Browsing History (Peer-reviewed publications) by Author "Hughes, Brian"
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Contested memories: revisiting the battle of Mount Street Bridge, 1916
Hughes, Brian; Campbell, Billy; Schreibman, Susan (British Journal for Military History, 2017)The Battle of Mount Street Bridge, 26 April 1916, was the most successful rebel military engagement of the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin. Though it accounted for something in the region of half of the total British casualties ... -
Defying the IRA? Intimidation, coercion, and communities during the Irish Revolution
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The disbanded Royal Irish Constabulary and forced migration, 1922–31
Hughes, Brian (2022-04-08)This article concerns the men of the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) who were disbanded from the force in 1922 and felt obliged to leave Ireland for Britain. Afforded unique – if not always entirely sufficient – financial ... -
Loyalists and loyalism in a southern Irish community, 1921– 22 (pre-published version)
Hughes, Brian (Cambridge University Press, 2016)A second Irish Grants Committee met for the first time in October 1926 to deal with claims for compensation from distressed southern Irish loyalists. By the time it had ceased its work, the committee had dealt with over ... -
'Make the terror behind greater than the terror in front'? Internal discipline, forced participation, and the I.R.A., 1919–21 (pre-published version)
Hughes, Brian (Cambridge University Press, 2018)This article will explore two relatively neglected features of the Irish Republican Army’s (I.R.A.) guerrilla war between 1919 and 1921: internal discipline and forced participation. The gravest disciplinary measure was ...