`."System- "Systemgl܈?ze-"System--@Times New Roman---@Times New Roman--------- 2 x`cFernside   ---  2 xc  @Times New Roman--- 52 `cIntroduction from Chronology         2 Sc  @Times New Roman------------ 2 `cAt '--- 2 {cFernside   --- n2 Bc', the home of Professor Carolan in Drumcondra, Dublin a gunfight                    2 ` ctakes place     j2 ?cbetween a raiding party of Crown Forces and Dan Breen and Sean                     @Times New Roman--------------- /2 `cTracey (from Tipperary 3         --- 2 !crd---  2 +c  V2 .2cBrigade, IRA) who were staying at the house. This           --- p2 `Ccraid results in the death of two BA soldiers and Professor Carolan.                    ---  2 nc  --- 2 ` cMore Detail    2 c  --- A2 )`$cBreen and Tracey escape but Breen is            2 )|c   2 )cbadly injured.       2 )c   2 )c  72 )c(This is the third time that        n2 >`BcBreen is wounded as he was also wounded at Knocklong and Ashtown.)                     2 >c   2 >c  2 >cTwo    t2 T`FcBA officers, Major George Smyth (brother of Lt Col Smyth who had been                        q2 i`Dckilled on July 17th in Cork) and Capt Alfred White are killed during                     2 itc  2 iy cthe raid.      2 ic   2 `McProfessor John Carolan is shot in the neck and dies in the Mater Hospital on                      ------------ 2 ` cOctober 28  --- 2 cth--- n2 Bc. According to Lawlor, Coogan and Townshend, while in hospital,                     2 `McCarolan says that he had been deliberately shot by one of the raiding party.                         2 `cLawlor   w2 Hcalso says that the BA version of Carolans death was different. At the                     2 `Ncinquest, they said that they were using Carolan as a human shield and that he                         y2 `Icwas shot from by a bullet coming from the room that Breen and Tracey was                      =2 `!cstaying. However, Lawlor also sa          R2 a/cys that a number of years later, one of the BA               |2 `Kcraiding party (Capt Jeune) admitted that Carolan had been shot while being                      --- 2 1` cquestioned.   ---  2 1c  --- 2 M`NcThe badly wounded Breen, after some good fortune on his behalf, is brought to                     (2 b`cthe Mater Hospital.       2 bc   2 bc   2 bc   )2 `c(Breen quotes an amb       a2 9culance driver saying that 13 were killed at Fernside and                 2 `ScRyan quotes a British officer saying that five men were lost on the British side.                   2 `OcHowever, as was frequently the case, these casualty numbers were exaggerated.                     C2 `%cHowever, it is not only the Irish sid         C2 w%ce who exaggerate casualties. The BA          Y2 `4cclaimed that at least two rebels lost their lives)            2 c  --- 2 `cBack    2 c @Times New Roman---- @ !*`- ---  2 #`c   2 #dc  "Arial--ccbbaa