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Nameplate Military vehicle (Kilmichael Ambush Crossley Tender)

"Raffle Tickets - E. Cork, 3rd Battalion, 1st. Brigade - 1/11/1920"

"Friday May 14th 1920 - John T. Murphy, Crossmahon House- elected Sinn Fein member"

Newspaper clipping referring to Wormwood Scrubs Hunger Strike 1920 - "The Prisoners, 160 Men from All Parts of the Country on Hunger Strike"

Map - Kilmichael Ambush

Lee Enfield Bayonet (1898)

Tomas MacCurtain photograph

Photograph of Pat Deasy - Killed Kilmichael Ambush

In February 1921, just two years into the War of Independence, the 3rd Cork Brigade of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) was in the midst of what Tom Barry referred to as “twelve dark days” for them. In all 11 members of the Brigade were killed; 7…

R.I.C. Key Ring badge