Killed on the ground, heroic.
The Black and Tans were not in Ireland at the time.
Nice bit of whataboutery though.
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Yes they should have brought them back to their cottages and given them their tea.
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Fagan just because you stroll around with a few other lads with maps and compasses at these sites doesn’t mean you’d have been anywhere near it.
Give over.
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odd comment
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You know that’s what Home Rule would have meant.
Tans is also a general word for Brits( all troops) not just the auxiliaries who were here,know here at home the whures are anyway
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Home rule Rome rule ask any good Jaffa
Walking tours is one of his recurring jibes at me. Ive no idea why.
Must be a story there?
As you seem to think that you or anyone else here would have been involved.
The numbers were tiny.
None of you lads would have had the balls to do it. The only fighting half of you’d have seen would have been in as part of the British army, which is regularly disparaged here.
Talking about the Tans here and Boris Johnson, nothing to do with talking about the conduct of this attack.
Florrie O’Donoghue had a place to take them below in Knockraha
Every day is a school day on TFK, turns out that nothing happened in Cork city from 1919-21???
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My grand uncle was Director of Intelligence for his local Ira brigade while my uncles earliest memory is the Black and Tans searching his house for the guns my grandfather had hidden there
Myself, I served in the Irish Defence Forces.
There’s a fair chance I’d have been involved.
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Think the guys here don’t know a lot ref Irish history during the war of independence/ civil war
Doesent warrant an answer to him fagan, considering tens of thousands of war pensions were handed out his numbers are off,and any one with any knowledge ref guerilla warfare knows even the smallest action needs,houses,cars, clothes,money , intelligence gathering,but most important the support of the general public,so his assumption that numbers were few is incorrect ,any even mediocre operation needs between 8/ 20 persons
Any British regiment you want Tim. The RIC recruited the absolute scum of Britain for the Irish jobs
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@Tim_Riggins would have been fumbling in the greasy till adding the hapence to the pence with the rest of the merchant class that backed Home Rule.
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Martial law was first introduced in Cork city,then county,then Munster,the Munster republic held out the longest,and last to fall,88 anti treaty prisoners died at De Valera’s whim, thousands more interned,my Kerry grandfather among them,more like him lost land, exiled and didn’t receive their war of independence pensions until 30 off years later
Jesus
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Correct