Irish Civil War
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Sep 10, 2026
Ciaran ConliffeHOST
Their ideological point was also undermined the following year, when Cleves declared bankruptcy.
Ciaran ConliffeHOST
The outbreak of the Irish Civil War in June 1922 spelled the end for the Irish Soviets.
Ciaran ConliffeHOST
Both sides in the war were led by conservatives who regarded communism as a dangerous form of subversion, and the ongoing conflict led to them using direct action against the Soviets.
Ciaran ConliffeHOST
On the pro-treaty side, there was the case of Waterford Gasworks in the spring of 1923.
GemmaHOST
Which I just found really interesting.
GemmaHOST
Um, and then in 1923, during the Irish Civil War, the IRA actually burnt the whole thing down.
CheriHOST
Of course they did, 'cause they did it with everything.
GemmaHOST
Yeah.
Diarmaid FerriterHOST
And me, Catriona Quinn.
Diarmaid FerriterHOST
Today, we're going to talk about one of the most shocking events of the Irish Civil War, the Ballyseedy Massacre, which took place in Kerry in early March 1923.
Diarmaid FerriterHOST
For many people, this was the cruelest, most depraved act during that war.
Diarmaid FerriterHOST
Nine IRA prisoners were taken from custody, tied to a landmine and blown up.
Catriona CroweHOST
So while we will be emphasising the gruesomeness of what happens in Ballyseedy, this is pretty gruesome too.
Diarmaid FerriterHOST
Katrina, when we consider how things got to the state they did in the spring of 1923, we need to have an awareness, I suppose, of wider context.
Diarmaid FerriterHOST
you know, the Irish Civil War, how it had got to that point.
Diarmaid FerriterHOST
We've talked before about the momentous debate in the Dáil over the terms of the Anglo-Irish Treaty.
Simon KingstonHOST
There was an official narrative created of a heroic origin myth, you know, based around a... centuries-long tradition of a kind of resistance that took various forms, but then, crucially, in 1916, a struggle against the evil empire that then runs through to the end of the War of Independence.
Simon KingstonHOST
And then that national origin myth... evades lots of the tougher realities of the Irish Civil War.
Simon KingstonHOST
And it's taken a very long time to move past that, but perhaps that was a necessary fiction in order to allow people who had been horribly divided to live together.
David ClarkeHOST
Yeah, well, you know, the power of narrative there, in some ways to create cohesion, stories are really, really important.
Mark JohnsonHOST
So in a similar way for Ireland, I know there's the Battle of Clontarf, which is Vikings against the Celts, where is now Dublin.
Mark JohnsonHOST
I know there's the Irish Freedom Solitary Game about the very complicated history of Ireland, the Anglo-Irish War and the Irish Civil War.
Mark JohnsonHOST
I don't know that there's a game about the troubles, the political... trouble between Britain and Ireland centered around Northern Ireland, but also with bombings and everything happening in other places too.
Mark JohnsonHOST
And I know a game sounds like the wrong thing, but you know what I mean, a historical simulation or treatise about it.
TanikaHOST
So, like, any records that would have been from this is probably gone.
TanikaHOST
So, yeah, the decision of the Public Record Office of Ireland during the Irish Civil War.
TanikaHOST
The Witchcraft Act of 1586 provided a penalty of death for causing death by witchcraft
TanikaHOST
and one year's imprisonment with time in the pillory for causing injury.
WesHOST
That's really hard.
WesHOST
It clearly is a metaphor symbolizing Irish Civil War because they keep talking about the Civil War that's happening on the mainland.
WesHOST
Yeah.
WesHOST
And so I don't know who's supposed to represent what.
Micheál MartinGUEST
I mean, I read a book once called The Sealed Train, and it's the book of, it's about Lenin's journey from Zurich to Moscow.
Micheál MartinGUEST
And Lenin, the Kaiser wants him to obviously start the civil war, the Bolshevik Revolution.
Micheál MartinGUEST
Why? Because, of course, he wants Russia out of the war.
Micheál MartinGUEST
And it's called a sealed train because it stops in Germany.
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Anne TwomeyGUEST
And not so much power isn't the right word, but the ability to shape your own area and to have those points fed up along the line into a central organization that was going to kind of shape national policy.
Anne TwomeyGUEST
And it seems to me, coming back to Gary's point about, you know, Fianna Fáil were always doing something.
Anne TwomeyGUEST
I think you'd have to give some kind of credit, you mentioned in your book as well, that what Commonwealth took on between 22 and 32 was an enormous task of, you know, building a state as well as the civil war and all of that.
Anne TwomeyGUEST
There's no two ways about it.
FitzHOST
So what I'll do first, I'm gonna give you a little bit of a, um, a summary of the story, then I'll read it, I'll read it to you.
FitzHOST
So it's set in Dublin, um, during the Irish Civil War, which, um, was a short civil war.
FitzHOST
It wasn't of the scope or the scale of the Spanish Civil War, but it was something that still has-- The, the country still has a scar like any country does after a civil war.
FitzHOST
It took place between June nineteen twenty-two and May nineteen twenty-three.
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FitzHOST
Um, there is one that we've discussed on the Hibernians several times, which is called Guests of the Nation.
FitzHOST
Now, Guests of the Nation, to be a guest of the nation actually is, is a polite way of saying you're a prisoner, you're in jail.
FitzHOST
Uh, but this is a beautiful short story, again, set during the Irish Civil War, where, um, where Irish revolutionaries, uh, capture, uh, two British soldiers.
FitzHOST
And, um, and what it highlights is the, the, the, mm, the, the, the British soldiers and the Irish soldiers actually en-end up realizing they have an awful lot in common, um, an awful lot in common with each other.
Dominic SandbrookHOST
The British government used it after the Easter Rising.
Dominic SandbrookHOST
The Irish Free State, you know, Michael Collins and co. used it during the Irish Civil War.
Dominic SandbrookHOST
Both Belfast and Dublin used it in the Second World War and in the border campaign, the IRA border campaign of the late '50s and '60s, and it worked.
Dominic SandbrookHOST
Basically, they knew who the IRA men were.
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