Irish Civil War: Fratricide in the Free State

Fought over ten bitter months, the Irish Civil War was a brutal capstone to the independence story: an epilogue written in the blood of brothers. Taking place in both cities and open countryside, it pitted friends against neighbors, sons against fathers in a great, fratricidal struggle. A struggle that would change Irish history.

In this third part of our loose series on Irish Independence, we’re delving deep into the Civil War - a conflict that still scars Ireland to this very day.

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[v.emiltheii-nd.]

No war more soul-destroying and heartbreaking. No war as cruel and callous as a civil one..

[davidhochstetler]

Thank you for covering this entire situation in such depth, it’s hard to find anyone that will.

[The_Republic_of_Ireland]

from the 1916 video to this I guarantee Simon's subs have gone up without a doubt

[joeber]

Great series Simon. Shamefully we were never really taught about our history in any great detail in schools. It all depended on what your primary school teachers political leanings were. One year a your teacher would talk about how Collins was a great man and DeValera was only a trouble maker and the next year another teacher would say the opposite. Thank you for covering it the trilogy. You should do a biographies video on Collins or DeValera. Fun fact, DeValera was born in America and the fact that he had American citizenship was one of the reasons he wasn't executed by the British when captured.

[als]

The Troubles deserves its own series, I think. And since there are still a good number of those still alive from that period. This was very interesting.

Yeah Warographics is the best so far. Not as snide, more informative.

[bhgtree]

I think Collins was right, it was the best we'd have gotten, De Valera was too scared to go over and negotiate himself.
Thanks Simon.

[ignitionfrn]

1:10 - Chapter 1 - Broken dreams
5:00 - Chapter 2 - Things fall apart
8:55 - Chapter 3 - Days of crisis
12:50 - Chapter 4 - The republic, reborn
16:45 - Chapter 5 - Run to the hills
20:30 - Chapter 6 - The bitter end

[alexholl]

Great video, this series was awesome to see its not often we get content on our country, looking forward to seeing you cover the troubles no doubt

[anzelukman]

Great documentary. At this very time, I am writing my master's thesis in Ireland on the assassination of Michael Collins, comparing the Irish War of Independence and the Civil War with the Yugoslav War of Independence between 1941-45. Really looking forward to the Northern Ireland Troubles episode.

[Gavinkeenan]

Credit to you lads from an Irishman these videos you've done on Irish history have been balanced, knowledgeable and really interesting. As someone from the north I would be very interested to see you do a video on the troubles

[jazztom]

This guy is by far the best narrator on the internet .
Great voice great pace clear and concise
Amazing

[francisarmitage]

Good coverage. The problem with us Irish is that we don't know what we want...but we're always ready to fight for it.

[richardmather]

You are a fabulous presenter, orator, narrator. Great series this has been. I’ve found it fascinating.

[UrbanxGamingKingdom]

I’m gonna be real. You are the most underrated YouTube channel I’ve ever watched. The fact you don’t have over a million subscribers is actually crazy to me. Keep up the quality videos and incredible content. Here is one more sub to get you to that goal! Just wow!

[OhBeNice]

Thanks for doing this series on the history of Irish independence to Simon and all at warographics. As an Irishman and history nerd this is a great account of the events. Only minor criticism is you could have done with a pronunciation guide like on the casual criminalist. Big fan of many of your shows thanks for all the entertainment.

[jonathanbrown]

I typed this one into the search with what I assumed was a sense of false hope that he would have covered this topic. I love this mans approach to covering war, whether it be modern news updates or stories from times passed the way he speaks on solely the facts, respects the history and culture of the nations he's discussing when he can and entirely avoids it when the situation calls for silence on that front, as well as how well spoken, concise and articulate his descriptions are. truly in my opinion a master of the craft of narration and informing and the best channel of this genre on this platform currently in my opinion, so I'm sure you can understand why I was so pleased to see him cover the topic of my homelands worst divide until that point and since then ( opting to not draw a comparison to the division of the troubles as that was a far different conflict in a number of reasons predominantly being the scale, context, and its sectarian nature )

[Scoob]

My great grandfather was anti treaty In this war, only 19. 17 when he fought the Brits. He was one of the only survivors of the column he was in in Limerick

[EmilyJelassi]

Excellent video! Very interesting and thorough. I'm looking forward to you doing The Troubles.. I think they deserve their own series. Great job Simon and team 👏 💯 😊

[OverTheTop]

Simon will you please do a Biographical on Michael Collins. That would be great. Thank You Team Whistler. Love all your channels. Keep up the great work.
The movie by the same name focused on the make believe love story instead of what was actually going on.

[thebossman]

Brilliant video. In my opinion I think The Troubles mini deserve a series of its own.