If the Kilmichael ambush, in which Tom Barry's flying column attacked a column of RIC Auxiliaries and killed 17 of them, had been the IRA’s most significant victory during the War of Independence, ...

The Battle of Clonmult, near Midleton, Co. Cork, will always be remembered as the biggest single loss of lives the IRA suffered in any engagement with British Crown Forces during the entirety of the ...

President Michael D Higgins and Taoiseach Micheál Martin have attended an official ceremony at Clonmult in east Cork to mark the 101st anniversary of the Clonmult ambush. This is where the IRA ...

Local historian and author of ‘The Battle of Clonmult’, Tom O’Neill said the Flying Column was mainly made up of men from the Midleton, Cobh and Knockraha Companies of the 4th Battalion who had ...

There is a photograph from the collection of Cork photographer John Hallahan which is one of the most familiar of the War of Independence. It shows men from the Clonmult volunteer active service unit ...