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The Irish Military Archives is the ... comprising witness statements, contemporary documents, photographs, press-cuttings and voice recordings, compiled between 1947 ...
The Bureau of Military History in Ireland was established in January 1947 by Oscar Traynor TD, Minister for Defence and former Captain in the Irish Volunteers.The rationale for the establishment of the Bureau was to give individuals who played an active part in the events which brought about Irish Independence a chance to record their own experiences.
In 1946, he was appointed to a committee of eight historians to advise on setting up the Bureau of Military History – a body established for the creation and compilation of material on the history of the Irish movements for independence, 1913–1921, specifically from witness statements.
Witness Statement W.S. 1338 : Bureau of Military History Ext. Link (Copies of the Witness Statements are accessible to the public at the National Archives of Ireland though not, as yet, online.) Cork Archives Institute PR4 Terence MacSwiney 1920 Files. [permanent dead link ] The Dáil Éireann Courts Commission, National Archives of Ireland
Treacy was keen to commence hostilities and believed a military confrontation with the RIC and the British authorities was the only way to establish the Republic that Ireland had proclaimed in 1916 and voted for in 1918. In December 1918, they received information that there were plans to move a consignment of gelignite from the Tipperary Town ...
Ryan's argument was queried by American historian W. H. Kautt, who discovered that the report had been included in a collection of captured IRA documents that was published by the British Army's Irish Command in June 1921 before the Truce. In Ambushes and Armour: The Irish Rebellion 1919-1921, Kautt suggested that the report could be authentic ...
The Irish state has a long-standing policy of non-belligerence in armed conflicts, including neutrality in World War II.Ireland's military capabilities are modest. However, the state has a long history of involvement in United Nations peacekeeping operations.
the administration and business of the raising, training, organisation, maintenance, equipment, management, discipline, regulation, and control according to law of the Military Defence Forces of Saorstát Eireann, and all powers, duties and functions connected with the same, and of which Department the head shall be, and shall be styled, an t ...