Liam Lynch: leader of the anti-treaty IRA, the Provisional Government’s best hope at preventing civil war, and a nationalist hero who shone brightest during the Irish War of Independence. Lynch represented both the best of the Irish nationalist’s tendencies and the worst. But who was he and how did he become a key player during the Irish Civil War?
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References
The Republic by Charles Townshend
Between Two Hells by Diarmaid Ferriter
Vivid Faces by R. F. Foster
Irish Civil War 1922-23 by Peter Cottrell
Richard Mulcahy: From the Politics of War to the Politics of Peace, 1913-1924 by Padraig O Caoimh
Eamon De Valera: a Will to Power by Ronan Fanning
Green Against Green by Michael Hopkinson
Liam Lynch: To Declare a Republic by Gerard Shannon
“I thank God that I have been in the very big push for the motherland”: The Role of Violence and Society in the Correspondence of IRA Commander Liam Lynch by Thomas Earls FitzGerald
