September 1922
|
Early-Sept |
During an attack on
Carrickmacross Barracks (Co. Monaghan) by anti-Treaty forces, a pro-Treaty soldier Private Patrick McCabe from Bawn is killed. A civilian, John O’Leary, is also fatally
wounded by a stray bullet. |
Dooley (2017a), pg
107 |
|
Sep-01 |
Two anti-Treaty
volunteers, Leo Murray and Rodney Murphy, are shot dead when pro-Treaty
troops raid the cottage in which they are sleeping in Stillorgan, Co.
Dublin. Two other anti-Treaty
volunteers are wounded and captured. |
Dorney (2017), pg
181 |
|
Sep-01 |
Liam Lynch writes
to Liam Deasy saying “I know of no alternative policy of present one of
fighting … At present it is a waste of time to be thinking too much about
policy.” |
Hopkinson (1988),
pg 134 |
|
Seo-01 |
An anti-Treaty
prisoner, Richard Monks from Kilkenny, is shot dead when allegedly trying to
escape from the Curragh, Co. Kildare |
Durney (2011), pg
150 |
|
Sep-02 |
Cope reports that
27,400 rifles, 6,066 revolvers, 246 Lewis guns and five Vickers guns had been
supplied by the British Government to the Provisional Government. |
Hopkinson (1988),
pg 127 |
|
Sep-02 |
William O’Brien and
Tom Johnson (Labour Leaders) say that Cosgrave and Mulcahy tell them that if
the anti-Treaty forces disbanded, they could keep their arms ‘and the
government would not molest them’. The anti-Treatyites refuse this
offer and the Provisional Government later deny ever making it. |
Hopkinson (1988),
pg 183; Curran J M (1980), pg 251 |
|
Sep-02 |
A British military
intelligence report states that “several Republicans have been murdered under
extremely revolting circumstances, probably as a reprisal for [the death of]
Collins” |
Dorney (2017), pg
178 |
|
Sep-02 |
Anti-Treaty forces
attack Macroom, Co. Cork using the armoured car River Lee, but it is
little more than extended sniping. |
Hopkinson (1988),
pg 203 |
|
Sep-02 |
Ten members of the
anti-Treaty ASU commanded by Thomas Keating is surprised and captured by
pro-Treaty forces at their base in Kilrossanty in the Comeragh
Mountains. They hadn’t posted
sentries. A month later another
section of the ASU is captured near Kilmacthomas, Co. Waterford which greatly
diminishes it as a fighting force. |
McCarthy (2015), pg
112 |
|
Sep-Early |
Liam Lynch switches
Sean Hyde from O/C Western Command to be Director of Intelligence while
admitting that “Our Intelligence system is in great need of
organization.” Michael Kilroy is made O/C Western Command. Pa
Murray is made O/C Britain. |
Hopkinson (1988),
pg 130 & 212 & 254 |
|
Sep-03 |
An anti-Treaty
volunteer, James Stephens (originally from Belleek), is taken from his
lodgings in Gardiner Street, Dublin.
He is taken out to the Naas Road where he is shot – he dies later that
night in hospital. |
Dorney (2017), pg
181 |
|
Sep-04 |
Dromahaire, Co.
Sligo is taken by anti-Treaty forces. |
Hopkinson (1988),
pg 215 |
|
Sep-04 |
The flying column
of the anti-Treaty Kerry No. 3 brigade ambush a pro-Treaty patrol at
Ohermong, three miles from Cahirciveen on the road to Waterville. Two pro-Treaty soldiers (Lieutenant Clement
Cooper and Sergeant John O’Donoghue) are killed and one anti-Treaty volunteer
(James ‘Jama’ O’Connell) is wounded. |
Horgan
(2018), pg 100 & 150 |
|
Sep-04 |
A civilian, Mrs
Katie Walsh, is shot dead during a sniping attack on pro-Treaty forces in
Waterford City. |
McCarthy (2015), pg
113 |
|
Sep-05 |
Following the
publication of possible (but unrealistic) peace terms by de Valera, a meeting
between Mulcahy and de Valera is arranged. (Mulcahy said that he agreed as he
believed that de Valera had changed his views but only told Eoin MacNeill of
his cabinet colleagues.) However, nothing came of the meeting as
Mulcahy was looking for agreement on the basis of the Treaty while de Valera
was looking for its revision. Rest of
cabinet annoyed when they found out about this meeting. |
Hopkinson (1988),
pgs 183-184; Macardle (1999), pg 780; Curran J M (1980), pg 252; Dorney
(2017), pg 134 |
|
Sep-05 |
Anti-Treaty
Adjutant General sends an order to all Divisions telling them to “make a list
of all officers [responsible for the killing of anti-Treaty prisoners] and
deal suitably with them when the opportunity presents itself” |
Dorney (2017), pg
183 |
|
Sep-06 |
An Irish Times
special correspondent states that “There is no doubt that Mr [Erskine]
Childers is the chief military brain among the Irregulars”. This is
untrue but part of growing animosity (from pro-Treaty and British sides)
against Childers. |
Hopkinson (1988),
pg 133 |
|
Sep-06 |
Two pro-Treaty
soldiers die in a vehicle crash near Kilmeaden, Co Waterford. |
McCarthy (2015), pg
112 |
|
Sep-07 |
Writing to
anti-Treaty TD Charles Murphy, de Valera recommended against anti-Treaty TDs
attending the Dáil and stressed that since the Second Dáil was not legally
dissolved, it could not be legally replaced by a new assembly. In the end,
only one anti-Treaty TD attends. |
Hopkinson (1988),
pg 187; Curran J M (1980), pg 253 |
|
Sep-07 |
After some
stalling, British cabinet acquiesces in Craig determination to abolish
Proportional Representation for local elections in Northern Ireland (thus
removing an important safeguard for Catholics). |
Curran J M (1980),
pg 247 |
|
Sep-08 |
Anti-Treaty
Volunteer, Timothy Kenefick, is captured in Cork and killed while in custody
– apparently after being tortured. |
Dorney (2017), pg
130 |
|
Sep-09 |
The Third Dáil,
elected in June, meets on this day for the first time after a number of
postponements. Anti-Treaty deputies do not attend except the aging
Laurence Ginnell who was ejected. (There was considerable debate among
anti-Treatyites about attending but, in the end, they decide against
it.) Cosgrave was elected President of the Dáil. There was much
debate as to correct terminology but Cosgrave announces his intention to
formally merge Dáil and Provisional Parliament. Comment |
O'Farrell P (1997),
pg xxii; Hopkinson (1988), pg 180; Macardle (1999), pg 779-785; Curran J M
(1980), pg 252; Dorney (2017), pg 138 |
|
Sep-09 |
Anti-Treaty forces
led by Sean Hyde and John Joe Rice carry out a successful attack on
Kenmare. There are about 84 men in the attacking party and Tom
‘Scarteen’ O’Connor the pro-Treaty O/C (and his brother John) are killed
during the attack (apparently unarmed). The anti-Treaty forces capture
110 rifles, 2 Lewis machine guns and considerable ammunition. They also
capture 120 pro-Treaty soldiers but they let them go. |
Hopkinson (1988),
pg 175 & 206; Horgan
(2018), pg 50; Doyle (2008), pgs
165-173 |
|
Sep-09 |
Anti-Treaty forces,
under Frank Carty, attack pro-Treaty posts in Tubbercurry and Ballymote in
Co. Sligo. One pro-Treaty man and
anti-Treaty man are killed but neither post is taken. |
Farry (2012), pg
102 |
|
Sep-09 |
Oscar Traynor, Liam
Pilkington and other jailed anti-Treaty leaders express their wish for a
meeting of the anti-Treaty TDs and the election of a new President. (Farry says that Pilkington is not jailed
at this period but recuperating from a broken limb) |
Hopkinson (1988),
pg 186; Farry (2012), pg 103 |
|
Sep-09 |
Seamus Woods,
leader of the Northern Pro-Treaty IRA, complains that northern volunteers in
the Curragh had not been given rifles. |
Phoenix (1994), pg
252 |
|
Sep-10 |
A convoy of
pro-Treaty forces (under Commandant J. McGuinness) ambushed between Killarney
and Rathmore and lost seven men. (Same
as September 16th or August 18th?) |
Hopkinson (1988),
pg 204 |
|
Sep-10 |
In a letter to Joe
McGarrity, de Valera blamed the pro-Treatyites for starting the Civil War but
admitted that the majority in the country were for the Treaty. He
describes Cosgrave as a “ninny” who would be “egged on by the Church” against
the anti-Treatyites. |
Curran J M (1980),
pg 253 |
|
Sep-10 |
Anti-Treaty forces
from the Kerry No. 1 Brigade take Tarbert. About this time, Abbeyfeale is
also briefly taken by anti-Treaty forces. |
Hopkinson (1988),
pg 207; Doyle (2008), pgs 173-174 |
|
Sep-11 |
At Carrigaphocca
Bridge, about three miles from Macroom on the road to Ballyvourney in Co.
Cork, a massive land mine kills seven pro-Treaty soldiers – including former
prominent Squad member Colonel Commandant Tom
Keogh. Another killed was Raph
Conway. In the aftermath of
the explosion, an anti-Treaty prisoner (James Buckley) is shot dead and his
body thrown into the hole made by the explosion. More Detail |
Boyne (2015), pg
185; Dorney (2017), pg 130 |
|
Sep-11 |
Writing from Cork
to his Commander-in-Chief, Emmet Dalton said that “They [Anti-Treaty forces]
have now adopted a type of warfare, of which they have years of experience.
They now operate over territory which they know. They are now better
armed and better trained than they were against the British. In short,
they have placed me and my Troops in the same position as the British were a
little over a year ago”. |
Hopkinson (1988),
pg 174 |
|
Sep-11/12 |
Cosgrave and
Mulcahy make statements to the Dáil on the events that led up to the decision
to attack the Four Courts. The motion “that the Dáil approves of the
action that the Government has taken and is taking to assert and vindicate
the authority of this House” is passed by 54 votes to 15. |
Macardle (1999),
pgs 785-786 |
|
Sep-12 |
Bomb and gun attack
by anti-Treatyites on a car full of CID officers in Drumcondra in Dublin
leaves two bystanders badly wounded. Same day, there is an attack on a
pro-Treaty army lorry in Curzon St off the South Circular Road. The attackers miss (injuring a civilian)
and are chased through the streets.
They are caught and shot in Bishop Street killing one, Sean
McEvoy. |
Dorney (2017), pg
153 |
|
Sep-12 |
Anti-Treaty forces
led by Michael Kilroy and PJ Ruttledge carry out a successful raid on
Ballina, Co. Mayo in which they retake the town and capture 50 pro-Treaty
soldiers, over 100 rifles and 20,000 rounds of ammunition. Despite
substantial fighting, a young civilian, Malachy Gereghty, is the only
fatality. (Afterwards, the anti-Treaty
forces withdraw from the town but only after many of them had enjoyed a
drink. Kilroy is unhappy with his men
drinking.) A few days later, a
large pro-Treaty force pursue the anti-Treaty forces into the Ox Mountains
and pro-Treaty Brigadier Joe Ring is killed in the ensuing gun battle.
(Ring was one of the few Mayo IRA officers to go pro-Treaty.) Pro-Treaty
Sergeant John Ingram is also killed. (Price says that
the raid on Ballina took place on the 10th.) |
Hopkinson (1988),
pg 175 & 213-214; Macardle (1999), pg 800; Price (2012), pgs 225-226 |
|
Sep-13 |
Writing to
anti-Treaty TD Charles Murphy, de Valera outlines the three options he saw
with regard to setting up governance of the anti-Treaty side: (1) ‘The
Republican Party … take control, acting as legitimate Dáil’;
(2) ‘The Army Executive take control and assume responsibility’ and
(3) ‘A Joint Committee be formed to decide policy for both’. More Detail |
Hopkinson (1988),
pg 187; Macardle (1999), pg
806; Curran J M (1980), pg 254 |
|
Sep-13 |
Writing to Brigade
O/C’s in his anti-Treaty 1st Southern Division, Liam Deasy wrote
“There are indications that in many instances A.S.U.s are not properly
staffed, … carry out no systematic method of attempted ambush, or other forms
of attack”. |
Hopkinson (1988),
pg 174 |
|
Sep-13 |
A Protestant
messenger boy, John Walker, is shot dead by a lone gunman on Little George St
in Belfast. |
Parkinson (2004),
pg 304 |
|
Sep-13 |
Retired RIC man,
James O’Rourke, is killed on Merchant’s Quay, Dublin – the unintended victim
of an attack on pro-Treaty soldiers. |
Dorney (2017), pg
153 |
|
Sep-14 |
Ambush by Kilroy’s
anti-Treaty column on 40 pro-Treaty soldiers between Ballycastle and Belderg,
Co. Mayo, |
Hopkinson (1988),
pg 214 |
|
Sep-14 |
The pro-Treaty
garrison in Drumshanbo, Co. Leitrim is captured by anti-Treaty forces. |
Hopkinson (1988),
pg 215 |
|
Sep-14 |
A bomb is thrown
into a group of children playing in Ton St., near Cullingtree Rd, in the west
of Belfast. Two teenagers are seriously wounded and Louisa Cannon (30)
died from stomach wounds received. Later Arthur Heany (21) was shot in
the stomach in the Oldpark area of the city. |
Parkinson (2004),
pg 304-5 |
|
Sep-Mid |
A large sweep by
pro-Treaty forces organised by General W R E Murphy converging on
Ballyvourney is unsuccessful as the plans are known in advance to the
anti-Treaty forces. Murphy replaces O’Duffy as O/C of Pro-Treaty
forces in Kerry and soon (as in Mayo and Sligo) closes down small outposts. |
Hopkinson (1988),
pg 204 |
|
Sep-16 |
Writing to
Churchill about the Dáil’s intention to enact the Public Safety Bill, Andy
Cope says “They are now going to take the gloves off”. |
Hopkinson (1988),
pg 194 |
|
Sep-16 |
In response to
divisional demands for more organised attacks on pro-Treaty forces, Humphrey
Murphy (O/C Kerry No. 1 Brigade) says “Give ye typewriter and your index
finger a rest for a few weeks, because the harvest being generally late in my
Brigade, the crop of I/O’s is not yet mature and the harvesters are few.” |
Hopkinson (1988),
pg 206 |
|
Sep-16 |
Diarmuid O’Hegarty,
Director of Organisation of the pro-Treaty army, writes to Mulcahy saying
that he is awaiting a government decision as to whether the Northern
volunteers in the Curragh should be asked to decide either to join the
pro-Treaty army or go back to their homes. |
Phoenix (1994), pg
252 |
|
Sep-16 |
The Dundalk Democrat reports on an inquest
into the death of pro-Treaty Private Patrick McBreen who was killed in an
ambush on Church St, Dundalk. Later in
September, another pro-Treaty soldier, Owen Sherlock, was killed in Dundalk. |
Hall (2019), pg 113 |
|
Sep-16 |
The Belfast Telegraph
states “The peace of Belfast does not apparently meet with favour in some
quarters, as, after a good period of welcome orderliness, some persons of the
hooligan type have been doing their best to revive the awful deeds which
disgraced the city several months ago.” |
Parkinson (2004),
pg 305 |
|
Sep-16 |
A 14-cart
unescorted supply convoy was on its way to Killarney, Co. Kerry when it was
held up by armed men at Brennan’s Pass near Farranfore and several tons of
supplies stolen. |
Doyle (2008), pg
176 |
|
Sep-17 |
Kilroy’s
anti-Treaty column raid Newport, Co. Mayo but fail to take it. (Newport
is evacuated by the pro-Treaty men on the 24th September.) |
Hopkinson (1988),
pg 214 |
|
Sep-17 |
Members of the 3rd
Battalion of the anti-Treaty Dublin Brigade, led by Joe O’Connor, attack
Oriel House, HQ of the increasingly notorious Criminal Investigation
Department (CID). Detective Tony Deane is shot dead. As the anti-Treaty volunteers fled, they
are followed and in a subsequent firefight in Mount St, two pro-Treaty soldiers
were wounded. One anti-Treaty
volunteer, Patrick Mannion, was killed (reportedly after being shot in the
leg, he was ‘finished off’ by shots to the head). Paddy Brennan, O/C anti-Treaty Kildare
Brigade is captured and Michael Price, O/C anti-Treaty 1st Eastern
Division, replaces him with Jim Dunne, |
Dorney (2017), pg
169 -170; Durney (2011), pgs 95-96 |
|
Sep-17 |
In the afternoon,
two Catholics – Thomas McCullagh (40) and James McCluskey (41) – shot by
snipers in the York St. area of Belfast. Later, a Catholic woman – Jane
Rafferty (40) - living in the Garmoyle St area was shot dead in her home in
New Andrew St. (Mrs Rafferty was probably killed by Alex Robison (‘Buck
Alec’) – a notorious Protestant paramilitary and sectarian killer.) |
Parkinson (2004),
pg 305; McDermott (2001), pg 270 |
|
Sep-17 |
Thirty-five-year-old
Thomas Power is walking in Tralee, Co. Kerry when he is killed by a single
shot. It is known why he was killed or
by whom. |
Doyle (2008), pg
177 |
|
Sep-18 |
Despite what it
said two days earlier, the Belfast Telegraph refers to Belfast as a
“bright spot” in “the midst of the darkness and gloom that hang over southern
Ireland”. |
Parkinson (2004),
pg 307 |
|
Sep-18 |
Cosgrave introduces
into the Dáil a bill to enact the Constitution of the Irish Free State.
On the following day, the Dáil agrees to the preparation of a new electoral
register (for an election expected to take place in April 1923).
Macardle treats, in some detail, the debate on the constitution which carries
on for some days. |
Macardle (1999),
pgs 788-799; Curran J M (1980), pg 260 |
|
Sep-18 |
A 17-year old girl,
Margaret Collins, dies after picking up a bomb in a field near her home at
Grangemore, Brannockstown, Co Kildare.
It is thought that she had come across an anti-Treaty arms dump. |
Durney (2011), pg
96 |
|
Sep-19 |
A large sweep by
pro-Treaty forces is made in North Sligo. Nine anti-Treaty men killed
while trying to escape across Ben Bulben. Six of these were killed in
suspicious circumstances – these were Brigadier-General Seamus Devins, T.D.,
3rd Western Divisional Adjutant; Brian Mac Neill (son of Eoin Mac
Neill); Lieutenant Paddy Carroll; Captain Harry Benson and Volunteers Joseph
Banks and Tommy Langan. It is claimed that they were killed after
surrender. There were no further major confrontations in North
Sligo. (Macardle says that it was on the 20th – Dorney also
says 20th but Hopkinson and Farry say 19th. Farry does not mention any others killed
other than six mentioned above) |
Hopkinson (1988),
pg 215; Macardle (1999), pg 801; Dorney (2017), pg 138; Farry (2012), pg102 |
|
Sep-19 |
Anti-Treaty
volunteer 19-year old Bertie Murphy had been captured a few days before by
pro-Treaty forces near Castleisland, Co. Kerry. He was taken prisoner
to the Great Southern Hotel, Killarney where he was killed in the aftermath
of an ambush by anti-Treaty forces at Brennan’s Glen in which two pro-Treaty
soldiers were killed and several wounded. The pro-Treaty forces said
that he was killed in the ambush at Brennan’s Glen. Horgan says that
Murphy was killed by Dave Neligan at the entrance to the hotel. Horgan, Doyle and Dorney says that he was
killed on the 27th. As the Brennan’s Glen ambush took place on the
27th – see below – this seems the more likely date. Doyle says
that Murphy was in custody at the time of the Brennan’s Glen ambush and
tortured to reveal information on who would have carried out the ambush as he
was from that area. When he would not
reveal any information, he was shot. |
Macardle (1998),
pgs 9-10; Dorney (2017), pg 131; Horgan (2018), pgs 193 & 271; Doyle (2008), pgs 186-187 |
|
Sep-19 |
Anti-Treaty forces
attack three pro-Treaty posts in Killorglin, Co. Kerry. This was a ‘ranging’ exercise to test the
strength of the defences of the three posts in preparation for a larger
attack on the 27th September – see below. |
Doyle (2008), pg
178 |
|
Sep-19 |
A 1st
Northern Division report estimates that there any between 300 and 400
anti-Treaty volunteers in Co. Donegal while there are some 2,700 pro-Treaty
men. |
Ozseker (2019), pg
166 |
|
Sep-20 |
The armoured car The
Ballinalee is recaptured by pro-Treaty forces at Ballintrillick/Glencar,
Co. Sligo. Anti-Treaty Captain Henry Benson and Volunteer Joseph Banks
are killed in this engagement. |
O'Farrell P (1997),
pg 142 & 143 |
|
Sep-20 |
A 60-cart supply convoy
escorted by pro-Treaty forces in Kerry is attacked a number of times by
anti-Treaty men resulting in the wounding of two pro-Treaty soldiers. Around this time a pro-Treaty army driver
called Magee died of wounds received in an earlier ambush. |
Doyle (2008), pg
176 |
|
Sep-20? |
A taxi-driver,
Thomas Lyons, is shot dead in his taxi at Ballycarthy Bridge, two miles from
Tralee, Co. Kerry. It is assumed that
an anti-Treaty Volunteer lying in ambush mistook Lyons’s taxi driver uniform
for the uniform of a pro-Treaty officer uniform. |
Doyle (2008), pg
177 |
|
Sep-21 |
Constitution Bill
passes its second reading in the Dáil by 47 to 16. |
Curran J M (1980),
pg 261 |
|
Sep-21 |
Writing to Richard
Mulcahy, Seamus Woods (O/C 3rd Northern Division IRA and now in
Pro-Treaty army) says he has detected a marked change in the attitude of some
GHQ staff since the death of Collins and that Dublin was revising its policy
and deciding that it could no longer fight the British authorities in the Six
Counties. McDermott says that
demoralisation was setting in with the northern pro-Treaty IRA with some
drift towards of the anti-Treaty IRA. (Most northern IRA men had gone
pro-Treaty.) Woods writes a longer angrier memo to Mulcahy on 29th
September. |
Gallagher (2003),
pg 41; McDermott (2001), pg 274; Phoenix
(1994), pgs 252-253 |
|
Sep-21 |
An attack on a
pro-Treaty army lorry on Eden Quay in Dublin results in the death of one
soldier, James Kennedy, and the wounding of three other soldiers and three
civilians. Roadblocks and checkpoints had become a normal feature of the city
by this stage. |
Dorney (2017), pg
153 |
|
Sep-22 |
A Protestant, James
Spratt (50), was shot dead by police in Westmoreland St in Belfast as he was
breaking curfew trying to go to feed his donkey. |
Parkinson (2004),
pg 306 |
|
Sep-22 |
A pro-Treaty
soldier is killed in a grenade attack in Eden Quay in Dublin. An anti-Treaty volunteer, Michael Neville
(who works in Mooney’s pub on Eden Quay) is arrested – he is taken to
Killester in the north side of Dublin and shot four times. Neville is from Lisdoonvarna, Co. Clare. |
Dorney (2017), pgs
181-182; Ó Ruairc (2009), pg 310 |
|
Sep-22 |
Pro-Treaty Colonel
Michael Hogan was driving an army medic, John Lyden, and two civilians to
Blennerville, Co. Kerry when they encounter some anti-Treaty men. In the ensuing shoot-out, Lyden is killed. |
Doyle (2008), pgs
178-179 |
|
Sep-23 |
Pro-Treaty Captain
Matthew McGrath is killed in an accident in Listowel, Co. Kerry. The following day pro-Treaty Private J.
Looney also dies in an accident in Killorglin. |
|
|
Sep-24 |
Ernie O’Malley
writes to Liam Lynch saying that “We consider it imperative that some sort of
Government, whether a Provisional or a Republican or a military one, should
be inaugurated at once”. |
Hopkinson (1988),
pg 186 |
|
Sep-24 |
An anti-Treaty ASU
attacking a pro-Treaty post in Glendalough, Co. Wicklow is surprised when a
50-strong pro-Treaty army patrol arrives on the scene but they manage to
escape with three of their number captured and two wounded. |
Dorney (2017), pg
163 |
|
Sep-24 |
An anti-Treaty
prisoner in Cork Jail, Patrick Mangan from Lismore, Co. Waterford who was
taking part in a protest is killed when the prison guards open fire. |
McCarthy (2015), pg
111 |
|
Sep-24 |
A pastoral letter
from the RC Bishop of Cork, Dr Cohalan, saying that “the killing of National
soldiers is murder” was read in all churches in the diocese. |
Macardle (1999), pg
801 |
|
Sep-25 |
According to
O’Donoghue, the available anti-Treaty members of the Dáil meet secretly in
Dublin and constitute themselves as a Republican Government. They
appoint de Valera as President and also a 12-member Council of State. However, according to a number of
historians, this meeting took place on October 25th which is more
likely. See October 16th
and 17th for meeting of anti-Treaty Executive which gave its
support to the setting up of an anti-Treaty Council of State and October 25th
for more detail of who was on this Council.
See also December 8th for O’Higgins view of de Valera and
his Council of State. |
O’Donoghue (1986),
pg 277 |
|
Sep-26 |
The Freeman’s Journal announces changes in
the pro-Treaty army command saying that Kerry was to become a separate
command under General Denny Galvin from Knocknagoshel, Co. Kerry. Previously, it was under the command of
General W. R. E. Murphy. Doyle says
that Murphy’s command was nominal and that the real command lay with
Brigadier Paddy O’Daly, O/C of the Dublin Guard based in Tralee. Doyle also
says that, even after command passed to General Galvin (formally on the 4th
October), in reality O’Daly stayed in charge.
Formally, O’Daly takes over as GOC Kerry Command in early January
1923. |
Doyle
(2008), pg 188 & 240-241 |
|
Sep-27 |
Dáil passes (by 48
votes to 18) a Public Safety Bill
setting up military courts with the power to sentence prisoners to death for
offenses such as the possession of arms and the aiding and abetting of
attacks on government forces. An amnesty was
given until the 15th October if anyone surrendered and gave up
their arms. Labour oppose and Kevin O’Higgins made a strong speech condemning
Erskine Childers describing him as “the able Englishman who is leading those
who are opposed to this Government” (Macardle says measure was passed by 47
votes to 15 and Curran agrees. Dorney says that it was passed by 41 votes to
18.) |
O’Donoghue (1986),
pg 273; Hopkinson (1988), pg 181; Macardle (1999), pgs 802-804; Curran J M
(1980), pg 256; Dorney (2007), pgs 207-209 |
|
Sep-27 |
Anti-Treaty forces
carry out an abortive attack on Killorglin, Co. Kerry. About 500 are in
the attacking party led by Sean Hyde, John Joe Rice and Humphrey Murphy but,
in 30 hours of intense fighting, they fail to dislodge sixty Clare men
defenders and they retreat when a pro-Treaty relieving column arrives from
Tralee. |
Hopkinson (1988),
pg 206-207; Macardle (1998), pgs 10-11; Horgan (2018), pgs 101-102 & 151-152; Doyle (2008), pgs 181- |
|
Sep-27 |
A three-vehicle
convoy of pro-Treaty soldiers is ambushed at Brennan’s Glen, near Farrenfore
in Co. Kerry, resulting in the death of two soldiers, Daniel Hannon and John
Martin. |
Doyle
(2008), pg 186 |
|
Sep-27 |
Pro-Treaty Sergeant
Major Thomas Murray accidently shot in Lismore Castle, Co. Waterford. A few days later, Private Myles Broughton
is also killed in an accident in Lismore Castle. |
McCarthy (2015),
pgs 112-113 |
|
Sep-27 |
First group of
Civic Guards arrive in Kilkenny City and take over the old RIC barracks in
Parliament Street. |
Walsh (2018), pg
202 |
|
Sep-28 |
Twenty-five Civic
Guards (3 sergeants and 22 guards) take over the RIC barracks in Naas, Co.
Kildare. |
Durney (2011), pg
56 |
|
Sep-28 |
A 14-man
anti-Treaty column surrender at Doon, outside Tralee, Co. Kerry handing over
seven rifles and several revolvers. |
Doyle (2008), pg
175 |
|
Sep-29 |
Pro-Treaty patrol
ambushed by anti-Treaty ASU under Paddy Curran at Ballinamult, Co. Waterford
with three pro-Treaty soldiers wounded. |
McCarthy (2015), pg
112 |
|
Sep-30 |
A long and angry
memo from Seamus Woods, Northern pro-Treaty leader, to Mulcahy complaining
about southern government shift in policy to Northern Ireland and seeks
answers to specific questions. |
Phoenix (1994), pgs 252-253 |
|
Sep-30 |
Mayor of Derry
summons a conference of Nationalist and Sinn Féin members of the Northern
Parliament with a view to establishing a united platform of northern
nationalists. It is welcomed by Devlin but gets a hostile reaction from
pro-Treaty Sinn Féin and border nationalists. This is part of campaign of Devlinites to find a way, in the words of
one of his supporters to “take the leadership of the northern nationalists,
and find the path clear to his entry into the Belfast Parliament”. The
two surviving pro-Treaty Sinn Féin northern MPs (Sean Milroy and Eoin Mac
Neill) refuse to take part. |
Phoenix (1994), pgs 254- 255 |
|
Sep-30 |
Phillip Cosgrave,
uncle of President W. T. Cosgrave, is shot dead by anti-Treaty volunteers in
his pub in James Street in Dublin |
Dorney (2017), pg
183 |
|
Sep-30 |
Sixteen year old
William Purcell, who had enlisted in the pro-Treaty army a few months earlier
is accidently killed by a colleague in Templemore Barracks in Co. Tipperary. |
Walsh (2018), pg
202 |
|
Sep-30 & Oct-01 |
The last serious
set of violent incidents in Belfast on this day and the following day in
Westmoreland St in Belfast. |
Parkinson (2004),
pg 306 |