Irish Free State offensive
The Irish Free State offensive of July–September 1922 was the decisive military stroke of the Irish Civil War. It was carried out by the National Army of the newly created Irish Free State against anti-treaty strongholds in the south and southwest of Ireland.
National Army troops in Limerick, July 1922
Soldiers at Granville Hotel, Waterford during July 1922
Arvonia, formerly Cambria
Free State armoured car at Passage West, c.August 1922
The Irish Civil War was a conflict that followed the Irish War of Independence and accompanied the establishment of the Irish Free State, an entity independent from the United Kingdom but within the British Empire.
National Army soldiers armed with Lewis machine guns aboard a troop transport in the Civil War
The Four Courts along the River Liffey quayside. The building was occupied by anti-treaty forces during the Civil War, whom the National Army subsequently bombarded into surrender. The Irish national archives in the buildings were destroyed in the subsequent fire. The building was badly damaged but was fully restored after the war.
National Army soldiers during the Civil War
Dan Breen's appeal to Free State troops
