An advertisement in the current (and Splendid) September/October HISTORY IRELAND is headed The Eclectic Collector.
It features a photo of a man in British Army Officer’s Uniform beside three medals with ribbons (which are for sale), described as “1920 (21st November) British War Medals to Captain G.T.Baggallay, assassinated by Michael Collins’ ‘Squad’ on ‘Bloody Sunday.’
Whytes concede, as few British authorities do, that a war was being waged in Ireland in 1920.
Captain Baggallay’s medals were conferred posthumously for the service he had rendered his Sovereign, the cowardly and coldblooded murders in their beds of persons believed to be republicans.
Which might include most of the Irish electorate.
Baggallay and thirteen of his gang were executed by elements of the Dublin Brigade,Irish Republican Army, and that Army’s Intelligence Squad.
The Head of Intelligence ( Collins)was also the Finance Minister of Dail Eireann, to which he had been elected by voters in two constituencies, one in County Cork and the other in County Armagh. Collins was acting with the support of Cabinet and Army Colleagues.
Eamon de Valera, the Republican Cabinet Leader, who had also been elected by two constituencies, (one in County Clare and the other in Co.Mayo) defended the execution of spies and informers seeking to destroy the legitimate government.
Dev horrified C.P.Scott, the humbug sham-democrat Editor of The Manchester Guardian.
Colonial masters insist on “democracy “ on their terms!