David Lloyd George boasted that he had ‘murder by the throat’ in a speech in London in 1920 having swamped Ireland with troops, Black and Tans, Auxilliaries, assassins, touts and informants. Eighteen months later the British left Ireland defeated by counter-espionage.

Edward J. Bourke, using information newly investigated, outlines for us a web of espionage, assassination, collaboration and execution in the Irish War of Independence, which can only now be understood.

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