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100 Years Ago This Week In The Irish Civil War
28 August Michael Collins’ funeral in Dublin…reportedly attended by one fifth of Ireland
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5 civilians killed by Anti-Treaty troops firing on a crowd coming out of a Mass praying for the repose of the soul of Michael Collins in Westport (Mayo)
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30 August IRA attack Bantry (Cork)…casualties on both sides
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2 September Free State troops wounded in an attack on RIC barracks in
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Rathfarnham (County Dublin)
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4 September Anti-Treaty IRA unit led by Liam Pilkington took Dromahair Barracks
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in Leitrim….a little more 2 years later Pilkington started his vocation as
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a Catholic priest, doing missionary work for much of the remaining 50 years of his life
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Pro-Treaty/Free State/National Army/Regulars
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Anti-Treaty/IRA/Republican/Irregulars/Volunteers
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In Friendship, Unity, and Christian Charity,
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