By Peter Hart
This booklet explores the lives, deaths, enemies, and sufferers of the main strong guerrillas of twentieth-century eire: these of the Cork I.R.A. among 1916 and 1923. Drawing on an extraordinary physique of assets, together with a variety of interviews it is a uniquely intimate examine of revolution, guerrilla struggle, and ethnic clash.
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47 This seems a rather meagre (and dated) reason to kill someone, perhaps cobbled together afterwards by the gunmen to defend their action to their superiors. A. man told O'Donoghue's son that he had identified an army deserter in Watergrasshill in 1920 but O'Brien made no mention of this. The real reason may lie in his phrase 'we hit back'. A. commander, had died on 25 October after a seventy-three-day hunger strike. A. documents or memoirs. A. was quite active. ). 47 Interview with Charlie O'Brien (O'Donoghue Diary).
3 In West Cork, and in Ireland as a whole, Kilmichael became the most celebrated victory of rebel arms, the archetypal ambush. 4 Barry's, and ' This song was written shortly after the ambush and became hugely popular in Cork and throughout Ireland. Its author is unknown, although it may have been a local teacher, Jeremiah O'Mahony (see Flor Crowley, In West Cork Long Ago (Cork, 1979), 18-19). Several slightly different versions exist—the one quoted here is the one I have heard sung most often, which is printed in Ewan Butler, Barry's Flying Column (London, 1971), 173-4.
An Auxiliary patrol might appear at any time, day or night. They were fast, well armed, and strong in numbers. There were no small bicycle patrols to provide easy targets. Micheal O'Suilleabhain remembered them as: A tough crowd. I knew them well. I had seen them jump walls with their rifles in their hands, hampered by their revolvers and other equipment. They travelled by night and day on bye roads, and came from totally unexpected directions. 30 This label may well apply to other units or to the record of the Auxiliary Division as a whole, but it does not fit 'C' Company.