Ballymacandy : the story of an ambush
O'Shea, Owen2021
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Main title:
Ballymacandy : the story of an ambush / Owen O'Shea.
Author:
O'Shea, Owen, author
Imprint:
Newbridge : Merrion Press, 2021.
Collation:
230 pages ; [10] pages of plates ; 22 cm
Notes:
On 1 June 1921, at the height of Ireland’s War of Independence, a cycling patrol of members of the RIC was ambushed by members of the IRA at Ballymacandy, between Milltown and Castlemaine in County Kerry. After an hour of fighting, four police officers lay dead and another died a day later, among them a father of nine children. The group of IRA assailants included some of the most high-profile figures in Ireland’s ‘Tan War,’ men like Dan Keating, Jack Flynn, Dan Mulvihill, Billy Myles, and Johnny Connor, but also lesser-known figures, including members of the local Cumann na mBan. Their actions were condemned from the pulpit and an official enquiry tried to discredit the local doctor who tended to the dying men. This book comes on the centenary of an ambush that continues to resonate in its community and in a county in which the battle with Crown forces was more virulent and violent than most. Drawing on newly published witness statements and previously unpublished official records, Ballymacandy details what happened to the five men who died and those who led the attack against them, and sets the incident against the backdrop of the wider revolutionary struggle in the county.
ISBN:
9781785373879 (pbk)1785373870 (pbk)
Dewey class:
941.50821941.508
Language:
English
Subject:
Keating, Dan, 1902-2007Mulvihill, Daniel (Dan), 1897-1985Flynn, Jack, 1894-1968Myles, Billy, 1902-1922Connors, Johnny, 1899-1955Royal Irish ConstabularyIrish Republican ArmyKerry kohaKAHS 2021Ambushes and surprises -- History -- 20th centuryKerry publication -- 2021Kerry -- Local historyLocal history -- KerryKPL 2021KAHS List -- 2021History -- 20th century -- County Kerry, IrelandWar of Independence -- Co. KerryCastlemaine (Co. Kerry) -- Local historyKerry (Ireland) -- History, LocalIreland -- History -- War of Independence, 1919-1921 -- Co. Kerry (Ireland)Ballymacandy (Kerry, Ireland) -- History
BRN:
648262