Table of Contents

Introduction 1

1 Fond memories, location and hostility: the role of civilians in republican testimony, 1918–23 20

2 Delinquent youths and the moderate majority: the role of civilians in the records of the crown forces and Free State army, 1918–23 44

3 Crime, alcohol, travellers and emigration: republican policing in 1920 68

4 The development of the IRA’s campaign against combatants and civilians in 1920 92

5 ‘…the Tans appeared to have gone absolutely mad’: the crown forces and violence, 1920–21 130

6 Ambushes, harassment, arson, and spies and informers: IRA violence in 1921 175

7 Truce and civil war 211

About the Author

Thomas Earls FitzGerald is a historian of modern Ireland. He was previously a research fellow at the Centre for Contemporary Irish History at Trinity College Dublin and a James Flaherty research scholar with the Ireland – Canada University Foundation at Concordia University, Montreal. This is his first book.