MEC: TY English Workbook 2020 - 2021 | Page 159

Short Story Writing Select any of these photos and artwork to inspire you to write a short story. Ireland's Civil War in colour 1922. Free State Soldiers take a break from fighting on the street in Dublin possibly during the fighting of the Four Courts where wounded men are being tended to while others catch their breath. The Irish Civil War was a conflict that followed the Irish War of Independence and came alongside the establishment of the Irish Free State, an entity independent from the United Kingdom but within the British Empire. The Civil War was waged between two opposing groups, Irish republicans and Irish nationalists, over the Anglo-Irish Treaty, 1921. 159