your club is dying
Is this actually true? Fascinating. Its Shamrock Rovers I assume. Must delve deeper…
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Widely known. A joke of a club
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We have sister clubs in England
It’s all true on you tube
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Some time after midnight, on Thursday night, the 5th of August 1920 the New Ross Standard reports that an explosion was heard coming from Fethard RIC barracks which was followed by a blaze. The following morning ‘… it (the barracks) was completely burned down, practically nothing being left but the walls.’ The building had been vacated by the police several weeks before.
Michael Conway, who was a survivor of the Saltmills explosion, described the burning of Fethard barracks in his withness statement to the Bureau of Military History and it offers an explanation for the explosion reported to have been heard in Fethard on the night. He states:
‘We were instructed to destroy R.I.C. Barracks which the police had vacated. The first one we destroyed was at Tintern; the second was at Fethard-on-Sea where we tested our first bombs made out of the boxes of cart-wheels. They proved to be most successful. During this operation I got a bad fright. When we were sprinkling the floors and woodwork of the barracks with petrol I went Into the day-room with two others. Then an explosion took place inside the barracks. The door banged and locked. I had the bombs in my coat pocket. As luck happened, I was able to kick out the door panels with my foot and got out on to the road. The barracks by this time was in flames. I threw off my coat as I felt the heat on my back. I then threw the bombs through the top windows into the blazing barracks. They exploded and blew the roof completely off the barracks.’
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Lucky boy escaping from that
Class!
that wasnt his first dance with danger. I posted up the memorial plaque recently of the bomb making house that blew up an is referenced in that article. This is a more detailed account of it and the subsequent arrest and story of those men.
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That’s gruesome poor devils, joe Murphy was a lucky boy, that’s the v first I’ve heard of that massacre , then to be fucked about into different prisons etc, open a side note where was Michael Fitzgerald from ? In case you know, was he Kerry?
We have what we have no questions, not at all saying other parts of Ireland weren’t at it no way, FYI my relatives in the WOI and civil war bar 2 were North Kerry men
They thrived in the 6 counties for one reason thousands of scotch anti Roman Catholic bastards moved into lands cleared
Stated on the newspaper report that he is from St Leonards which would be a mile or two from where this explosion happened. So I’m assuming he is local stock. Most of the surnames are all still around the locality, wouldnt be sure of full family tree lineage or anything, but would seem to have been all local and many still around.
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Thank you grandad brother was at it up there somewhere, same name but survived
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There’s so much of that period thats relatively unknown. I don’t think there is even a comprehensive history book written with all those little incidents included on a nationwide level.
Interesting to read the tensions between the British army and the black and tans in that account had never heard anything like that before
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Yeah even though this happened down the road from me and I knew all about the explosion and what was going on during that time, I’d never heard the aftermath of the story and being transported around etc. As you say, there is little documentation or records spread at a wide public level, its only nerds like @Thomas_Brady who go through all the history and details of them all.
Can’t believe likes of diarmuid ferriter hasn’t written a good readable history of the period. We’re missing out on all the centenary commemorations too now cos of this cunt of a covid.
Good point
Now you have it…academia is self serving… But it pays little to research and write these books also.
Did you get the Atlas of the Irish revolution? I loaned mine out and never got it back but it might be a good starting point.
I honestly feel it’s one of the most written about periods in history for what it was, most counties involved appear to have their own histories written into books also
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