1 Hansard, H.C., 5th series, vol. 133, col. 1582; vol. 139, cols. 2245, 2384.
2 31 March 1920 to 14 April 1921 ibid., vol. 140, cols. 16, 1277. 1 January 1919 to 31 May 1921 ibid., vol. 143, col. 2172. Also White Paper cited Irish Times, 4 March 1921. Casualties 1 January 1921 to 11 July 1921 see Freeman’s Journal, 12 July 1921, citing official sources.
3 Hansard, H.C., 5th series, vol. 140, col. 1277.
4 ibid., vol. 135, col. 2447.
5 Freeman’s Journal, 12 July 1921.
6 Holt, Protest in Arms, p. 241 and see newspapers passim.
7 Cited Irish Times, 4 February 1921.
8 MacCarthy (ed.), Limerick’s Fighting Story, pp. 107–28.
9 Irish Times, 1, 15, 21 February. For Mourne Abbey see O’Donoghue, No Other Law, pp. 135–6; for Clonmult see Barry, Guerrilla Days, pp. 78–86. Barry has an interesting account (pp. 78–86) of a successful IRA break-out from a similar trap at Burgatia House, Rosscarberry, in the same month. In this the Crown claimed six IRA dead but there were in fact none. See also Irish Times.
10 For Sixmilebridge see Irish Times, 25 January 1921. For MacEoin, see Irish Times, 8 August 1921.
11 See captured IRA document, asking for GHQ guidance on this point, cited Irish Times, 28 February 1921.
12 Irish Times, 6 June 1921.
13 ibid., 7 May 1921.
14 See Hansard, H.C., 5th series, vol. 135, col. 508.
15 Irish Times, 25 January 1921.
16 ibid., 7 February 1921.
17 See advertisement, Irish Times, 14 March 1921.
18 Irish Times, 26 November 1920.
19 ibid., 10 February 1921.
20 ibid., 16 February 1921.
21 ibid., 12 July 1921.
22 ibid., 15 April 1921.
23 ibid., 20 April 1921.
24 O’Malley, On Another Man’s Wound, p. 316.
25 Irish Times, 21 February 1921.
26 Irish Times, 20 June 1921.
27 ibid.
28 ibid., 14 March 1921.
29 MacCready, Annals, vol. ii, pp. 488–9.
30 Irish Times, 13 June 1921.
31 ibid., 22 April 1921.
32 ibid., 4 June 1921.
33 ibid.
34 ibid., 1 June 1921.
35 ibid., 18 June 1921.
36 ibid., 15 March 1921.
37 Captured IRA document dated 7 February 1921, cited in Irish Times, 26 March 1921.
38 Cited in Lyons, Dillon, p. 467.
39 Freeman’s Journal, 12 July 1921.
40 Irish Times, 1 March 1921.
41 ibid., 1, 2 March 1921.
42 ibid., 29 April 1921.
43 Winter, Winter’s Tale, p. 302.
44 Beaslai, Collins, vol. ii, p. 193.
45 O’Malley, op. cit., pp. 328–32.
46 Douglas V. Duff, The Rough with the Smooth, London, 1940, pp. 79–80.
47 O’Malley, op. cit., p. 311.
48 ibid.
49 ibid., p. 326.
50 Irish Times, 16 April 1921; 6 July 1921.
51 O’Donoghue, No Other Law, p. 173.
52 In Downing Street to Sir Hamar Greenwood after the signing of the Treaty. L. S. Amery, My Political Life, 3 vols., London, 1953, vol. ii, p. 230. Greenwood was Amery’s brother-in-law.
53 Longford and O’Neill, De Valera, p. 121.
54 T. P. O’Neill (ed.), Introduction to Frank Gallagher, The Anglo-Irish Treaty, London, 1965, pp. 21–4.
55 Longford and O’Neill, De Valera, pp. 115–16.
56 Hansard, H.C., 5th series, vol. 140, cols. 2044–5.
57 Irish Times, 18 October 1920.
58 ibid., 31 January 1921.
59 ibid., 4 May 1921.
60 Longford and O’Neill, De Valera, p. 123.
61 ibid., p. 125.
62 Sir Harold Nicolson, King George V, London, 1952, pp. 348–54.
63 Macardle, Irish Republic, p. 471.
64 MacCready, Annals of an Active Life, p. 572.
65 Irish Times, 11, 12 July 1921. Freeman’s Journal, 12 July 1921.
66 Irish Times, 16 July 1921.
1 Dail Eireann Official Report, Treaty Debates, p. 143.
2 For the figure of 250,000 see Sir Geoffrey Shakespeare, Let Candles Be Brought In, London, 1949, p. 88.
3 O’Hegarty, The Victory of Sinn Fein, p. 87.
4 Nicolson, George V, p. 356.
5 Forester, Collins, p. 196. The source is a diary entry of Tom Casement’s, dated 14 June 1921.
6 Nicolson, op. cit., p. 351.
7 Pakenham, Peace by Ordeal, p. 88.
8 Longford and O’Neill, De Valera, p. 139.
9 ibid., p. 143.
10 ibid., pp. 149–50.
11 ibid., pp. 152–3.
12 ibid., p. 157.
13 Pakenham, Peace By Ordeal, pp. 315–16.
14 ibid., pp. 218, 299–300.
15 For text of Treaty see Macardle, Irish Republic, pp. 953–8.
16 Forester, Collins, pp. 249–50. Source: a Collins minute of the interview. In the Dail Debate on the Treaty, Collins declared it as his belief that the way in which the Treaty dealt with the problem of the North-East would bring it under an Irish Parliament. Dail Eireann Official Report, p. 35.
17 Taylor, Collins, p. 163.
18 Forester, op. cit., p. 260.
19 Taylor, Collins, p. 175.
20 ibid., p. 165.
21 For Document No. 2 see Macardle, Irish Republic, pp. 959–63.
1 Dail Eireann Official Report, Treaty Debate, p. 34.
2 ibid., p. 46.
3 ibid., p. 229.
4 Cited Macardle, Irish Republic, p. 678.
5 ibid., pp. 658–60.
6 Forester, Collins, pp. 287–8.
7 ibid., pp. 729–30.
8 Forester, Collins, p. 306. Hansard, H.C., 5th series, vol. 154, col. 2149.
9 ibid.
10 Dail Eireann Official Report, 28 April 1922, p. 340.
11 ibid., 26 April 1922, pp. 256–7. Report by Richard Mulcahy.
12 Macardle, op. cit., p. 721.
13 Calton Younger, Ireland’s Civil War, London, 1968, p. 318.
14 Taylor, Collins, p. 235.
15 Macardle, op. cit., p. 754.
16 Calton Younger, op. cit., p. 401.
17 Taylor, Collins, p. 236.
18 ibid., pp. 238–9.
19 Forester, Collins, p. 329.
20 ibid., p. 332.
21 Dail Eireann Official Report, vol. i, p. 2264.
22 ibid., p. 2274.
23 ibid., p. 2267.
24 T. de Vere White, Kevin O’Higgins, paperback ed., Tralee, 1968, p. 131.
25 ibid., pp. 206–7.
26 ibid., p. 203.
27 For MacNeill’s statement and Feetham’s views see Macardle, op. cit., pp. 886–7.
28 ibid., p. 892.
1 Macardle, Irish Republic, p. 858.
2 For a reasoned speculation about their identity see T. P. Coogan, Ireland Since the Rising, London, 1966, pp. 261–2.
3 ibid., p. 65.
4 Freeman’s Journal, 26 November 1913.
5 For this story see Freeman’s Journal, 28 March 1914.