The Irish Civil War: Law, Execution and Atrocity

by Sean Enright

During the Irish Civil War, eighty-three prisoners were executed after trial by military court. The Irish Civil War: Law, Execution and Atrocity explores the pressures that drove the provisional government to try prisoners for arms offences by military courts, and how, at a time of great crisis, the rule of law evaporated and the new policy morphed into reprisal executions.

More than 125 further prisoners were killed in the custody...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 178537253X
• ISBN13: 9781785372537
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: Merrion Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"