Book Review
Kilmichael – the dangerous business of digging for facts about a still-contested ambush
Eve Morrison was threatened and misled when researching the 1920 IRA ambush in West Cork that left 18 RIC men dead and injured
Writing about the 1920 Kilmichael ambush can be a dangerous business. While researching this book, Eve Morrison warns, she was “verbally threatened, actively misled more than once, shouted at in the streets by strangers and shadowed when visiting the site. One individual I spoke to asked if I was wearing a wire.”
Why does the War of Independence episode that cost more lives than any other arouse such strong feelings today? Partly because historians still ...