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British army leaves Ireland (1922)

British General Macready takes the final salute as the British troops leave Ireland (1922)

General Mulcahy and his men salute the last British troops to leave Ireland (1922)

General Mulchahy hoists the Republican Flag over the Irish Command Headquarters. (British Troops Leave Ireland | 1922)

Three generations stand outside their stone cottage, Ireland, 1927. Photo: Clifton R. Adams/National Geographic

Signatures of some of the Irish Revolutionaries of 1916. 

Battle of the Bogside, August, 1969.

Bernadette Devlin was an Irish feminist, socialist, and republican, and at age 21, she became the youngest female Member of Parliament. She spoke passionately, eloquently, intelligently, and unforgivingly in support of Catholics during the civil rights movement in Northern Ireland. In 1969, after the keys to New York City were presented to her, Devlin gave them to the Black Panther Party, because she better identified with them and their plight than with the conservative Irish-Americans she had met on her visit to the U.S. In 1972, the British Home Secretary made a defense for the British soldiers who shot 26 unarmed Irish civilians during the Bogside Massacre. In the middle of his speech, Devlin stood up and punched him. She stated that it was “coldly, and calmly done” and that she did it to deliver “a simple, proletarian protest.” When asked if she was going to apologize, she responded, “I’m just sorry I didn’t get him by the throat.”