Will the show go on?

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.