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  • Helene O'Keeffe

    Helene O'Keeffe

    Helene O'Keeffe is a historian, author and project manager, based in UCC's School of History.

    Helene O'Keeffe is a historian, author and project manager, based in UCC's School of History. 

    Prime Minister David Lloyd George made the fateful decision

    Why nationalist groups were driven underground

    By the end of 1919 Dáil Eireann, Sinn Féin, the Gaelic League and Cumann na mBan had all been banned by the British. Why?

    The Ban • 03 Apr 20
    How Sinn Féin's daring decision made the First Dáil happen

    How a daring decision made the First Dáil happen

    In 1914 Ireland was on the path to Home Rule. But just four years later, a previously minor political party called Sinn Féin won a landslide victory and established the First Dáil. How did it happen?

    History • 06 Apr 20
    Crowds outside Mountjoy Prison show their support for IRA inmates. They may not have been representative of public opinion

    What did the general public think of the War of Independence?

    Hunger Strikes • 03 Apr 20
    Volunteers Maurice Crowe (Tipperary) and Michael Carolan (Belfast) recover in the Mater Hospital (April 1920) after the Mountjoy hunger strike had ended [Photo: Irish Military Archives,, IE-MA-BMH-CD-208-2-11

    Hunger Strikes and the War of Independence

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    De Valera and FOIF members Daniel Cohalan, John Goff and James Devoy

    From Friends to foes: De Valera and the Friends of Irish Freedom

    De Valera in America • 03 Apr 20
    Membership card of Willard de Lue of the Friends of Irish Freedom, October 23rd 1919. Image courtesy of the National Library of Ireland

    Friends of Irish Freedom: the Americans who changed Irish history

    De Valera in America • 03 Apr 20
    Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his family in the 1910s. (Image by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

    How Russian crown jewels went from the Romanovs to Harry Boland

    On De Valera's American trip, an Irish loan to the Russian revolutionary government led to the Russian crown jewels being given as security to the Irish delegation. So how did they end up in a suburban Dublin fireplace?

    De Valera in America • 03 Apr 20
    Unidentified young woman wearing Cumann na mBan pin. Image courtesy of National Library of Ireland

    Cumann na mBan and the War of Independence

    How their "work that could only be performed by girls" helped to win the war

    Cumann Na Mban • 21 Aug 20
    The 1919 British raid on Sinn Féin headquarters in Harcourt Street, Dublin. This image is reproduced with the kind permission of The National Museum of Ireland.

    How banning the Dáil backfired on the British

    History • 03 Apr 20
    Prime Minister David Lloyd George made the fateful decision

    Banned! Why nationalist groups were driven underground in 1919

    By the end of 1919 Dáil Eireann, Sinn Féin, the Gaelic League and Cumann na mBan had all been banned by the British. Why?

    The Ban • 24 Mar 20
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