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100 Years Ago This Week In The Irish Civil War

5 September Republican fighters attack Free Staters at the Carrickmacross Barracks in County Monaghan (near border), and also County Limerick & Waterford City

8 September Anti-Treaty fighters attack Free State troops protecting Limerick Junction railway line in County Tipperary

Anti-Treaty activist Timothy Kenefik abducted, tortured & killed by the Free State army while on his way to his mother’s funeral

9 September Republicans retake Kenmare in Kerry, capturing 120 Free State troops along with a significant amount of munitions…this allows IRA to use this part of Kerry as a base for the remainder of the war

11 September Free State column traveling towards Kerry from Macroom (Cork)is attacked with a mine on a bridge at Carrigphooka in West Cork.

9 Free Staters killed in the blast.

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In Friendship, Unity, and Christian Charity,

Tim McDonnell

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