Profs & Pints DC: Ireland's Fight for Freedom

Profs and Pints DC presents: “Ireland’s Fight for Freedom,” with Kevin Matthews, assistant professor of European history at George Mason University and former London correspondent for Vatican Radio reporting on British and Irish news.

After centuries of struggle, Irish men and women won their freedom from Great Britain after waging a war that set the pattern for all other independence struggles of the 20th century. But there was a price — the partition of their country, a split setting the stage for the Northern Ireland “Troubles” that didn’t end until 1998.

Gain a deeper understanding of Ireland and its history with Professor Kevin Matthews, a historian and frequent Smithsonian Associates speaker who had served as a journalist covering the last stages of the Troubles in Ireland in the early and mid 1990s.

He’ll discuss in depth how the Irish won independence in a two-year war between 1919 and 1921, covering topics…