Mr Tiger, Betsy and the Golden Seahorse

A meticulous, compellingly readable reconstruction of those three summer days that ignited the civil war the defining event of modern Irish politics. The Irish Civil War began at around four o'clock in the morning on June 28, 1922. An 18-pounder artillery piece began to fire on the thick granite walls of the Four Courts a beautiful eighteenth-century complex of buildings that housed Ireland's ...