Page 13 - Crown Forces News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Almost 40 years on, while preparing for another conflict to decide the issue of the Border, the house would be where my mother would meet my father for the first time. It would also be where my grand-aunt would have her election HQ when she ran for Sinn Féin in the general election of 1957, garnering 3,171 first preferences. On the day of the burning the British soldiers marched up the long bohereen to the house, past the fort field with its almost intact fairy fort and souterrain, which, according to family lore, provided shelter for many an IRA man. They also passed the stone steps up t...

War in the streets - 100th anniversary of the Dromcollogher Ambush Reporter: 14 May 2021 The shop that replaced Murray's was the fine premises run by John Galvin. Now of course Meaney's Centra Supermarket trades on this site | PICTURE: dromheritage.ie ');  '); TODAY marks the 100 year anniversary of the Dromcollogher Ambush, an incident from the War of Independence that took place on the streets of the village on May 14, 1921. A patrol from the local RIC barracks (the former St Mary’s Secondary school on the Cork Road) is described by the Irish Military Archives as comprising of sixteen m...

Cork Newspapers were “Actors and Reporters” Following the Rising Pictured (l-r): Dr Michael Murphy, President of UCC; student Alan McCarthy from Charleville; and Professor Liam Marnane, Dean of Graduate Studies, UCC at the launch of the fifth volume of The Boolean. Photo: Donagh Glavin By R. Bryan Willits, Editorial Assistant An article written by Alan McCarthy, a first-year Ph.D. student in the School of History at University College Cork (UCC), reveals the unique importance of County Cork newspapers following the 1916 Easter Rising and the difficulties they fa...

Leitrim’s Bloody Sunday  '); The date of Friday, 11th March 1921, will be forever etched in the memory of those who follow history. This was Leitrim’s ‘Bloody Sunday’, when six young men were gunned down in their prime by the Black 'n Tans writes Cormac O'Súilleabháin, Author of Leitrim’s Republican Story In every conflict there is always an event or tragedy which stands out above all others. Something that strikes a chord within people and never leaves your mind. For the people of Leitrim, the Selton Hill Ambush is that event. The date of Friday, 11th March 1921 will be forev...

John Arnold: I wept as I recalled 14 men for whom the Clonmult bells tolled John Arnold recalls the bravery and heroism of those who died at Clonmult, a century ago Members of the commemoration committee Jim Ronayne, Sean Hennessy, Tom O'Neill, PRO: Christy O'Sullivan, chairman; Mick Hegarty, Jim O'Callaghan, Fr Barry O'Flynn, Dungourney; Mary Barron and Tim O'Sullivan secretary at ceremony for the 100th anniversary of the Clonmult ambush in East Cork on Saturday February 20. John Arnold AT about 8pm last Sunday, the strains of Amhráin na bh Fiann rang out across the valley from the townlan...