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Upcoming Events
MONTHLY DIVISION BUSINESS MEETING
NEXT TUE 3/14 7p-ST. MIKE'S
Please bring dues or sold ticket stubs & money. Our full slate of March events to be discussed.
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MARCH CALENDAR
Sat 11th 6p-9p LAOH Mary Ryan Irish Gala, St. Michael’s
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Tue 14th 7p-9p Monthly Division Business Meeting @ St. Michael’s
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Fri 17th 9am Mass at St. Patrick’s Church with J.P. Carroll Breakfast to follow in basement (donated meat-free breakfast items welcome)
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continue to Rosie Connolly’s (opens at 11am)…and onto Rare
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Olde Times or wherever the wind takes us
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Fri 24th afternoon Help needed to set up booth for Irish Festival
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Sat 25th 10a-6p Church Hill Irish Festival please be there at 9:30a for the 10a parade…sign ups to follow for raffle sales & recruiting
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Sun 26th 10a-6p Church Hill Irish Festival…sign ups to follow for raffle sales & recruiting
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100 Years Ago This Week In The Irish Civil War
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5 March Mounting concerns raised at prospect of tariff barrier between north
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7 March At Ballyseedy, outside Tralee, Co Kerry, eight anti-Treaty prisoners are blown up. Nine prisoners, after being selected by Colonel David Neligan and Captain Ned Breslin, had been taken from Ballymullen barracks in Tralee to Ballyseedy Cross in order to, according to the pro-Treaty side, clear a mine. However, the prisoners were tied to a mine made by pro-Treaty men and the mine was detonated. One prisoner (Stephen Fuller) escaped by being thrown over a hundred yards by the blast. Body parts of those killed were scattered over several hundred yards.
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The eight prisoners killed were as follows: John Daly (Castleisland), George [O,]Shea (Lixnaw), Timothy Twomey (Lixnaw), Patrick Harnett (Listowel), James [O’]Connell, John O’Connor (Liverpool), Patrick Buckley (Scartaglin) and James Walsh (Lisdoigue).
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Ó Ruairc notes that Patrick Buckley had been an RIC man. However, he helped the IRA capture Newmarket-on-Fergus or Sixmilebridge RIC barracks (see June 13th 1920 and August 6th 1920) and subsequently left the RIC. He had gone back to his native Castleisland, Co. Kerry and joined the IRA. After the Treaty, he took the anti-Treaty side.
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12 March Five anti-Treaty prisoners (Daniel [O’]Shea, Mike Courtney, John Sugrue, Willie Riordain and Eugene Dwyer) who were being held in Behaghs Workhouse (near Cahirciveen, Co. Kerry) are taken out supposedly to clear mines but the mine explodes and they are all killed. A report from the O/C of the anti-Treaty Kerry No. 3 Brigade states that they laid no mines in the area and none of their troops were in the area. A military inquiry is set up by the pro-Treaty army under Paddy O’Daly, O/C Kerry Command, Col J McGuinness (Deputy O/C) and Michael Price but they deny that the killings were reprisals.
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However, pro-Treaty Lieutenant McCarthy, who was in charge of the Behaghs Workhouse, goes public and calls the perpetrators of the killings as a ‘murder gang’.
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To ensure that no one escaped this time (unlike Ballyseedy and Countess Bridge – See March 7th), the prisoners were shot in the legs before being placed on the mine. Three of the bodies were unrecognizable after the explosion.
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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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