My father in law had great work put into a commemoration event to be held this year for a different incident but they had to scrap it cause of covid. Awful pity. I suppose they might be able to do an event in 2021 but it wouldn’t be the same.
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I think the lack of centenary celebrations is ideal for FG in their hypocritical campaign about sfs past. Themselves, the 5G crowd and Toby with his hatred of pubs have engineered this whole thing.
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Problem is if ppl don’t insist on these Uber important events to happen they won’t, next few years those who took the anti treaty side and died or ended up maimed or having to leave the country will be quietly forgotten if the free state government have anything to do with it , ppl should remember the treaty vote wasn’t a huge majority
Will there be a commemoration at Ballyseedy ?
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Reckon definitely, Kerry boys won’t leave that pass
For the weekend that it’s in it, there’s a great breakdown of the fraudulent history produced by Peter Hart in this version of the Irish History show.
Gets into it around 23 mins in and describes how he engaged in all manner of dodgy scholarship to present the IRA as sectarian in West Cork, and how his whole thesis started to fall apart once people started to take a closer look at his sources.
Because it was useful for attacking Republicans in the North it was just accepted without question by the Irish political media. Despite lots of questions about his evidence being raised by local historians right from the start.
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I’d say without being even a wee bit paranoid, brit dirty tricks helped Hart and co ,( in some way or shape/ they’re the worlds best at it) course our own shysters in Leinster house 
were delighted, deflecting, deflecting etc etc
Dan Breens my fight for Irish freedom on TG4 at half 9 in case ye are interested.
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Col Smyth was assassinated in the “ grocers club” which became one of Tom Barry’s haunts
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Powerful
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Edit If I can put my hands on Whittles book today I’ll post up the diagrams
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That’s all new to me, 
the youghal fuckers didn’t exactly set the place alight either
From I’ve read i don’t remember many stories of the IRA having established routes for the importation of arms and ammunition into the country. Had they much of a network?
No they hadn’t which is why capturing weapons from the Black and Tans was so important. The only real mass importation was the Asgard in Howth and most of those rifles went Redmond’s volunteers. As a matter of interest a decoy landing was set up at Little Island in Waterford in the parish of Ballygunner near where I grew up and the British were watching that like a hawk when the guns landed in Howth.
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That must have been a major failing of HQ. It couldn’t have been that hard to secure a semi regular supply of ammo from Europe or America?
Just finished “On another mans wound” by Ernie O’Malley
Enjoyed the parts in Dublin more so than the parts where Ernie was moving from county to county (unsurprisingly the Kilkenny lads seemed to be stone cold useless), was really a case of living day to day
Anyone recommend any other books from this period by anyone involved in the war of independence.
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