“Execution, official and unofficial, became a weapon of war, exercised in reprisals, counter reprisals thinly dressed up as military justice. This atrocious legal situation was justified on the grounds that it was absolutely necessary to achieve law and order and secure the very survival of the state.”
Dr Bielenberg said that although his work with Mr Dorney on Civil War casualties in Munster was still at preliminary stage, they had been able to establish that at least 555 combatants from both sides, including those executed judicially and extrajudicially, were killed during the conflict in the province.
Another notable feature of the war in Munster, which probably reflected wider national trends, was that the National Army suffered a higher share of fatalities relative to the anti-Treaty IRA, accounting for over 60 per cent of all combatant deaths across the near eleven months of the conflict. In contrast, the highest number of fatalities in Cork was during the Guerrilla Phase from September 1922 until the end of December 1922, accounting for almost 59 per cent of all combatant deaths in Cork, coinciding with when anti-Treaty IRA resistance was strongest in north Cork and West Cork.
Murphy observed that the anti-Treaty IRA was safe in secluded valleys in the hills but not in the lowlands by the end of 1922 and was still a potent force in the county while the National Army was slow to pursue them in the winter months until the spring of 1923.
Yeah, they were executing their former comrades in arms, a lot of blood letting.
SF nazi party colloborated with Hitler, now they are just BA dirty ops...from 🔥Rachels Believe it or Not 🔥 Tales of the Unexpected..
SF were the nazi party of Ireland, just a friendly reminder because nazis had racist ideology, fascists were just authoritarian/ not racists. Never forget who SF were...the later SF 70s one, conveniently formed to control the narrative of united peaceful civil rights movement
Certainly the free state blueshirts hated the real Irish more than the English themselves. The 'model prisoners' of the British now put in charge of the inmates. Hence the majority Irish people voting in subsequent governments run by a true Gael, DeValera, to restore a balance.
Anyone told James McClean 🤔
They knew the enemy The psychology
RMcGreevy1301 That's hardly news