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100 Years Ago This Week In The Irish Civil War

25 July great part of Mayo succumbed to Free State troops advancing from Claremorris to Castlebar…Ballyhaunis & Balla also taken

26 July Golden, County Tipperary taken by Free State troops

27 July Anti-Treaty/IRA led by Padraig O Cuinn, dynamite Dundalk Gaol

prison wall to release Republican prisoners...the "Hole in the Wall"

escape

Commander of IRA’s Dublin Brigade arrested in Dublin

Anti-Treaty/IRA lose Ballaghaderreen in Roscommon

29 July 400 Republican troops fail in attempt to take back Golden

Free Staters take Ballina in Mayo

30 July Free State’s Dublin Guard take Bruree, County Limerick…60% of Limerick’s deaths in the Civil War happened in these last 3 weeks of July

Free State troops at 1am raid the Dowling’s Pub (now the Black Cat) in Kilkenny killing a 17(or 21)-year old escaping out the back

late July After failed Republican ambush in Limerick, Michael Collins promotes ambush thwarter Lt. Michael Joe Costello to Colonel-Commandant at just 18 years old

GEOGRAPHY TIP

“Bally” prefix from the Irish “baile na” = place of

In Friendship, Unity, and Christian Charity,

Tim McDonnell

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