West Cork Brigade Training Camp at Glandore
Introduction
from Chronology
Start of week-long Irish Volunteer training camp at Shorecliffe
House, Glandore, Co. Cork for 35 battalion and company officers of the No. 3
(West) Cork Brigade of the IRA.
More Detail
The training camp was led by Dick McKee (Director of Training in
GHQ and O/C Dublin Brigade). Also present from GHQ were Gearoid
O'Sullivan (Adj Gen); Leo Henderson (Asst Director of Communications) and Tom
McMahon (Asst Director of Engineering). The training camp was raided on
the morning of August 13th by the RIC and British Army. The
British forces arrested four men (including O'Sullivan) and left.
The training camp continued. A full list of the men who
attended the training camp is given in Appendix C of Deasy (1973), pgs 333-334.
A short account from the
RIC perspective of this raid is given in his memoir by John M Regan. He was a
serving RIC man at the time – see Regan (2007), pgs 122-123.