The Irish Civil War: Law, Execution and Atrocity by Sean Enright (PB)

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During the Irish Civil War, eighty-three prisoners were executed after trial by military court.The Irish Civil War: Law, Execution and Atrocityexplores 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.