22
  • Author Sheehan, William
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 256
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher The History Press
  • Date 2011
  • ISBN 9780752458823

About the author

William Sheehan is a lecturer on military history. He serves in the Irish Reverse Defense Forces, and has been awarded a Limerick Literary Tradition Award and an Award for Outstanding Achievement from Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick. He is the author of more than 20 books and articles, including Trenchard: The Architect of British Airpower, The Front: Irish Soldier and World, and Warlike George, An Irish King in India.
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