Description

Troubled Times offers an unyielding, meticulously detailed micro-history of the revolutionary period as it unfolded outside the national capital. The book maps out the local organization of the Irish Volunteers, the execution of the Easter Rising in the west, and the complex guerrilla tactics deployed by the local IRA brigades against the Black and Tans during the War of Independence. Crucially, the author integrates the painful fractures of the subsequent Civil War and the agrarian disputes that drove local radicalism. Utilizing pension records, military dispatches, and oral family accounts, this volume stands as a crucial reference work for advanced academic researchers and genealogists tracing Galway ancestry.