Rising Out: Seán Connolly of Longford (1890-1921)This previously unpublished manuscript tells the story of Brigadier Sean Connolly, O/C of the Longford Brigade, who was fatally wounded in action on 11 March 1921 at Selton Hill, near Mohill (Co. Leitrim), by British forces during the War of Independence. Comdt-General Ernie O'Malley came across the story in interviews with Tan and Civil War survivors in the early 1950s. The account makes Connolly come alive as a person - his schooling, love of music, education, farming family background and devotion to the nationalist cause. O'Malley, who had actually organised the Irish Volunteers in parts of the area and had known many of the local leaders, gives the social setting for the IRA activities and explains the subtle roles of the IRA General HQ, of the Catholic Church and the Anglo-Irish gentry. Most memorably, it describes in detail what the fighting men actually did locally and what a local leader had to do in order to organise his men. |
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INTRODUCTION by Cormac K H OMalley | 15 |
Ballymahon | 70 |
Castlenode | 82 |
Copyright | |
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action active ambush ammunition arms arrested Arvagh attack Auxiliaries Ballinalee Ballinameen Ballinamore Ballinamuck Ballymahon Battalion Beirne bombs Boyle British burned captured Carrick Carrick-on-Shannon cart box Commandant Connolly's conscription Cork Dáil Éireann darkness District Inspector Doherty Drumlish Dublin Castle Elphin Ernie O'Malley explosives fight fire Flying Column Frank Davis garrison Geordie Granard grenades guard guardroom heard Ireland Irish Parliamentary Party Irish Volunteers jail John Joe O'Reilly joined the Irish knew lads Leitrim Limerick Longford Brigade lorry McGuinness Michael Baxter Michael Collins mines Mohill move movement Mullooly night North Roscommon Brigade officers organisation Paddy patrol police prisoners raids reprisals Republican RIC barracks rifles road Royal Irish Constabulary Seamus Seán Connolly Seán MacEoin Selton Hill sent sergeant shot Sinn Féin soldiers South Leitrim Brigade Strokestown surrender Sweeney talk Tans town troops Truce UCDA waited wall weapons wounded Wrynn