You have been warned in good time. April Fool’s Day 2021 is advertised by Amazon Books as the publication date of “KILMICHAEL: THE LIFE AND AFTER LIFE OF AN AMBUSH”
The ambush took place on Sunday 28 November 1920 . Nephews of sixteen-year old Pat Deasy, one of three of the ambushers killed there were in school with me, one in my own class during the 1940s and 1950s.
The ambush went badly for the battle-hardened British Army ex-officers posing as Police Auxuliary Cadets. If you google “Macroom” you can see their funerals at Aldershot, where each of the Aldershot Army Commands participate, with not a sign of a kosher cop, bona-fide bobby or Pukkha Peeler to be seen.
British Government propaganda then and since broadcast lies about the ambush, but when the Government wanted to compensate their force’s families, they asked Tom Barry for help, thus revealing themselves clueless. Tom Barry, sensibly did not co-operate.
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