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Mar 6, 2023 · In this episode of In The News historian, Owen O’Shea, details the shocking story of the Ballyseedy massacre, while Irish Times journalist and author, Ronan McGreevy, asks why the state won’t...
- Stories of the revolution: Ballyseedy and the Civil War’s ...
The son of the sole survivor of the Civil War’s worst...
- Stories of the revolution: Ballyseedy and the Civil War’s ...
Mar 7, 2023 · Today (7th March) marks the 100th anniversary of the Ballyseedy Massacre - an outrage perpetrated by Free State counter-revolutionaries against those fighting in defence of the Republic. The massacre was one of the most brutal acts to take place during the Irish counter-revolutionary war of 1922-1923, an event that is routinely and less ...
Nov 15, 2022 · Tue Nov 15 2022 - 18:05. In an extract from his new book on the Civil War in Kerry, historian Owen O’Shea recounts the most brutal incident of the conflict in the county in which eight IRA...
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Mar 4, 2023 · But it is the story of how he became a lone survivor in one of Ireland’s darkest days, in the massacre at Ballyseedy, that has kept his memory alive to historians and locals.
Mar 7, 2023 · The horror that transpired next among the tenebrous trees of Ballyseedy Wood encapsulated the crescendo of depravity that marked the last stage of Ireland’s Civil War in Kerry. Fuller later ...
Dec 11, 2015 · The son of the sole survivor of the Civil War’s worst atrocity, the blowing up of eight anti-Treaty prisoners by Free State troops in Ballyseedy, Co Kerry in 1923, has said his father held no...
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Mar 7, 2023 · The killing of eight anti-Treaty IRA prisoners at Ballyseedy Cross near Tralee, Co Kerry, 100 years ago this week remains synonymous with the depths of depravity and viciousness to which the...
