#OnThisDay 1920 Meath IRA attacked Trim RIC barracks, in what Michael Collins called a ‘very big Job’. The IRA attacked while the majority of police were at 8am Sunday Mass. One constable was shot.That night, Auxiliaries looted & burned many places in the town.
#OnThisDay 1922 Sean Hyde, an All Ireland hurling winner, lead an abortive attack on Free State army in Kerry. Hyde had been close with Michael Collins & was involved in Bloody Sunday. Originally with the FS during the Civil War, he switched sides.
IRA Organisational Map. A village or town comprised a company; a number of companies formed a battalion&a number of battalions formed a brigade. By July 1921, the IRA had roughly 65 brigades & 297 battalions with a strength of 115,550 Volunteers.
#OnThisDay 1965 James FitzMaurice passed away. He fought at the Somme & after time at the Front, trained as a RAF pilot & was posted to France the day the war ended.He was the co-pilot of the ‘Bremen’, the first transatlantic flight from East to West 1928.
#OnThisDay 1916 Corporal Frederick Edwards, from Cobh, was in an attack on German lines. With all officers casualties & his unit about to retreat, Edwards ran forward, bombed a machine gun nest&saved the charge. For this, he was awarded the Victoria Cross.
The Irish at War 