#OTD in Irish History | 26 December:

26/12/2022.Reading time 6 minutes.

In the Liturgical Calendar, today is the Feast of St. Stephen as well as Wren day in Ireland and the Isle of Man. In Ireland the day is one of nine official public holidays. 1381 – The sudden death of Edmund Mortimer at Cork leaves the colony without effective leadership and prompts a military crisis. […]

#OTD in 1897 – Birth of Tom Barry, in Co Kerry, one of the most prominent guerrilla leaders in the Irish Republican Army during the Irish War of Independence.

01/07/2022.Reading time 7 minutes.

As Commander of the 3rd West Cork Flying Column, Tom Barry was one of the great architects of modern guerrilla warfare in Ireland’s fight for freedom. He has been controversial, not because he sought controversy, but mainly due to his decisiveness and his military acumen during the Irish War of Independence. The son of an […]

#OTD in Irish History | 26 December:

26/12/2021.Reading time 6 minutes.

#OTD in 1897 – Birth of Tom Barry, in Co Kerry, one of the most prominent guerrilla leaders in the Irish Republican Army during the Irish War of Independence.

01/07/2021.Reading time 7 minutes.

#OTD in Irish History | 26 December:

26/12/2020.Reading time 6 minutes.

#OTD in 1897 – Birth of Tom Barry, in Co Kerry, one of the most prominent guerrilla leaders in the Irish Republican Army during the Irish War of Independence.

01/07/2020.Reading time 7 minutes.

#OTD in Irish History – 26 December:

26/12/2019.Reading time 6 minutes.

#OTD in 1922 – Republican leader Tom Barry, who was captured in the Dublin fighting, escapes from an internment camp in Gormanston.

28/09/2019.Reading time 2 minutes.

During the negotiations that preceded the Truce that ended the War of Independence, the British had demanded that Tom Barry be handed over to them before progress could be made on other matters. Michael Collins refused. Barry opposed the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 6 December 1921, because, according to him, it betrayed the Irish Republic and […]

#OTD in 1897 – Birth of Tom Barry, in Co Kerry, one of the most prominent guerrilla leaders in the Irish Republican Army during the Irish War of Independence.

01/07/2019.Reading time 7 minutes.

#OTD in Irish History – 26 December:

26/12/2018.Reading time 6 minutes.

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