Would you not write a book yourself? There’s a rough draft at least on here.
Will you pay me to do it?
Anyway, I could very well end up doing it on the back of this archive.
Colouring book?
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I’ll proof read it for free.
The O’Rourke one is the only one I’ve read myself. I’ll have an ask around of the local historians.
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That’s great kid… I’ll get my hands on them.
From a military point of view the Kilmichael ambush along with Tom Barrys memoirs has been studied from Nazi Germany to Japan to West point in the US and the NVA.It has been hailed as one of the best examples of guerilla warfare and also a prime example of creating an almost perfect kill zone by exploiting the terrain in you favour.
Ye can’t bate the auld farmers for knowing the terrain
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You’re going to burgle my house?
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As a last resort, yes.
One of those weekends he’s blowing about being down in Dunmore, up on the train and ransack the place.
I’ll wait till he is back on his feet…make it a fair chase.
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Don’t ransack the house. I’ll leave them out on the desk in the library for you.
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Largely by Tom Barry, in fairness.
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Very un-Cork like…
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Tom was very fond of himself in fairness
Tom learnt from the best, the British army
To be fair the escape at Crossbarry was probably the most impressive single manoeuvre pulled off by any unit in the war. In almost any other episode of Irish history they’d all have been killed.
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