With the IRA in the Fight for Freedom: 1919 to the Truce: The Red Path of Glory

by Gabriel Doherty (Editor), The Kerryman (With)

Overview

With the IRA in the Fight for Freedom offers eyewitness and first hand accounts of Ireland's struggle for independence in various parts of the country. It presents a representative picture of the fight by the IRA for independence and of the reign of terror endured by the civilian population. Only idealism and courage on the part of the freedom fighters and the steadfast support of the Irish people could have carried such an unequal struggle through to the end.With barracks attacks, ambushes and shootings, it brings to life a conflict that is fading from the collective memory of county and country and offers a fascinating perspective on the struggle for independence, directly from the men who took part in the actions themselves.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781856357036
Publisher:	Mercier Press, Limited, The
Publication date:	06/01/2010
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	448
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Originally published in The Kerryman, a weekly local newspaper published in County Kerry, Ireland. It was founded in 1904. It is one of Ireland's leading regional newspapers. http://www.kerryman.ie/
Gabriel Doherty teaches in the Department of History, University College Cork. He received his BA in Modern History from Oxford University, having studied at Magdalen College between 1986 and 1989.

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Re-issue of the classic text on the struggle for independence in Ireland, covering battles in Monaghan, Meath, Longford, Roscommon, Dublin, Clare, Mayo, Galway, Tipperary, Limerick and Cork. With the IRA in the Fight for Freedom offers eyewitness and first hand accounts of Ireland's struggle for independence in various parts of the country. It presents a representative picture of the fight by the IRA for independence and of the reign of terror endured by the civilian population. Only idealism and courage on the part of the freedom fighters and the steadfast support of the Irish people could have carried such an unequal struggle through to the end.

With barracks attacks, ambushes and shootings, it brings to life a conflict that is fading from the collective memory of county and country and offers a fascinating perspective on the struggle for independence, directly from the men who took part in the actions themselves.

Table of Contents

CONTENTS INTRODUCTION ORIGINAL PREFACE THE ANGLO-IRISH WAR THE CONSTITUTIONAL BASIS OF THE NATIONAL STRUGGLE THE DUBLIN SCENE: WAR AMID THE OUTWARD TRAPPINGS OF PEACE ORDEAL BY FIRE: HOW CORK CITY FACED THE TERROR ARMS AND AMMUNITION TAKEN FROM NAVAL SLOOP LYING IN BANTRY BAY LORD FRENCH WAS NOT DESTINED TO DIE BY AN IRISH BULLET MONAGHAN MEN'S BAPTISM OF FIRE AT CAPTURE OF BALLYTRAIN RIC POST ROOF FIRE TECHNIQUE WAS EXPLOITED IN CAPTURE OF BALLYLANDERS BARRACKS HISTORY REPEATED ITSELF IN THE ATTACK ON KILMALLOCK BARRACKS IN 1920 A CLEVER RUSE LEADS TO DISARMING OF HIGHLANDERS NEAR MIDLETON HORSE FAIR WAS BACKGROUND TO WELL-REHEARSED COUP IN ENNIS A FIGHTING REARGUARD SAVED IRA IN THE RETREAT AFTER THE AMBUSH AT RINEEN THE ONLY BRITISH MILITARY BARRACKS CAPTURED BY THE IRA WAS AT MALLOW INSIDE INFORMATION ACTED ON EFFICIENTLY LED TO FALL OF TRIM BARRACKS THE RUAN RIC LET THEIR DEFENCES DOWN SLIGHTLY AND IN CAME THE IRA A TIPPERARY COLUMN LAYING FOR RIC HAD TO FIGHT MILITARY AT THOMASTOWN GRENADE BURSTS HERALDED ATTACK ON ELEVEN LORRIES AT BALLINALEE FOURTEEN BRITISH OFFICERS AND AGENTS EXECUTED IN DUBLIN ON 'BLOODY SUNDAY' AUXILIARIES WIPED OUT AT KILMICHAEL IN THEIR FIRST CLASH WITH THE IRA THE SACKING OF CORK CITY BY THE BRITISH QUICK CHANGE OF PLAN WAS NECESSARY TO COUNTER THE ENEMY AT MONREAL THE AMBUSH AT GLENWOOD QUICK ON THE UPTAKE: IRA INTELLIGENCE PAVED WAY TO SUCCESS AT TUREENGARRIFFE DROMKEEN AMBUSH RESTORED THE MORALE OF THE LOCAL IRA AND PEOPLE DRISHANEBEG TRAIN AMBUSH YIELDED FOURTEEN RIFLES TO MILLSTREET COLUMN ESCAPE OF THREE LEADERS FROM KILMAINHAM WAS AIDED BY BRITISH SOLDIER BRITISH GENERAL KILLED IN ACTION AGAINST CORK AND KERRY IRA AT CLONBANIN ENCIRCLING BRITISH FORCES TAKEN ON IN TURN AND SMASHED AT CROSSBARRY TOO EARLY ARRIVAL OF TRAIN ROBBED IRA OF FRUITS OF VICTORY AT HEADFORD SCRAMOGUE AMBUSH DID NOT MAKE FOR HAPPY RELATIONS BETWEEN LANCERS AND TANS HEAVILY GUARDED, WOUNDED PRISONER RESCUED FROM MONAGHAN COUNTY HOSPITAL ACTION BY WEST CONNEMARA COLUMN AT MOUNTEROWEN THIRTY IRA MEN DEFIED 600 BRITISH TROOPS AT TOURMAKEADY CAPTURED ARMOURED CAR DRIVEN INTO MOUNTJOY IN ATTEMPT TO RESCUE MACEOIN THE BURNING OF THE CUSTOM HOUSE IN DUBLIN CRIPPLED BRITISH CIVIL ADMINISTRATION UNLIKELY AMBUSH POSITION WAS DELIBERATELY CHOSEN NEAR CASTLEMAINE LANDMINES USED AGAINST LORRY-BORNE AUXILIARIES AT RATHCOOLE