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\u003cp\u003eThe start of the Irish Civil War was signalled by the artillery bombardment of the Four Courts in Dublin on 28 June 1922. A week later, the Four Courts was gutted and OâConnell Street a smouldering ruin, but the anti-Treaty IRA was driven from the city. Most accounts of the fighting in Dublin end there.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Civil War in Dublin reveals the complete, shocking story of Irelandâs capital during the ten-month guerrilla war that followed â a ruthless and bitter cycle of execution, outrage and revenge. The strategy of the anti-Treaty forces, often ignored or dismissed in previous histories, is brought to the fore.\u003cp\u003e\u003c/p\u003eDorneyâs exacting research provides total insight into how the city of Dublin operated under conditions of disorder and bloodshed: how civilians and guerrilla fighters controlled the streets, the patterns of IRA violence and National Army counter-insurgency alternated, and â for the first time â how the pro-Treaty âMurder Gangâ emerged from Michael Collinsâ IRA Intelligence Department, âthe Squadâ, with devastating effect.\u003cp\u003e\u003c/p\u003eThe Civil War in Dublin brings the chaos of these years to life through meticulous detail, revealing unsettling truths about the extreme actions taken by a burgeoning Irish Free State and its anti-Treaty opponents.\u003cp\u003e |
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