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Kilmichael : The Life and Afterlife of an Ambush

28 November 2020 marked the 100th anniversary of the Kilmichael ambush. This is an incisive new account of the most controversial military engagements in the Irish War of Independence, featuring previously unpublished interviews with Kilmichael veterans.
ISBN: 9781788551458
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Author Morrison, Eve
Pub Date 26/04/2022
Binding Paperback
Availability Available
Pages 300
Country IRL
Dewey 941.50821
€19.95
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This book is the first comprehensive account of both the ambush and the intense debates that followed. It explores the events, memory and historiography of the ambush, from 1920 to the present day, within a wider framework of interwar European events, global memory wars and current scholarship relating to Irish, British, oral and military history. Kilmichael: The Life and Afterlife of an Ambush features extensive archival research, including the late Peter Hart s papers, as well as many other new sources from British and Irish archives, and previously unavailable oral history interviews with Kilmichael veterans. There has always been more than one version of Kilmichael. Tom Barry s account certainly became the dominant one after the publication of Guerilla Days in Ireland in 1949, but it was always shadowed and contested by others, and in this book, Eve Morrison meticulously reconstructs both British and Irish perspectives on this momentous and much-debated attack.

This book is the first comprehensive account of both the ambush and the intense debates that followed. It explores the events, memory and historiography of the ambush, from 1920 to the present day, within a wider framework of interwar European events, global memory wars and current scholarship relating to Irish, British, oral and military history. Kilmichael: The Life and Afterlife of an Ambush features extensive archival research, including the late Peter Hart s papers, as well as many other new sources from British and Irish archives, and previously unavailable oral history interviews with Kilmichael veterans. There has always been more than one version of Kilmichael. Tom Barry s account certainly became the dominant one after the publication of Guerilla Days in Ireland in 1949, but it was always shadowed and contested by others, and in this book, Eve Morrison meticulously reconstructs both British and Irish perspectives on this momentous and much-debated attack.

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