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#GerryAdams welcomes historian #GerardShannon for a remarkable interview about Shannon's new book on #IRA leader #RoryOConnor, who was executed during the #IrishCivilWar

https://www.buzzsprout.com/991288/episodes/19182769-special-episode-in-conversation-with-author-gerard-shannon
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A ceasefire in the Irish War of Independence began on 11 July 1921. The post-ceasefire talks led to the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty on 6 December 1921. This ended British rule in most of Ireland and, after a ten-month transitional period overseen by a provisional government, the Irish Free State was created as a self-governing Dominion on 6 December 1922.

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"It was the Presentation nuns who made a rebel of me - This article explores the interconnections between female religious orders and nationalist activity of the Irish Revolutionary Era (1912–23) arguing that they played important roles in the Revolutionary Era both in facilitating engagement with nationalist ideas and in supporting revolutionary activity itself."

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09612025.2022.2027072#abstract

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On 28 April 1921 a public notice warned the people of Tipperary that 'a civilian with his hands in his pockets is necessarily an object of suspicion … and renders him liable to arrest and, in an emergency, runs the risk of coming under fire.'

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On the 27 April 1921 in Listowel, County Kerry, a proclamation was posted by the military stating that in future reprisals for any outbreak against the lives and property of officials would be taken against the property of selected persons without proof of their implication in the outrage.

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Maud Gonne MacBride (Maud Nic Ghoinn Bean Mhic Giolla Bhríghde) died on 27 April 1953. She was an English-born Irish republican revolutionary, suffragette and actress. Of Anglo-Irish descent, she was won over to Irish nationalism by the plight of evicted people in the Land Wars. She actively agitated for Home Rule and then for the republic declared in 1916. She was long-time love interest of WB Yeats.

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...as a protest against the British Army's declaration of a "Special Military Area" under the Defence of the Realm Act, which covered most of Limerick city and a part of the county. The soviet ran the city for the period, printed its own money and organised the supply of food. 2/2

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The Limerick Soviet (Sóivéid Luimnigh) was one of a number of self-declared Irish soviets that were formed around Ireland around 1919. The Limerick Soviet existed for a two-week period from 14 to 27 April 1919. At the beginning of the Irish War of Independence, a general strike was organised by the Limerick Trades and Labour Council... 1/2

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Cumann na mBan was formed in Dublin on 2 April 1914. In 1916, it became an auxiliary of the Irish Volunteers. Cumann na mBan was active in the War of Independence and took the anti-Treaty side in the Civil War. Cumann na mBan was declared an illegal organisation by the government of the Irish Free State in 1923.

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Tomás MacCurtain, the Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Cork, was shot dead in front of his wife and son by a group of men with blackened faces on 20th March 1920. The murderers were subsequently found by the official inquest into the event to be members of the Royal Irish Constabulary. MacCurtain was also commandant of the Cork No. 1 Brigade of the IRA.

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Among Clancy's friends at the university were James Joyce and Francis Sheehy-Skeffington. Clancey features as the character Michael Davin, in Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. 2/2

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On the night of 6 March 1921 The Lord Mayor of Limerick, George Clancy, his predecessor, Michael O’Callaghan, and another prominent nationalist, Joseph O’Donoghue, are killed by policemen in Limerick during curfew hours. 1/2

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The Irish War of Independence began on 21 January 1919. Sinn Féin TDs assembled in Dublin, forming the First Dáil and issuing the Irish Declaration of Independence. On the same day the Soloheadbeg ambush took place. IRA volunteers of the 3rd Tipperary Brigade led by Séumas Robinson and including Seán Treacy and Dan Breen, acting on their own initiative, ambushed and killed two RIC officers at Soloheadbeg, County Tipperary.

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Kevin Barry was born on 20 January 1902. He an 18 year old medical student who was executed in 1920 for his part in an attack upon a British Army supply lorry which resulted in the deaths of three British soldiers. His execution inflamed nationalist public opinion in Ireland, largely because of his age.

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The first contingents of the Black and Tans began arriving in Ireland on 7 January 1920. Alongside the Auxiliaries, the Black and Tans went on to commit many of atrocities and terrorise the civilian population in Ireland.

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Coyle was one of twenty female prisoners to escape on 7 May 1923. She was recaptured the following day however. Coyle was finally released from Kilmainham in December 1923.

Coyle was appointed to the executive of Cumann na mBan in 1924 and was elected as president in 1926, after Constance Markievicz resigned to join Fianna Fáil. It was a post she held until her resignation in 1941. 4/4

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In September 1922 the Provisional Government decided to crack down on the activities of Cumann na mBan renegades and Coyle was the first member to be arrested as part of this move.

Initially held at Ballyshannon she became the first Cumann na mBan member to go on hunger strike, refusing food for seven days. Coyle was eventually taken to Mountjoy Prison from which she was transferred to Kilmainham. 3/4

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She noted in her private papers, 'I read a newspaper during the whole comedy and only raised my eyes once to tell the presiding officer that he was wasting his precious time, as I did not recognise his sham court, as I spoke Irish one of the police had to translate my seven words of wisdom.'

Following the Anglo-Irish Treaty Coyle supported the anti-treaty faction. 2/4

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Eithne Ni Cumhaill (Eithne Coyle) was born on 3 January 1897. She was an Irish republican activist, a leading figure within Cumann na mBan, an IRA officer and a member of the Gaelic League.

She was arrested on New Years Day 1921 and subsequently sentenced to three years penal servitude for aiding IRA members. In keeping with Cumann na mBan policy, she refused to recognize the court during her trial. 1/4

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ON 27th December 1969 Dan Breen died. He was an IRA leader during the War of Independence and the Civil War. Breen was born in Grange, Donohill parish, County Tipperary. His father died when he was six, leaving the family very poor. In January 1927, he became the first anti-Treaty TD to take the Oath of Allegiance and sit in the Dáil Éireann after the establishment of the Irish Free State.

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The burning of Cork by British forces took place on the night of 11-12 December 1920. It followed an IRA ambush of a British Auxiliary patrol. In retaliation, the Auxiliaries, Black and Tans and British soldiers burned homes near the ambush site, before looting and burning buildings in the centre of Cork. Many civilians reported being beaten, shot at, and robbed by British forces.

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Kevin Barry was executed by the British Government on 1 November 1920 during the Irish War of Independence. He was sentenced to death for his part in an attack upon a British Army supply lorry which resulted in the deaths of three British soldiers. He was eighteen years old when he was executed.

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On 30 October 1921 May Burke, Eithne Coyle, Linda Kearns and a fourth woman, Aileen Keogh escaped from Mountjoy Prison having organised a football match as a distraction. A rope ladder from outside was used to climb the walls to freedom. They made their way to Duckett’s Grove IRA training camp in Carlow, where they hid out until December 1921.

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On 25 October 1920 Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Cork, Terence MacSwiney died in Brixton Prison after 74 days on hunger strike. He was arrested by the British on charges of sedition. His death brought him and the Irish struggle to international attention.

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On 25 October 1920 Terence MacSwiney, Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Cork, fell into a coma and died five days later after 74 days on hunger strike in Brixton prison. MacSwiney's hunger strike gained world attention. The British Government was threatened with a boycott of British goods by Americans, while four countries in South America appealed to the Pope to intervene. Protests were held in Germany and France as well.

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On 20th September 1920 the Black and Tans burn the town of Balbriggan in County Dublin and killed two local men in revenge for an IRA assassination.

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