*   `."System- "System glϊ-"System--@Times New Roman---@Times New Roman--------- 42 q`cMourne Abbey Counter Ambush       ---  2 qqc  @Times New Roman--------- 52 `cIntroduction from Chronology       ---  2 Sc  @Times New Roman------------ )2 `cIRA ambush party at        --- 2  cMourne Abbey    ---  2 c  52 cin Co. Cork is surprised by          2 kca  2 ycBritish    V2 `2cforce. Four IRA men are killed and eight captured               2 c   2 c  #2 ctwo of whom are      ------ ,2 `csubsequently executed.       ---  2 c  --------- 2 ` cMore Detail  ---  2 c  --- 2 <`cThe  2 <cMallow    e2 <<cBattalion Column, under Jack Cunningham (with the battalion                  D2 R`&cCommandant, Tadg Byrne, also present)           2 Rcwere  2 Rclay  2 Rcing   2 Rc  .2 Rcin ambush on the Mallow          2 Rc-  22 g`cCork road at Mourne Abbey         2 gF cwhen they      2 gc  @2 g#care surrounded by a strong British           2 }`cforce.   2 }c   2 }c  a2 }9cThree IRA Volunteers were killed outright (Patrick Flynn,              2 }]c  2 }bcPatrick    }2 `LcDorgan and amonn Creedon) and another later dies of his wounds on February                      @Times New Roman--------------- 2 `c22 --- 2 tcnd---  2 c  (2 c(Michael Looney).      2 c   2 `NcThe men killed were ordered to run by a British Army officer before they were                     @2 `#cfired on while trying to escape.          2 [c   2 `c  :2 ccEight Volunteers are taken pris         2 R coner and two    ------------ O2 `-cof them are subsequently executed on April 28             --- 2 cth---  2 c  2  cafter court    2 "c- )2 (cmartial. (They are       ------ A2 `$cPatrick Ronayne and Thomas Mulcahy).          2 c   2 c  2 cSee  2 cApr   2 c- 2 c28   2 c- 2  c21/2.  ---  2 1c  --- 2 8`cTwo men     2 8c   2 8c  S2 80cWilliam Shields and Charles (or James) Saunders           2 8Gc-  2 8Mc  2 8Rcwere   %2 N`csubsequently shot       2 Nc  )2 Ncby the IRA for alleg       F2 N'cedly giving information to the British                t2 c`FcArmy about the location of the IRA ambush party at Mourne Abbey. See                      2 ccJul   2 cc- ------ 2 y`c07   2 ytc- 2 yz c21/3 and May      2 yc- 2 yc31   2 yc- 2 yc21/12   "2 y:crespectively.    ---  2 yc  --- 2 `PcDespite the focus of the IRA on informers, in July 1921, Liam Lynch in a report                        ,2 `con Mourne Abbey said t        P2  .chat he was now certain that Shields was not             2 `Rcresponsible but that Poor leadership and indiscipline in the local unit seemed a                     --- ,2 `cmore likely culprit.      ---  2 c  ---@Times New Roman--------- 2 `cBack  ---  2 c @Times New Roman---- @ !* `-  ---  2 0`c   2 0dc    2 U`c   2 Udc  "Arial--ccbbaa