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Local priest murdered by Auxiliary cadet near Dunmanway TAGS Dunmanway, 18 December 1920 - An Auxiliary cadet has been arrested for the murder of the popular Dunmanway parish priest, Canon Thomas Magner, 73, and Tadhg Crowley, a 24-year old farmer’s son. Both men were shot dead on the afternoon of 15 December. According to an official report from Dublin Castle, Cadet Vernon Hart had been in charge of 30 Auxiliaries who left Dunmanway in two lorries and were en route to Cork where they planned to attend the funeral of one of their comrades who was recently killed in an ambush at Dillon’s Cross in Cork. Witness testimony suggests that Cadet Hart had been drinking heavily and that his judgement may have been impaired. ....
The atmosphere of Cork city in the winter of 1920 was tense. In March, Lord Mayor Tomás MacCurtain had been assassinated by the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC). Terence MacSwiney, his successor, was arrested in August on charges of sedition and died on hunger strike in a London prison in October. About 30 miles west of the city on November 28, the IRA killed 17 members of the Royal Irish Constabulary’s Auxiliary Division at Kilmichael. Unsanctioned reprisals against Irish civilians and their property were privately supported by British prime minister David Lloyd George. At a speech in Carnarvon in October 1920, he made his support of this approach public when he excused the conduct of the British forces in Ireland. General Macready, the British commander-in-chief in Ireland, declared martial law in counties Cork, Kerry, Limerick and Tipperary on December 10, 1920. Under martial law, a curfew of 10pm was imposed each night. The military was allowed to carry out ‘official’ ....
Terror in Cork: the burning of a city It was an act of revenge that destroyed a city and terrorised its inhabitants. Gerry White tells the story of the Burning of Cork • 10 Dec 2020 On the morning of 11 December 1920, a climate of fear and uncertainty hung over the city of Cork. Though Christmas was a mere two weeks away, the people of the city had little to be cheerful about. That morning, Cork was a city at war. The previous eleven months had seen Cork No. 1 Brigade of the IRA intensify its campaign of guerrilla warfare against the forces of the Crown. In response, the British authorities had sent Black and Tans reinforcements to the RIC, imposed curfew, introduced Martial Law and deployed K Company of the Auxiliary Division of the RIC to Victoria Barracks. A series of nocturnal arson attacks on the City Hall, Sinn Féin offices, business premises and the homes of republican sympathisers had also taken place. ....