My colourised footage of a Pathé newsreel from March 1922, during the Irish War of Independence showing invading forces, occupy houses, The Glenworth Hotel and the Shannon Rowing Club and marching through the streets of Limerick City armed. #Limerick #Ireland #Dublin #History pic.twitter.com/MeyvQOSGOW
— Rob Cross (@RobCross247) January 30, 2020
In fairness.
Oops https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_War_of_Independence
“..or Anglo-Irish War was a guerrilla war fought in Ireland from 1919 to 1921”
It’s the Irish Civil War, of course, when I.R.A. units moved into the city to face down Michael Brennan’s and Donnchadha Hannigan’s Free State/Provisional Government forces. June-July 1922.
thanks, so I take it his “war of independence” is a deliberate provocation?
The descendants of these guys are still marching through the streets of Limerick “armed”.
In fairness to him, he could well be working off a mistitled archive and simply repeated an erroneous caption. Pathé news labelled the I.R.A. as ‘invading forces’ ‘twould appear. Technically Limerick was ‘Liam Lynch’s area’ so if anyone was invading it was Brennan and his Clare contingent.
Ah here, Meelick is spitting distance away!
‘Twasn’t geography brought Brennan to Limerick ;)
fair enough.
A pity there isn’t any footage around about the “Limerick Soviet”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limerick_Soviet
“The Limerick Soviet (Irish: Sóibhéid Luimnigh) was a self-declared Irish soviet that existed from 15 to 27 April 1919 in County Limerick, Ireland. At the beginning of the Irish War of Independence, a general strike was organised by the Limerick Trades and Labour Council, as a protest against the British Army’s declaration of a “Special Military Area” under the Defence of the Realm Act, which covered most of Limerick city and a part of the county. The soviet ran the city for the period, printed its own money and organised the supply of food.[1] The Limerick Soviet was one of a number of Irish soviets declared between 1919 and 1923.”
There’s a review of Liam Cahill’s reissued book ‘Forgotten revolution: The Limerick Soviet 1919’ in the latest edition of History Ireland magazine (Volume 28, No.1 January/February 2020, page 63). The review’s by D.R. O’Connor Lysaght.
I first learned about it from “The Rubberbandits Guide to 1916”!