Grisly secrets of the ‘disappeared’ of Anglo-Irish war uncovered by research

Irish state's founding fathers killed and disappeared five times more people than Provisional IRA would do over 30 years

The Irish Republican Army's executioners shot and secretly buried their victims in fields and bogs, leaving them to decay and enter the ranks of Ireland's disappeared".

Some were British soldiers, others were suspected informers or turncoats. Uncertainty about their fate and the location of their remains added a cruel twist to a brutal conflict.