Person: Thomas Markham

A COMPREHENSIVE SERIES OF ARTICLES ON THIS TOPIC

Collins won intelligence war by a good stretch

Last Wednesday marked the 90th anniversary of the death of Michael Collins. Ryle Dwyer on a new book on his decisive role in the Anglo-Irish War

Sat, 25 Aug, 2012

Tit-for-tat — How Churchill used hostages as a bargaining chip for the release of policemen kidnapped in the North

ON THE afternoon of June 27, 1922, when Winston Churchill gave vent to his frustration at the failure to act against the IRA in the Four Courts, British intelligence was already aware that the provisional government in Dublin was deeply implicated in the offensive waged by the IRA in Northern Ireland over the previous two months.

Tue, 03 Jul, 2012