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Béal na Bláth or Béal na Blá (anglicised Bealnablath or Bealnabla) is a small village on the R585 road in County Cork, Ireland. The area is best known as the site of the ambush and death of the Irish revolutionary leader Michael Collins in 1922.
Aug 21, 2022 · BÉAL NA BLÁTH sits in a tight, shallow valley in rural west Cork, banked by broad deciduous trees and rolling slopes. The modern day village comprises of a service station and a pub on a...
He is pictured outside White’s Hotel (now Munster Arms) on 22 August 1922. On the road to Bandon, at the village of Béal na mBláth (Irish, “the Mouth of Flowers”), Collins’ column stopped to ask directions. However the man whom they asked, Dinny Long, was also a member of the local Anti-Treaty IRA.
- Investigating Béal Na Blá
- The Wider Conflict Landscape
- Into The Hornet's Nest
- The Ambush Zone - The Upper Lane
- The Ambush Zone - The Main Road
It was in this context that, in advance of the centenary of Michael Collins’s death, Cork County Council tasked the authors with using the methodology developed by the Landscapes of Revolution Project to investigate Béal na Blá. Together with analysis conducted by Professor Finola O’Kane Crimmins of UCD School of Architecture, this investigation wa...
The reason why the Béal na Blá ambush occurred where it did is rooted in the significance of this locality during the entire revolutionary period. It is a story that is still visible in the landscape today, written in stone in the form of the numerous historic buildings that dot the area. The 1922 conflict landscape extends well beyond the immediat...
The anti-Treaty IRA in Long’s Pub were preparing for a high-level meeting at the Murray Safehouse scheduled for later that day. It was at the crossroads that Collins was first identified, and in these buildings that plans for the ambush were formulated. Despite significant later development—Béal na Blá crossroads is now dominated by a service stati...
The most significant surviving landscape feature within the ambush zone itself is the primary anti-Treaty IRA position, which we designated ‘the Upper Lane’. This small boreen runs parallel to the main road, situated on high ground off to the west. It was the primary position of the small number of IRA men on the evening of 22 August. They were pro...
Perhaps unsurprisingly, the part of the Béal na Blá conflict landscape that has undergone the most change since 1922 is in the vicinity of the Collins memorial. While photographic analysis confirms that the embankment behind the stone cross looks much as it did one hundred years ago, the road itself has been significantly altered. These changes wer...
Aug 25, 2022 · The cap that Michael Collins was wearing at the time of his death at Béal na Bláth on 22nd August, 1922 is the subject of substantial discussion in the upcoming docu-drama Cold Case Collins,...
Aug 20, 2022 · Michael Collins was killed in Béal na Bláth during the Irish Civil war 100 years ago, his relatives and historians recount his final movements. The famous silhouette of Collins striding ...
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Aug 22, 2018 · On a country road in West Cork, on August 22 1922, a convoy of green uniformed National Army troops encountered barricade on a curve in the road near the townland of Beal na Blath. Shots rang out from the overlooking hillside. Fire had been opened on them by anti-Treaty IRA guerrillas.
