Person: Béaslaí

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Ruthless and effective: 100 years on from Michael Collins’s killer Squad and their first mission

It’s 100 years since the specialised unit of IRA assassins undertook their first operation. Ryle Dwyer looks at the early days of a group who’d have a crucial role in the struggle

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A 1916 diary: Not in the News April 3 - 9

This is how the men and women who would be involved in the looming rebellion spent this week 100 years ago — some deeply involved in its planning, others still oblivious.

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A 1916 diary....NOT in the news (March 7 - 13, 1916)

Another glance at the activities 100 years ago this week of key figures in the upcoming Rising, as recorded by authorities at the time, or recalled later by the participants.

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The biographer who unwittingly made Michael Collins gay

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Vivid Faces: The Revolutionary Generation in Ireland, 1890-1923

Rebel countess blazed the way for a hardline set of women republicans

It’s time to put names on ambush story sources

IN his letter (Irish Examiner, May 6), Jack Lane drew attention to John Regan’s review of my book, Tom Barry: IRA Freedom Fighter (Mercier Press) where the reviewer stated that Peter Hart was “fortunate in finding survivors of the ambush alive and lucid nearly 70 years after the event… one of whom, he notes, visited the site with him”.

Mon, 22 May, 2006