Terror in Ireland 1916-1923

249 Pages·2013·4.65 MB·English

by  Fitzpatrick

Terror in Ireland 1916–1923
edited by David Fitzpatrick
Trinity History Workshop
THE LILLIPUT PRESS
DUBLIN
In memory of Peter David Hart, born 11 November 1963, died 22 July
2010.
Contents
Title Page
Dedication
Illustrations
Abbreviations
1. Introduction
DAVID FITZPATRICK
2. Terror in Twentieth-Century Ireland
BRIAN HANLEY
3. ‘The shadow of a great fear’: Terror and Revolutionary Ireland
ANNE DOLAN
4. Violence and the Easter Rising
c
FEARGHAL M GARRY
5. The Sack of Balbriggan and Tit-for-Tat Terror
ROSS O’MAHONY
6. The Price of Balbriggan
DAVID FITZPATRICK
7. ‘English Dogs’ or ‘Poor Devils’? The Dead of Bloody Sunday Morning
JANE LEONARD
8. Counting Terror: Bloody Sunday and The Dead of the Irish Revolution
EUNAN O’HALPIN
9. Kilmichael Revisited: Tom Barry and the ‘False Surrender’
EVE MORRISON
10. The Execution of ‘Spies and Informers’ in West Cork, 1921
THOMAS EARLS FITZGERALD
11. Revolution and Terror in Kildare, 1919–1923
MICHAEL MURPHY
12. Persecuting the Peelers
BRIAN HUGHES
13. Terror Confined? Prison Violence in Ireland, 1919–1921
JUSTIN DOLAN STOVER
14. Republican Terrorism in Britain, 1920–1923
GERARD NOONAN
Plates
Copyright
Illustrations
Plates
Coercion in Revolutionary Dublin
1. ‘The tank preserving the peace in disordered Dublin’ (The Graphic, 28 Feb.
1920)
2. ‘A motorist being searched by one of the military pickets’ (The Graphic, 10
Apr. 1920)
The Sack of Balbriggan
3. ‘Hosiery mills, Balbriggan’ (Fingal Local Studies Collection)
4. ‘The Square, Balbriggan’ (Fingal Local Studies Collection)
5. ‘The campaign of lawlessness in Ireland’ (The Graphic, 25 Sept. 1920)
6. ‘Part of a row of cottages which were destroyed by fire’ (The Graphic, 25
Sept. 1920)
Bloody Sunday
7. 119 Lower Baggot St, sidelong view (Jane Leonard, 2010)
8. 92 Lower Baggot St (Jane Leonard, 2010)
9. 38 Upper Mount St (Jane Leonard, 2010)
10. ‘A house of death’, 22 Lower Mount St (The Graphic, 27 Nov. 1920)
11. 28 Upper Pembroke St, portico (Jane Leonard, 2010)
12. 28 Upper Pembroke St, rear (Jane Leonard, 2010)
13. ‘Murder most foul in Dublin: the blackest Sunday in Irish history’ (The
Graphic, 27 Nov. 1920)
14. ‘A field of death: where Hogan fell in Croke Park football ground struggle’
(The Graphic, 27 Nov. 1920)
15. Mrs Woodcock and Mrs Keenlyside (The Graphic, 27 Nov. 1920)
Aftermath of the Kilmichael Ambush
16. ‘The Martyrs of the Macroom Massacres’ (The Graphic, 11 Dec. 1920)
Maps and Charts
Map of properties affected by the Sack of Balbriggan
Copy of map showing location of casualties and positions at Kilmichael Ambush
Political inmates in Belfast prison, 1 May–31 December 1918
Number of days served by Mountjoy prison rioters, October 1919
Abbreviations
BMH Bureau of Military History

CC Chief Constable

CI County Inspector

CID Criminal Investigation Department

CILI Court of Inquiry in Lieu of Inquest

CMO Courts Martial Officer

CO Colonial Office

CS Chief of Staff

Parliamentary Debates: Official Report
DD DÉ,

DÉ Dáil Éireann

DED District Electoral Division

DMP Dublin Metropolitan Police

CO Colonial Office

) Defence of the Realm Acts (Regulations)
DORA (R
Freeman’s Journal
FJ

GOC General Officer Commanding

(1) General Staff Officer (1st Grade)
GSO

) House of Commons (Papers)
HC (P

HL House of Lords

HO Home Office

ICA Irish Citizen Army

IG Inspector General

Irish Independent
II

) Irish Republican Army (Brotherhood)
IRA (B

The Irish Times
IT

IWM Imperial War Museum, London

LHC Liddell Hart Centre, King’s College, London

MAD Military Archives, Dublin

MCR Monthly Confidential Report

MO Medical Officer

Member of Parliament
Member of Parliament
MP

) Manuscript(s)
MS (S

NAD National Archives, Dublin

NAL National Archives, London

NLI National Library of Ireland, Dublin

OC Officer Commanding

OMN O’Malley Notebooks,
UCDA

OS Ordnance Survey

The Parliamentary Debates: Official Report
PD

RDC Rural District Council

RIC Royal Irish Constabulary

RTÉ Radio Telefís Éireann

RUC Royal Ulster Constabulary

TC Town Commissioner

TCD Trinity College, Dublin

TD Teachta Dáil

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