1. Will the show go on?
- Author
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Foster, Gavin
- Subjects
IRISH Free State, 1922-1937 ,HISTORY of amusements ,RECREATION centers ,IRISH Civil War, 1922-1923 ,HISTORY - Abstract
The article discusses efforts by the Irish Republican Army (IRA) to shut down public amusements in Dublin such as sports, films, dances and plays as a protest against the mass internment of republicans and Irish Free State executions in the early years after the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty in 1921. The campaign was short-lived with little results, and the article discusses the IRA's hardening stance against civilians over the course of the Irish Civil War.
- Published
- 2017