Armagh

County Armagh was one of the most controversial theatres of political and military conflict during the 1912– 23 period. The county’s long-standing antipathy between unionism and nationalism intensified during the third home rule crisis of 1912– 14. To the alarm of nationalists, unionists mobilized politically and militarily to oppose home rule and demanded a partitioned Ireland to preserve their hegemony in Ulster. The political changes brought about by the First World War and the 1916 Risi...