Custom House Burning - Part 1 / John Wilson

[seanod]

Thanks for that, I will have to make a note of those collections and take a look. There may be information of value there. I hope I get the book finished in time for the 90th anniversary but we'll just have to see. I'm always busy. 

[gormangenealogy]

someone may find this interesting

[gormangenealogy]

Booklet detailing the dead 'Fianna Heroes of 1916'

http://ivrlaprod.ucd.ie/fedora/get/ivrla10-:30626/ivrla10-:objLayoutbDef/getLayout/

[Gary Deering]

Hi Gorman who signed that on the end?

[gormangenealogy]

Hello Gary,

See it  here

http://ivrlaprod.ucd.ie/fedora/get/ivrla10-:30881/ivrla10-:objLayoutbDef/getLayout/

[Gary Deering]

Sorry I should have seen the link,I read John Pinkmans in the legion of the Vanguard a few weeks ago, I never knew how much trucers where hated ! I got my own Granfathers Army records a few weeks ago & managed to prove he was he was in the IRA & I was also glad he was pre truce !

[seanod]

Hi, that's an interesting document but it's amazing how general it is. If the word irregular wasn't in there with negative connotations you wouldn't know which side the person was on from the content!

[Ms. Smokestoomuch]

Interesting.

When you look at it that way, it does seem the words of a State to the population at large rather than one mans opinion about the irregulars.
Don't want to sound like I'm underestimating bitterness.  But I wonder was it to try tackle what support the irregulars may have got rather than an attempt to try get irregulars to see sense.

[seanod]

I don't know much about the Civil War period, but there were also neutrals who were disgusted at the spectacle of the former comrades butchering one another.