Remembering the Kilmichael Ambush 28th November 1920

A 360o short documentary undertaken by Wombat Media, working with and on behalf of Cork County Council to commemorate the centenary of the Kilmichael Ambush featuring local interviews and footage. This production forms part of Cork County Council’s Decade of Centenaries Commemorative Programme, developed by Cork County Council’s Commemorations Committee and supported by Cork County Council and the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sports and Media.

[@charliecoleman7510]

Brave volunteers Irish through &through Irish Republican Army will live forever Ireland for the Irish

[@seanohare5488]

I agree

[@oggioggi7915]

Independent left website has a picture of a uniform they claim to be the uniform Tom Barry wore on that day.

[@joehart7260]

Not sure if the false surrender part is true, Barry would have probably just wiped them all out anyway.

[@monaghan5475]

Why not? the Tans did not accept the taking of prisoners or surrender.

[@joehart7260]

@@monaghan5475 Barry said it himself. "They went down into the dirt, and down into the dirt after them we had to go."

[@kathleenjames7641]

My grandmother Mamie Spillane from Bantry spoke about the boys who rose to accept the surrender and were shot dead, so I don't doubt the story

[@brianbozo2447]

Why not provide a map and detail who the individual black and tans were and what conditions were before and after the ambush.

[@dobman2011]

They were auxies not tans and who gives a fook who they were?

[@eytonshalomsandiego]

glory to the heroes

[@oggioggi7915]

"Let the fight go on"! Patsy O Hara

[@volcorkbrigade]

Wonder have any of the familys kepted the rifles from the ambush from a historic point of view

[@paraicbond3445]

Disappointing that very little was preserved from this time. In my opinion, this issue and the lack of objective discussion about the time is due to the civil war

[@marks_sparks1]

Yes, it would be be great had they did. They would be extremely valuable given the majority of the rifles were Canadian Ross MkIII

[@volcorkbrigade]

@@marks_sparks1 I though they would have been 303 lee Enfields rifles??

[@johnroche7541]

@@volcorkbrigade Tom Barry was a Section Commander at the Toureen ambush in October 1920. Three British soldiers were killed and the IRA captured some SMLE(Lee Enfields). The IRA treated the British prisoners well but thjuye latter later went on the rampage.

[@johnroche7541]

@@volcorkbrigade The 3 British soldiers killed as a result of the Toureen ambush on 22nd October 1920 were Lt.Dixon(Suffolk Regiment attached to 1st Essex),PteC.Reid(1st Essex),Sgt.T Bennett(RASC). The British were also fighting an insurgency in Mesopotamia(modern day Iraq) at the same time. I like to give the following fact to Irish people. On 20th July 1920 the IRA in Cork ambushed a military lorry containing soldiers from the 1st Manchesters and killed 2 soldiers. 4 days later in Mesopotamia on 24th July 1920 its sister regiment the 2nd Manchesters would have over 130 soldiers killed by Iraqi tribesmen.

[@Fire_And_Iron]

I’m an American with ancestors from this area.

[@philhyland9889]

P:

[@hannahharrington1173]

Up the rebels god bless them xx

[@mjw12345]

Whatever the truth on the various controversies, Barry for sure had some major cojones.

[@tomtwomey8641]

❤️❤️🇮🇪

[@helenmurphy3143]

my foser dad was from cork dan murphy an old ira man r I p

[@dobman2011]

You mean "an ira man". There's no such thing as an old or new ira man except in the minds of shoneen media types.

[@TheDustysix]

Hegarty here.

[@motivationalshorts5057]

Im from kilmicheal the boys of kilmicheal won the war of independece

[@hughslevin7120]

THEY played their part certainly and in spite of the efforts to vilify them at the time and recently they were supported to the end by the Greatest of them all MICHAEL COLLINS He would have won full independence if he was given the chance RIP To them all

[@jimmymulholland1651]

Up the republic

[@lukebyrne610]

Yoooo first

[@ballygeale1]

If you want to trick a cork man..you have to use cork mans tricks to trick him.

[@tommac4658]

Cowardly ambush by murderers.

[@patrickball2493]

It's the only way they could fight . Ambushing them . Face to Face they would have no chance , they would have being wiped out by the British superior weapons and firepower .

[@kennethjamieson4809]

Brilliant song too, the Brits are no match for the Irish or Scots in a fair fight.

[@kennethjamieson4809]

A terrible camera.

[@hughslevin7120]

GORILLA WARFARE IS THE ONLY WAY TO FIGHT AN EMPIRE The real cowads were the Black and Tans and the British forces They were responsible for the so called famine which was in fact A GENOCIDE which was only 50 to 60 years before

[@tommac4658]

@@hughslevin7120 but when the British pulled out the Irish started a civil war and started killing each other. I suppose that was the Empires fault as well.