Handmade Bomb from war of Independence
The amateur nature of the Irish Volunteers and the IRA in their encounters with British Crown Forces is demonstrated well in this makeshift home-made bomb. Emptied cans of fruit, treacle or other such…
Many of the radical generation that led the struggle for Irish independence cut their teeth in the in the Gaelic League, the organisation set up in 1893 by Douglas Hyde and Eoin MacNeill to revive the Irish language and culture; many of its most…