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Meda Ryan disputed his claim to have personally interviewed two Kilmichael Ambush veterans in 1988–89, a rifleman and a scout. [38] Ryan stated that just one ambush veteran, Ned Young, was alive then. Young died on 13 November 1989, aged 97. The second last reported surviving veteran of the Kilmichael Ambush, Jack O'Sullivan, died in December ...
For lists of Irish Republican Army ambushes, see: List of IRA ambushes of the Irish War of Independence (1919–1921); List of Provisional IRA ambushes (1970–1998); The following articles include ambushes by other Irish Republican Army organisations:
Its actions were focused on the West Cork area, and included the Kilmichael Ambush in November 1920, which resulted in the deaths of 18 members of the Auxiliary Division, and the Crossbarry Ambush of March 1921, during which the unit escaped encirclement by 1,200 British troops. [2] [3] Other activities, planned by the unit, were aborted.
28 November – Kilmichael Ambush: The flying column of the 3rd Cork Brigade IRA, led by Tom Barry, ambushed two lorries carrying Auxiliaries at Kilmichael, County Cork, killing seventeen (with three of its men also dying), which led to official reprisals. [3] 10 December – Martial law was declared in Counties Cork, Kerry, Limerick and ...
The Kilmichael memorial. However, Barry soon came to command the West Cork Brigade's flying column and definitively made his name as a guerrilla commander at the Kilmichael Ambush on 28 November 1920. This was a turning point of the war, when a company of 18 Auxiliaries was wiped out at the cost three IRA killed. [23]
Todd Andrews (1901–1985), a member of the Irish Volunteers serving in the Irish War of Independence and participated in a 10-day hunger strike in 1920. He was later interned during the Irish Civil War after siding with Anti-Treaty forces before becoming a civil servant in his later years, most prominently as chairman of the Irish transport ...
One was the Kilmichael Ambush of 28 November 1920. Hart challenged the account of commander Tom Barry who stated the Auxiliaries engaged in a false surrender that caused two IRA fatalities, after which Barry refused further surrender calls and ordered a fight to the finish without prisoners. Hart posited this never happened and alleged that ...
The Kilmichael Ambush took place near the village during the Irish War of Independence. The actual fight took place in the townlands of Haremount (Cnocán an Ghiorria in Irish) and Shanacashel (Seanchaiseal). [3] The Kilmichael Ambush site is marked by a monument which is approximately 3.2 km (2 mi) south of the village. [4]