A place to discuss the men and women who took on the British Empire, and in spite of the incredible odds against them ... won. Photo to the left is the monument at the site of the Carrowkennedy Ambush in Co. Mayo.
On the night of July 17, 1920, members of the Irish Volunteers entered the Cork & County Club Hotel, an Anglo-Irish social club in Cork City intent on putting an end to RIC officer who had been infamous over the preceding month. Lieutenant-Colonel Gerald Bryce Ferguson Smyth, Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) Divisional Commissioner for Munster Province had given a speech to a group of constables in Listowel, Co. Kerry that ended with many of them turning in their guns and badges after he essentially told them they could murder their fellow Irishmen with impunity. Several constable resigned in what has come to be known as the Listowel Mutiny. Read the rest of the story here: The Listowel Mutiny: “Shoot on Sight”
Irish War of Independence (Cogadh na Saoirse) / Black & Tan War
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A place to discuss the men and women who took on the British Empire, and in spite of the incredible odds against them ... won. Photo to the left is the monument at the site of the Carrowkennedy Ambush in Co. Mayo.
The Listowel Mutiny: “Shoot on Sight”
by The Wild Geese
Jul 18, 2022
On the night of July 17, 1920, members of the Irish Volunteers entered the Cork & County Club Hotel, an Anglo-Irish social club in Cork City intent on putting an end to RIC officer who had been infamous over the preceding month. Lieutenant-Colonel Gerald Bryce Ferguson Smyth, Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) Divisional Commissioner for Munster Province had given a speech to a group of constables in Listowel, Co. Kerry that ended with many of them turning in their guns and badges after he essentially told them they could murder their fellow Irishmen with impunity. Several constable resigned in what has come to be known as the Listowel Mutiny. Read the rest of the story here: The Listowel Mutiny: “Shoot on Sight”