The ‘Big House’, the country mansion of the Anglo-Irish landed class, was a target of republicans throughout the Irish revolution 1919-23, with a total of 275 burned down or destroyed.

Historian John Dorney explains how the anti-Treaty IRA took the opportunity to sweep away these symbols of the old order.

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