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An unforgettable ‘holiday experience’ in Dublin in June 1920.

This post tells the story of two young ‘Tyneside Irishmen’ caught up in a British Army raid on a Dublin hotel in June 1920.   After the Great War, though in severe financial difficulties following the collapse of the Irish Parliamentary Party in the 1918 general election, Dublin’s Freeman’s Journal still regularly reported Irish nationalist […]