The Irish Civil War: Law, Execution and Atrocity in Bloomington, MN

During the Irish Civil War, eighty-three prisoners were executed after trial by military court.
The Irish Civil War: Law, Execution and Atrocity
explores the pressures that drove the provisional government to try prisoners for arms offences by military courts, and how, at a time of great crisis, the rule of law evaporated and the new policy morphed into reprisal executions.