Spotlight: Disappeared but still remembered - Unearthing the IRA’s lost victims

Historians Andy Bielenberg and Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc unearth the truth about the ‘Old-IRA’s secret executions in the Irish Revolution

Left: Alan Ledrum, a Resident Magistrate who was disappeared by the Clare IRA in 1920; Right: District Inspector Gilbert Potter who was executed in Tipperary was the highest ranking member of the RIC to be disappeared - just two of many who disappeared between 1920 and 1922

For the first time a comprehensive list identifying most, if not all of those, ‘disappeared’ during the War of Independence has been published. 

This research features in an academic article “Shallow Graves - documenting & assessing IRA disappearances during the Irish revolution” which features in the current edition of The Journal of Small Wars and Insurgencies.