1920 AD - 5 / November

                                                                                                                                                 "Massacre at  Croke Park"  

1920.November 1st: Kevin Barry the 18 year old Irish Volunteer arrested in Dublin for trying to disarm the British Imperia Military Force was to be the first of 24 Irishmen "executed officially" by the British Government and Michael Collin's efforts to save him had to be abandoned when it was found the prison wall was too well constructed for an "explosion" to create a section through which he could escape and Sir Henry Wilson the British Imperial Military Army Chief told the British Cabinet that he would "resign" his post if Kevin Barry was not "executed," and there was then "massive protests" carried out to save him, as he was considered a "Prisoner of War," but all attempts to obtain clemency fell on death ears. Later on Sir Henry Wilson himself would be "assassinated" under previous original orders given by Michael Collins.

      J.H. Gooding who had acted as a British Imperial Government "spy" for Lord French in an endeavour to capture Michael Collins was also fronted with all the evidence by Arthur Griffith the Acting - President of the 1st Dail Eireann who advised him also to leave Ireland for his own personal safety. 

    The Dail Eireann Courts in Ireland were to be constantly "raided" by the British Imperial Government Forces, but despite this inconvenience they were still to be able to continue on with their hearings right up to the "Anglo - Irish Truce."

November: The American Committee on Conditions in Ireland reported back to the Friends of Irish Freedom, while the American Commission for Relief in Ireland also raised an additional $ 5,000,000 dollars.

November 5th: The British Imperial Government's Dublin Castle's "Black & Tans" and "Auxiliary" forces in Ireland raided the town of Granard in Co. Longford in the north - west of the Northern Leinster were they set fire to the "homes" there, and therefore came up against the Irish Volunteers / I.R.A. led by Sean Mac Keon the commander of the Longford Irish Volunteer Brigade who with 20 of his men was able to successfully drive them off, but any reports about the raid they carried out there and the actual result were "suppressed" by the British Imperial Government's authorities in the Dublin Castle (The Devil's 1/2 acre.)

November 13th: 700 British Imperial Forces with no arms physically attacked the "political" Sinn Fein Party headquarters in Dublin were they where resisted by 30 armed Irish Volunteers / I.R.A. who had received advance notice that they were coming and they were able to drive them off, and mention of this attack also and it's successful result was "prohibited" from being reported by the British Imperial Government's stronghold in Dublin Castle.  

November 14th: Liam Tobin the I.R.A. / Irish Volunteer's "Deputy Director of Intelligence" and his assistant, Tom Cullen had a close call when they were taken at the Vaughan Hotel by British Imperial Government Forces who interrogated them for two hours until they finally decided to let them go and this encounter enabled them to recognize a further 2 members of the "Cairo Gang," in Bennet and Ames, among their interrogators and later on the British Imperial Government "Auxiliaries" were to carry out another "raid" there, but it was not to be until everyone of any importance connected to the Irish Republicans / I.R.A. had left, and they were to only then "arrest" the unfortunate Conor Clune who would only be visiting Dublin from Co. Clare. Although he was not involved at all in any way with the I.R.A. he was to be still "imprisoned" in Dublin Castle were he was to be "murdered" in the future along with Richard Mac Kee and Peadar Clancy who were both I.R.A. members who were to be captured at other venues and also put in the Dublin Castle prison withy him.

November 16th: Eamonn de Valera, the Priomh Aire of the 1st Dail Eireann who was still in America, held a meeting at the Raleigh Hotel in Washington, to promote his new Irish - American organization to be known as the American Association for the Recognition of the Irish Republic, to counteract some of the enmity flowing from the executive of the Friends for Irish Freedom and to try and do away with any further division to the cause, and to this end he also carried out a personal grand tour there to promote it's ideals.

      Angliss / Mac Mahon, the British Imperial Government "spy," who they had recalled from Russia to carry out their undercover operations in Ireland, and who had been involved in the "murder" of John Lynch at the Exchange Hotel in Dublin, run off at the mouth and "named" all of the other British Imperial Government "agents" who were all using "false names" of which many of these had already carried out "murders" on the Irish population, and among their group were the 16 "Special Secret " Service Agents who had been bought in from "Cairo" and "Russia." Their mission had been to penetrate "secretly" into the Irish community and to this end they had then all arrived separately in plain clothes, and on different dates, as it was their combined intention to also take out Michael Collins along with the Irish Organization in Dublin, and "Angliss" had also blurted out the "details" of their deadly intentions.

November 17th: The British Imperial Government Forces had shown "no mercy" in the City of Cork, in the City of Limerick and in Co. Tipperary all in the Munster Province, and they were now even further determined, by any means necessary, to "destroy" the I.R.A. Volunteer organization in the Dublin area and Lieutenant "G" who was Michael Collins' agent in the British Military Intelligence had informed him that he only had 4 days to "clear out" the "Cairo Gang" until the 21st of this month or else, and a list of 35 suspected members of the "Cairo Gang" had been drawn up together with their photographs. It was given over to Cathal Brugha to peruse and he then removed the names of 15 of the men from the list, and Michael Collins then handed the task over to Richard Mac Kee while supplying him with all of the addresses of those who were left on the list containing the main "agents" in the British Imperial Government's "Cairo Gang," and that it must be carried out on the 21st. Richard Mac Kee then informed Peadar Clancy and the "12 Apostles" from the Irish Volunteers who had already carried out surveillance on were they were all living, and in the meantime, the British Imperial Government's "Murder Gang" had "shot" dead Father O Callaghan in Co. Cork, and a school teacher in Galway in Co. Galway in Southern Connacht, shooting him in the head, and Father Griffin the same way and also Michael Walsh a publican from Galway. Sir Hamar Greenwood true to British form once again told the British House of Commons that it was the Irish Volunteers / I.R.A. carrying out these "murders" on their own Irish people. By now the British Imperial Government's Dublin Castle's R.I.C. / "Black & Tans" in Cork City had formed the " Anti - Sinn Fein Party" where they intended to carry out David Lloyd - George's and Sir Hamar Greenwood's instructions to "kill" any 2 members of the Irish Volunteers / I.R.A. there, for any 1 of their members "killed, " or any 3 "persons" from the Irish population for good measure.    

November 19th: James Coleman was shot "dead" in his own home while opening his door, and Stephen Coleman who was no relation was also "shot" in his bed in front of his wife, and for good measure they also "killed" young  Hanley who lived next door.

    I.R.A. Volunteers 3rd Battalion Dublin Brigade, members who served under Patrick Flanagan, were now also "arrested," and placed in the Beggars Bush Barracks were they were interrogated and by the minute the pressure became greater to do something to stop the "murders" as many new arrests were being made of anyone at all in Ireland who was purported to be an Irish Volunteer.

November 20th: Michael Collins met with Richard Mac Kee and Peadar Clancy who were in charge of the Irish Volunteer's "12 Apostles" at the Vaughan Hotel were it was decided that it was now more then ever imperative that they to go ahead with their plans to remove the British Imperial Government's "Secret Agents," the "Cairo Gang," from the scene in Ireland. as it was now a matter of "life or death" for all concerned, before they eventually destroyed any further chance that the Irish population had of obtaining any Self - Determination for Ireland.

      Conor Clune the previously mentioned innocent bystander, who had been only a visitor to Dublin from Co. Clare in the north - west of the Munster Province, who had previously arrived in Dublin, with the son of his employer, Dr. Edward Lysaght the Irish genealogist, had wanted to meet Piaras Beaslaoi / Beasley who was the editor of the Republican paper, An tOglach, who was also involved in the Gaelic League the same as he was and Sean O Connell had taken him to the Vaughan Hotel to meet him, but a warning was given that the British Imperial Government 's Dublin Castle's "Auxiliaries" and the "Black & Tans" had surrounded the hotel and Piaras Beaslaoi, who was on their wanted list, took off to hide out, while Conor Clune just stayed put, as he knew that he was not involved in anyway with the I.R.A., but they had still "arrested" him and imprisoned him in Dublin Castle.      

November 21st: 2.a.m Richard Mac Kee and Peadar Clancy, the I.R.A. Volunteer leaders of the "!2 Apostles" were staying at Fitz Patrick's in Gloucester Street, where it was believed a Dublin Castle R.I.C. police Sergeant living nearby tipped off the British Imperial Government authorities in the Dublin Castle that they were there and this particular Dublin Castle R.I.C. Sergeant was already on another list of British Imperial Government "informers" and the members of the I.R.A. Volunteers had previously wanted him removed from the scene also, but their request was "denied" as there had not been enough evidence against him. Richard Mac Kee was able to destroy the list with the names and addresses of the "Cairo Gang" he had on him before he was "captured" along with Peadar Clancy and Fitz Patrick who were all taken off to be imprisoned in the Dublin Castle where they were put in with the "innocent" new arrival Conor Clune from Co. Clare.

      Both Houses of the British Parliament in England on this same day "officially" passed the 4th Irish Home Rule Bill under British Law to "artificially partition" Ireland into 2 separate parliaments, creating a division also of 6 of the 9 Counties in the Ulster Province on purely "ethnic and sectarian" grounds to suite the continuation of the Ascendancy in Ireland as it would have been too hard to "gerrymander" the whole 9 Counties of Ulster Province. Co. Cavan, Co. Donegal and Co. Monaghan in the Ulster Province were left out, as had been agreed solely to by Edward Carson the "Official" Unionist leader and David Lloyd - George the British Imperial Government Prime Minister. Anyone with any sense at all, who really cared, could see that in the future this would bring about the "deaths of many thousands" of human beings there in the 6 Counties "artificially partitioned" from the 9 Counties in the Ulster Province, with untold "misery and eternal conflict," for no real purpose in the end, other then the accommodation and expediency on the part of the British Ïmperial Government to opt out of any real "responsibility" for the lives of the people in Ireland. Any true Statesmen could see that regardless of the continuation of all of the dreadful turmoil ahead, Ireland would one day be "re -  united" anyway. (But of course this would not in any real way personally impede the "immediate" needs of the British Imperial Government who were by now finally abandoning the ship by laying the grounds for all of the future "turmoil" in Ireland.) It had nearly been 800 years of "untold repression" already carried out by the subsequent English and British Government's in Ireland and the Irish people still had not given up the ghost, did they really care or think that this would see the end of it all for them.   

       Father Michael Griffin, a Catholic priest, had previously been "kidnapped and shot" through the head and his body had then been thrown into a bog, as there was now no need to "officially" have any reason whatsoever to "kill" any Irishman and the British Parliament at Westminster had passed legislation to ensure that the British Imperial Government Military Forces now had no need to "justify" any of their sickening actions and Arthur Griffith the Acting President of the Irish Dail Eireann / Irish Assembly was by now feeling the emotional and physical pressure and strain of it all that was now being applied with a vengeance by the British Imperial Government and he asked Michael Collins to take over as the Acting - President of the Dail Eireann if he personally should also be "arrested or assassinated" by the British Imperial Government forces. 

     The British Imperial Government in England once again pushed the Irish people to the point of no return, and it was now time for real action, not words, and at 8.45 a.m. the I.R.A. Volunteers from the Dublin Brigade, composed of picked men from each group, separated into 8 parties and were sent out to carry out their assignments in the 8 separate areas in the City of Dublin, while other I.R.A. Volunteer members from the outer areas of Dublin, were to act as their individual back ups. 12 British Government "Secret Agents" were to be "killed" and another 5 were to be wounded, together with a civilian on this particular morning, which became known as "Bloody Sunday." The Irish Volunteer forces at first raided 28 Pembroke Street where they killed Captain Price who was a British ex - Middlesex Regiment officer and Captain Dowling from the Grenadier Guards, and Colonel Montgomery of the Lancashire Fusiliers was shot, while Captain Keenlyside and Lieutenant Murray were wounded. At 119 Morehampton Road, Lieutenant Mac Lean the British Chief Intelligence Officer and his friend Smith were killed and his brother - in - law, Caldow from Scotland was wounded. At 119 Lower Baggot Street, Captain Bagally the British Government's Court Martial officer who had also been involved in the "murder" of the innocent John Lynch from Kilmallock at the Exchange Hotel was another killed. At 92 Lower Baggot Street, Captain Newbury from the Royal West Surrey Regiment was killed, and at 38 Upper Mount Street, Lieutenant Ames ex Grenadier Guards and Lieutenant Bennet ex Royal Artillery were others killed. At 38 Earlsfort Terrace, Captain Fitz Gerald was killed, while at the Gresham Hotel, Captain Mac Cormack from the Royal Army and A.L. Wilde were killed. At 22 Lower Mount Street Lieutenant Angliss / Mac Mahon was killed, but Lieutenant Peel who was also there with him was able to escape. At one of the addresses the Dublin Castle's "Black & Tan Auxiliaries" were to appear outside the building and the I.R.A. Volunteer Dublin Brigade members split up into two parties, with one under Tom Keogh going out the front way firing as they went and were able to get away. Garnin and Morris two of the "Black & Tan Auxiliaries" were sent by their officer to get them further help from their barracks. but were captured by the back up crew near Mount Street Bridge and were the first of the "Auxiliaries" to be killed so that they could not identify their captures. The other I.R.A. Volunteer Dublin Brigade party went out the back way were Frank Teeling was wounded and left behind, and General Crozier arrived just in time to save him from certain death as an "Auxiliary" was pushing a gun against his temple and he then had him taken away to the hospital.

      4 British Imperial Government Army officers had "escaped" the Irish Volunteer net, including Colonel Jennings who was not where he was supposed to be at the Eastwood Hotel and the others who were supposed to be at the Standard Hotel were also missing and while looking for Major Callaghan at Fitz William Square they had run across Captain Crawford and advised him to leave the Country or else, and Captain Mac Cormack who had not been on the list was killed by mistake. Peel and others at the Shelbourne Hotel had been very fortunate and were able to escape onto the roof when alarmed by a frightened I.R.A. Volunteer member shooting out a mirror in the dark during the intense anxiety of it all. Lieutenant James Kenny who was an I.R.A. Volunteer in the 4th Dublin Battalion together with Frank Burke who was a schoolteacher were 2 of the "12 Apostles" and their mission was to also handle Mr. Cleveden, but he too had not been were he was supposed to have been. Arthur Griffith the Acting - President of the 1st Dail Eireann was in a state of "terrible shock," but Michael Collins told him that there was just "no other way" that they could ensure the future safety of any the Irish who were now involved in trying to bring about Irish Self - Determination from the British Imperial Government.        

      The I.R.A. Volunteer Dublin Brigade officers had advised the Gaelic Athletic League members to cancel their football match set down for "Croke Park" in Dublin on this day, but they had decided to go ahead anyway, as they did not want their association identified with any I.R.A. Volunteer activities and during the afternoon at 2.45 p.m. a British Imperial Government plane flew over the playing field and sent out a red signal flare and the British Imperial Government Army "Auxiliaries" then turned up there en - masse in trucks at the football match and the "Black & Tans" formed a line with their rifles erect and at the ready, as a British Military officer on top of the wall began to "open fire" on the gathered crowd below with his revolver, and the British Military Forces then followed suite with their rifles also blazing away, and as there were 7,000 people in attendance at the match they soon "killed" 14 of the fans outright, including one of the Co. Tipperary players, and also "wounded" 62 other spectators there, as they just blatantly fired on the people who were present at the match. The British Imperial Government Forces then began using "sub - machine guns" on the crowd, without any conscience at all, as now under the British Government's previous Act they were encouraged to "kill" any of the Irish population without suffering any recourse, and many Irish men, women and children fell to the ground. One of the players, Michael Hogan from Grangemockler in Co. Tipperary never moved at all, so Thomas Ryan from Co. Wexford ran over and began saying the "Act of Contrition" to him and he too was then "shot dead" as he knelt there beside him, and the rest of the Co. Tipperary players were then herded together by the "Black & Tans," who had full intentions of "shooting" them all, while other British Government Forces went throughout the whole crowd, who were by now a mass of thoroughly distraught human beings. Jack Shouldice was also among those who were detained due to the diary he was carrying, but was eventually released. (Among those who lay dead on the field was Jerry O Leary  a young 10 year old boy,           

      Mac Namara, who was a member of the Metropolitan Detective Branch, who also worked in with Michael Collins, was by now also worried by the rantings of the British Imperial Government "Auxiliaries," so he informed him of their behaviour and Michael Collins was preparing to get the I.R.A. Dublin Brigade to attack their Braidwell barracks to try and release Richard Mac Kee and Peadar Clancy, but found out they were actually being held in the Dublin Castle, which was impregnable.

November 22 - Sunday:  Richard Mac Kee, died at 11 a.m. who was Michael Collin's right hand man, and that of Peadar Clancy was a great loss to the cause in Ireland as they together with the innocent Connor Clune were to be "murdered" after the British Imperial Government's Forces under Sir Ormonde Winter and their agents, Hardy and King, had previously carried out "torture" on them, and then removed the rest of the Irish prisoners to other barracks, leaving only the 3 of them in the Dublin Castle, on their own, before allowing the "Auxiliaries" to "murder" them there in cold blood by bayoneting and shooting. Later on endeavouring to cover up the "murder" of these 3 prisoners at once, Sir Ormonde Winter alleged that they had tried to "escape" and depicted the innocent Conor Clune as an I.R.A. officer from Co. Clare. In a further attempt to justify the cold blooded "murders" on this occasion they also released a "fake" film supposed to be of their attempted escape and to counteract the British Imperial Government's propaganda the I.R.A. Volunteer newspaper, An tOglach / The Republic, now began to publish reports on a weekly basis, were it had previously only came out fortnightly. Dr. Edward Lysaght who had previously been expecting to meet up with Conor Clune so that they could return home to Co. Clare, were he worked for his father in his Nursery business, was shocked to hear that the British Imperial Government Forces had killed him. He arranged to pick up his body to take him home to his father, and took it to the Catholic Pro - Cathedral were Michael Collins and his staff acted as pall bearers and an Evening Herald photographer took a clear picture of Michael Collins. Next morning on seeing Michael Collins photo in the Dublin newspaper the I.R.A. Volunteers did the rounds and gathered up all the copies and went to the paper and destroyed the picture plates. Dr. Edward Lysaght perturbed by the death of the totally innocent Conor Clune went to see Michael Collins to discuss what he himself could do about the matter to bring about some recourse against the British Imperial Government forces who were by now just "killing" anyone in Ireland without any justification at all. Dr. Edward Lysaght then went onto London were he saw Lord Simon and Oswald Morley the M.P. and made an arrangement to meet with Herbert Asquith and when he returned to Ireland he too was also "arrested" and put in the Dublin Castle (The Devil's 1/2 acre) for his trouble in the same room as the one in which they had "murdered" Conor Clune.        

      The British Imperial Government's "Special Agents" who had died received much publicity in England where they stated that they were "unarmed" British Military Army officers killed in their beds while the massacre of the Irish spectators and the player at Croke Park barely rated a mention and Sir Hamar Greenwood the British appointed Under - Secretary of State in Ireland who was basically responsible for all the "mayhem" in Ireland gave his rendition of the facts to the British House of Commons that included a manufactured account that the I.R.A. Volunteers had used a "sledgehammer" to bash in the heads of these unfortunate innocent army officers at the Gresham Hotel. Joseph Devlin representing the Irish Parliamentary Party who were still in the Westminster Parliament tried to ask the question, "What were the police doing at the football match at Croke Park. ?" He was howled down and ignored, but he persisted with his question until Major Molson jumped on him in the chamber and tried to force him down to the ground, while the other British Parliamentary members cried out, " Kill him, kill him."  Hugh Martin a British journalist from the "Daily News" tried to report the truth on the "massacre" in Croke Park so the Dublin Castle "Black & Tan"s in Tralee tried to capture him and "shoot" him also. 

       Frank Teeling from the I. R.A Volunteers who had been wounded and captured in Mount Street was sentenced to "death" by a British Imperial Government Court Marshall and placed in Kilmainham Jail to be hanged, along with Ernest O Malley who was using the alias of Bernard Stewart, who was an Irish Volunteer organizer and had built up the organization in the Midlands and the south of Ireland. Patrick Moran and James / Tom Whelan were also "arrested" and tortured in the Dublin Castle and sentenced to death then placed in with Ernest O Malley at Kilmainham Jail and one of the guards there then gave Ernest O Malley a gun and a pair of wire cutters and he was able to "escape" with Simon Donnelly and Frank Teeling, but Patrick Moran wouldn't go. He believed in "democracy" and knew that he was "innocent" of the charge they had brought against him, but unfortunately for him the British Imperial Government still "executed" him without allowing his evidence to be heard. Simon Donnelly later on after the end of the "Anglo - Irish War" was to become the commanding officer of the Dublin Irish Republican police, while Ernest O Malley who Michael Collins had a high regard for as a fighter was to become the Commander of the 2nd Southern Division of the Irish Volunteers. With the loss of two of their best men in the I.R.A. Volunteers a reorganization was carried out with Oscar Traynor and J. Mooney taking over the positions previously held in the Irish Intelligence by Richard Mac Kee and Peadar Clancy. They set up in the "La Plaza Hotel" where they were in the future "never" raided by the British Imperial Government forces, and J. J." Ginger" O Connell took over as the I.R.A. Volunteer's "Director of Training" and he also set up in the same building were he was assisted by Emmet Dalton.

November 22nd: Mr. Moylett who lived in England was  trying to bring about "Peace" in Ireland by having discussions with David Lloyd - George the British Imperial Prime Minister, and the subject of the demise of the 14 British "Special Agents" came up, and he said to David Lloyd - George, "It was a sad event," to which Lloyd George replied, "Not at all, they got what they deserved, beaten by the counterjumpers," meaning Michael Collins. At this time also Michael O Rourke was also up before the British Court Martial for "killing" a British Army soldier. 

November 23rd: The British Imperial Government "Auxiliaries" also "killed" a student at Lincoln Place in Dublin in cold blood as he was walking away and they continued to carry out raids everywhere and anywhere they liked, and this encouraged many Irish men and women who were not previously behind the "political " Sinn Fein Party to now adopt a different point of view, as they saw plainly themselves what was occurring and were being effected by the "random" violent conduct carried out by the British Imperial Government's Armed Forces. The British Government's Dublin Castle authorities were also by now finally becoming "suspicious" of their own Detectives, and Broy was arrested, but they could find no evidence to convict him, despite this they put him away in "Arbour Jail" until after the "Anglo - Irish Truce." They dismissed Mac Namara also, but he was still able to personally continue to assist Michael Collins, while Neligan was actually promoted and put in the Dublin Castle's "Secret Service" where he was able to continue his good work providing Michael Collins with further information into the future.

     The British Imperial Government under David Lloyd - George had by now set up "internment camps" at Ballykinlar in Co. Down in the north - east of the Ulster Province and at the Curragh below Dublin to intern all of the Irish prisoners.        

November 24th: The British Imperial Government then "arrested" Arthur Griffith the Acting - President of the Dail Eireann, together with Eamonn Duggan and Eoin Mac Neill, and they put them also into the "Mountjoy Jail" in Dublin were Michael Collins was able to keep in contact with them and Arthur Griffith was not to be released until July 11th in 1921, which would then at that time allow him to be able to participate personally in the "Anglo - Irish Truce" that was to come.

     Eamonn de Valera, still in America, on hearing of his "arrest" felt he should return to Ireland and wanted Michael Collins to set it all up for him, while Michael Collins himself had now the added burden of being also the Acting - President of the 1st Dail Eireann.

       The British Imperial Government Forces continued their raids on the Vaughan Hotel to try and capture Michael Collins, and even offered the owner, Mac Guire 40,000 pounds if he would give him up. Christy Harte was also arrested and imprisoned in Dublin Castle were he too was offered a large sum of money and a safe passage out of Ireland to give up Michael Collins and they then released him on this pretext, but he immediately informed Michael Collins of their plan and the British Government Forces then arrested Foley who was the private secretary to the Lord Mayor of Dublin thinking he was Michael Collins, but on realising their mistake they had to let him go. The Vaughan Hotel was now out of bounds for the Irish Republicans, due to the many raids, so Liam Devlin allowed them to use his premises in Parnell Street where they were able to continue to meet right up to the "Anglo - Irish Truce" and  James Kirwan's place was another used especially by Sean Mac Mahon the I.R.A. Volunteer's "Quartermaster General."

November 26th: Patrick Bardy from Loughnane in Co. Galway in the Connacht Province was tortured to death by the Black & Tans at Kinvara in Co. Galway ten days after he had been arrested and was later found in Muddy Pond after being tied to a lorry and dragged around the region and his body burnt.

       British Imperial Government "agents" and two "Auxiliaries," Ames, Bennett, Bagally, Dowling, Garnin, Mac Mahon, Morris, Newbury and Price's bodies were loaded onto a British Naval destroyer to be returned to England, and the Dublin Castle "Auxiliaries" went about knocking the hats off of those Irish who were standing by the way side looking on and the River Liffey was afloat with them and an "official" order was also put out by the British Government's Dublin Castle authorities that only "close relatives" were to attend the funerals of all of those people the British Imperial Government Forces had previously "killed" at the Croke Park football match.  

November 28th: Tom Barry with his "Flying Column" from the Cork I.R.A. Volunteer No 3 Brigade, which was composed of 36 men run up against the British Imperial Government's "Black & Tan Auxiliaries" at Kilmichael near Macroom in Co. Cork in Southern Munster where they had a running gun battle in which only one out of the 21 British "Auxiliaries" was to survive the battle, but he too was to disappear and was never seen again. The  I. R.A Volunteers there had stopped the first British Government Forces truck when their second truck arrived, and they too stated that they would surrender, and the I.R.A. Volunteers stood up to accept their offer, but the "Black & Tan Auxiliaries" then opened fire on them shooting 3 of the I.R.A Volunteers and killing 2 of them outright, including the 16 year old, Patrick Deasy. The I.R.A. Volunteers then returned the fire and they fought on until it was all over, and they were able to capture 18 British rifles and 1800 rounds of ammunitions during the battle. Up until this particular fight to the death "no" shots had ever been fired at the Dublin Castle "Auxiliaries" themselves, who were considered "invincible," but the I.R.A. Volunteers success on this occasion was now to change all that.

     The British Imperial Government Forces arrested Neil Kerr and Stephen Lanigan among others, and put them into the Curragh Interment Camp so Neil Kerr had to somehow arrange for Daly to take over the task of bringing Eamonn de Valera the Priomh Aire of the 1st Dail Eireann safely back from America to Ireland.

      Cathal Brugha as the Irish "Minister of Defence" at the meeting held at the Menerva Hotel was definite that he could "drive" the British Imperial Government out of Ireland and he put forward another proposal to carry out "reprisals" in England where he was going to burn their buildings in retaliation for the constant horror they were inflicting on Ireland, to gain further "publicity" for the Irish cause, there and this was agreed to and Rory O Connor was put in charge and went off to Liverpool were 17 warehouses were destroyed in one night, to be followed by more burnings all over England and among these attacks was the houses of the members of the Dublin Castle's "Black & Tans" themselves, which were carried out under the direction of Sean Flood who had been sent over earlier in November.

November 29th:  The British Imperial Government Forces set fire to the Dublin newspaper, the Freemans Journal, which they then charged with publishing reports of the "atrocities" carried out by their Dublin Castle's "Black & Tans," who now had their headquarters at Beggars Bush. The Freemans Journal articles had also included the horrendous treatment of Quirke who was given the "lash" and Martin Fitz Gerald the proprietor of the paper was charged by a British Imperial Government Court Martial and given 6 months imprisonment. The British Government Forces then also arrested Michael Staines and imprisoned him in with Arthur Griffith, Eamonn Duggan and Eoin Mac Neill in the "Mountjoy Jail."  

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