Ballymacandy
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Ballymacandy

The Story of a Kerry Ambush

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Ballymacandy

The Story of a Kerry Ambush

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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 Drawing on newly published witness statements and previously unpublished official records, Ballymacandy details what happened the five men who died and those who led the attack against them and sets the incident against the backdrop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.

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Publisher
Merrion Press
Year
2021
ISBN
9781785373893
Edition
1
Topic
History
Subtopic
Irish History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title page
  3. Copyright page
  4. Contents
  5. Foreword: Dr Mary McAuliffe
  6. Preface
  7. Prologue – Salve Regina
  8. 1. ‘A rough and dangerous task’
  9. 2. ‘We were nearly stone mad ... half crazy’
  10. 3. ‘Take up the cudgel ... to remedy this unfortunate village’
  11. 4. ‘Fairyland’
  12. 5. ‘Our state gets worse’
  13. 6. ‘The Hut’
  14. 7. ‘We rode on ... carrying our revolvers in our hands’
  15. 8. ‘He would not turn off his road for any Shinner’
  16. 9. ‘Blood was slowly trickling from his left ear’
  17. 10. ‘Guilty of wilful murder’
  18. 11. ‘This ambush ought not to have occurred’
  19. 12. ‘What Dev did in Boland’s Mills, Jack Flynn did at Ballymacandy’
  20. 13. ‘Honesty is the best of policy’
  21. Postscript – ‘They are the fellows that put us here’
  22. Appendix I: List of participants in the Ballymacandy Ambush, 1 June 1921
  23. Appendix II: Members of Milltown District Council of Cumann na mBan, July 1921
  24. Acknowledgements
  25. Endnotes
  26. Index
  27. Plates