Two historians have come up with as definitive a figure as can be estimated
A funeral procession for a victim of the Irish Civil War makes its way along a street crowded with mourners around 1922. Photograph: Sean Sexton/Getty Images)? More than 100 years have passed since that conflict ended, but we may finally have a near definitive figure thanks to the first systematic calculation. and independent historian John Dorney of the website The Irish Story, the figure for the Irish Free Stare is 1,426.
Glasnevin cemetery has calculated that 485 people were killed in the Easter Rising, while historians Eunan O’Halpin and Daithí Ó Corráin, in their book,, estimate that 2,850 people were killed between 1917 and the end of the War of Independence in July 1921. Combining the three works gives a figure of 4,850 people who can be confirmedto have been killed during the Irish Revolution between 1916 and the end of 1923.
It was something of a surprise for the authors to find that deaths on the pro-Treaty dead were significantly more than on the anti-Treaty side. Because of the State executions of 81 men during the Civil War, the anti-Treaty dead are much better known. The numbers killed in the Irish Civil War were small relative to civil wars in other European countries during the 20th century. A short but extremely bloody civil war in 1918 in Finland, a country with a comparable population to Ireland, saw 38,000 dead in just three months. The Russian civil war saw the deaths of an estimated eight million people and the Spanish civil war led to the deaths of an estimated 500,000.
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