Learnings from researching the ambush at Ballymacandy History isn’t really an interest of mine: it’s more like an obsession. It’s difficult to adequately articulate what
Despite much activity in County Kerry during the week-long Easter Rising in 1916, there was just one discharge of a weapon in the county during
My new book on the Ballymacandy Ambush will be published shortly by Merrion Press. The ambush, which took place on the 1st of June 1921,
A century ago, the women of Cumann na mBan played a critically important role in the Irish War of Independence, a role which has often
Research on the War of Independence in Kerry can throw up some extraordinary stories involving civilians who came close to being caught up in the
Dan Allman’s brother: the formidable republican cleric, Fr Myles Allman of Rockfield Daniel Allman of Rockfield in the parish of Listry is one of best-known
One of the great benefits of the publication, in recent years, of new archive material from the Irish revolutionary period is the availability of the
There is little dispute that Kerry was the location of the many of the worst excesses of the Irish Civil War and that it was
Jeremiah Daniel (JD) Sheehan was a national politician of some significance and holds an important place in the political record books. Born in Ards, Fossa
A significant precursor to the Ballymacandy Ambush of June 1921 Next Saturday, 27 February, marks the centenary of the death of IRA member, Joseph (Joe)
John (Jack) Flynn was a very successful and long-serving TD for Kerry. A veteran of the War of Independence, he fought with the Sixth Battalion
The Fenian and Irish Republican Brotherhood leader, Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa (1831-1915) holds a prominent position in the pantheon of Irish republican and nationalist leaders. Most
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