The Irish Revolution Channel's video: Lincoln Jailbreak February 1919 The Irish War of Independence

https://paypal.me/IrishRevolution Please consider supporting the channel. Anything you contribute would be a great help. Correction: I say (many times) that De Valera is the President of the Irish Republic... that is not strictly speaking true. He would be formally elected as such by Dáil Éireann in April. Cathal Brugha had been acting President before that but only as a temporary measure and I believe it wouldn't have been incorrect for people to refer to De Valera as 'The President' in the meantime. I'd welcome discussion of this below in the comments. Oh, and: THE MICHAEL COLLINS MOVIE IS DEEPLY FLAWED! I'm aware of that. Don't feel the need to point out the Harry Boland/Collins love triangle... I was a bit sloppy when I talked about that. Help support the channel by shopping through the amazon affiliates programme: Harry Boland's Irish Revolution by David Fitzpatrick - https://amzn.to/2VBWEFs Big Fellow, Long Fellow, A Joint Biography of Collins & De Valera by T. Ryle Dwyer - https://amzn.to/2RETul7 The Resurrection of Ireland by Michael Laffan - https://amzn.to/2SFiLbQ The Evolution of Irish Nationalist Politics by Tom Garvin - https://amzn.to/2Bq9ygH The Republic: The Fight for Irish Independence by Charles Townshend - https://amzn.to/2QJrKrW Political Violence in Ireland by Charles Townshend - https://amzn.to/2DoR3vG Fatal Path: British Government & Irish Revolution by Ronan Fanning - https://amzn.to/2zTa5XF Atlas of the Irish Revolution - https://amzn.to/2zGkyXn Edward Carson by ATQ Stewart - https://amzn.to/2yhQqzK Judging W.T. Cosgrave by Michael Laffan - https://amzn.to/2P1EER1 Judging Dev by Diarmuid Ferriter - https://amzn.to/2RwMiVp The Irish War of Independence by Michael Hopkinson - https://amzn.to/2ygvMji Easter 1916 by Charles Townshend - https://amzn.to/2DEfhTn Here's a glossary of terms: A Specials - Full time special police created for Ulster B Specials - Part time 'paramilitary' police C Specials - A sort of reserve police who weren't really used Ancient Order of Hibernians - a fraternal organisation utilised by constitutionalist Home Rule nationalists. Black & Tans/Auxiliaries - Demobilised British soldiers recruited to replace the ailing RIC in Ireland and to wage war against the IRA. The War of Independence is sometimes known as 'the Tan War' Dáil Courts - Revolutionary court system which supplanted the British one Dáil Éireann - Revolutionary parliament set up by Sinn Fein MPs G Division (G men) - The detective branch of the Dublin metropolitan police. Targeted for elimination by Michael Collin's 'Squad' IRA - Irish Republican Army - previously the Irish Volunteers IRB - Irish Republican Brotherhood - a secret revolutionary society. Not endorsed by all the revolutionaries. ITGWU - The Irish Transport & General Worker's Union. A trade union of a socialist/Republican persuasion. Labour Party - The socialist political party who often made way for the Republican movement, for example didn't contest the 1918 general election so as not to muddy the waters. Nationalist - also the Home Rulers, who wanted a devolved administration in Dublin. Partition - the division of Ireland between the 26 county Free State to the South and the 6 county 'statelet' to the North, Northern Ireland. Republican - Those who desired an independent Irish Republic RIC - Royal Irish Constabulary (Irish Police) RUC - Royal Ulster Constabulary (Northern Irish police - created later) Sinn Fein - The political wing of the IRA, Republicans. Unionist - Those loyal to the British crown, who wish to remain part of the United Kingdom I'll update this list as we go along. Twitter: http://twitter.com/IrishRevYouTube Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Irish-Revolution-622343078111039 Many thanks to irishelectionliterature.com - They have some great content over there. Full credit given to Wikimedia Commons, NLI Flickr page, PRONI Flickr page, the bureau of military history... Music by Wayne Jones (Youtube creator studio) Image of Harry Boland: PD-US, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6081705 Image of Lincoln prison: By Matthew Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3070619 Image of Ned/Eamon Broy: By Source (WP:NFCC ), Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=59548871 And thanks to the Irish Newspaper Archive for their support