16/09/22 09:28
Loughboy Library is this year's venue for our Culture Night Event
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JOHN DORNEY - The Big House and the Irish Civil War
The ‘Big House’ – the country mansion of the Anglo-Irish landed class - was a target of republicans throughout the Irish revolution of 1919-23. A total of 275 were burned out, blown up or destroyed. Historian John Dorney explains how radical nationalists, in the anti-Treaty IRA, took the opportunity to sweep away the symbols of the old order.
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“Supported by the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media under the Decade of Centenaries 2012-2023 initiative.”