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Brother against brother: the Civil War in Kerry
The Irish Civil War has often been described as the war of the brothers. Families were sometimes split down the middle in disagreement over the
June 9, 2022
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‘We rode on … carrying our revolvers in our hands’
An extract from ‘Ballymacandy: The Story of a Kerry Ambush’ by Owen O’Shea (Merrion Press, 2021) The police completed their business in Tralee by 2.45pm
November 5, 2021
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What I learned while researching the war in my community
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
May 7, 2021