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Chargement... The Year of Disappearances: Political Killings in Cork 1921-1922par Gerard Murphy
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Revealing book on an untold story. Disappearances, mainly of Protestants, in Cork (mainly City) likely to have been murders. Many reminiscences have distorted the date to make it appear they were during the War of Independence when they were after the Truce and particularly after the Treaty was agreed and Cork was in the hands of the Anti-Treaty IRA. Unfortunately the book is arranged in the order that the author made his discoveries and it would take a remarkable memory to follow all the characters (murderers and murdered) whose names kept cropping up.
Events leading up to and during the life span of the “Cork Republic” of 1921-2 continue to provoke debate. Gerard Murphy’s study, concentrating on the activities of the Cork No 1 Brigade of the IRA, is the latest contribution to a growing body of work, most notably that of the late Peter Hart and John Borgonovo. Murphy’s book attempts to unravel a tightly-knotted ball of partial evidence, local rumour, gossip and coincidence surrounding the treatment of alleged spies and informers by the Cork No 1 Brigade and especially its No 2 Battalion, centred around Blackrock and Douglas, on Cork’s southside.
'Murphy names the names ... his scope is comprehensive and covers reprisals and assassinations in both city and county ... Disappearances, executions, graves and departures are listed by Murphy in compelling statistics.' The Irish Times 'Every spy who was shot in Cork was buried so that nothing was known about them. They just disappeared.' These are the words of an IRA commander recalling the War of Independence in Cork city. The Year of Disappearances examines this claim and others like it. It uncovers a web of suspicion and paranoia that led to scores of men and boys being abducted from their homes before being executed as 'enemies of the Republic' and their bodies buried. While some of this took place during the War of Independence, most of it happened the following year, during the so-called 'Cork Republic'. The net result was to change the demographic of the south-eastern corner of the city for ever, with hundreds of families fleeing and up to fifty individuals buried in unmarked graves in surrounding areas. Using a wide range of previously untapped sources, Murphy shines new light on one of the darker episodes of twentieth-century Irish history. The Year of Disappearances is a ground-breaking book that deepens our knowledge and understanding of the War of Independence. It subverts many myths, and examines realities long hidden. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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