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Crossbarry

  • 12-09-2010 12:51pm
    #1
    deise go deo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,677 ✭✭✭


    Often called the Largest engagment of the War or independance.

    I have read Tom Barrys Account, however I would like to know how accurate it is. His account is contradicted by several other sources. In a Book called Ambushes and armour, the auther says the figures for Enemy dead claimed by Barry to be Exagerated.

    Also Major Percival in a military lecture claimed they captured a cart load of ammunition left behind, but Barry denied there ever was any cart with ammunition on it.

    Dose anyone have a reletivaly clear picture of what happened at Crossbarry that day?


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  • #2
    timespast
    Closed Accounts Posts: 107 ✭✭timespast


    deise go deo wrote: »
    Often called the Largest engagment of the War or independance.

    I have read Tom Barrys Account, however I would like to know how accurate it is. His account is contradicted by several other sources. In a Book called Ambushes and armour, the auther says the figures for Enemy dead claimed by Barry to be Exagerated.

    Also Major Percival in a military lecture claimed they captured a cart load of ammunition left behind, but Barry denied there ever was any cart with ammunition on it.

    Dose anyone have a reletivaly clear picture of what happened at Crossbarry that day?

    Are you in Co Cork?

    The ref library has some interesting stuff on Crossbarry..... who was the author that states the figures given are exaggerated?

    There are papers from interviews of Old IRA men from mid Cork.......Id consider Crossbarry to be Mid Cork but it is on the way to Bandon which I guess is the gateway to West Cork.

    Well worth a visit to the ref. library if you live here.


  • #3
    Denerick
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,488 ✭✭✭Denerick


    All I know is what Tom Barry recalled in his memoir. Truth or not, it was a remarkable achievement and the closest approximation to a proper 'battlefield experience' the IRA engaged in during the war.


  • #4
    deise go deo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,677 ✭✭✭deise go deo


    timespast wrote: »
    Are you in Co Cork?

    No, Im from Waterford, In collage in Limerick.
    The ref library has some interesting stuff on Crossbarry..... who was the author that states the figures given are exaggerated?

    The book was called Ambushes and armour, Not sure of the Authors name.

    There are papers from interviews of Old IRA men from mid Cork.......Id consider Crossbarry to be Mid Cork but it is on the way to Bandon which I guess is the gateway to West Cork.

    Well worth a visit to the ref. library if you live here.

    There wasent a mid cork Brigade was there?

    I think the figures proposed in the book come from the internal British reports and Inquest after the Engagement.


  • #5
    timespast
    Closed Accounts Posts: 107 ✭✭timespast


    deise go deo wrote: »
    No, Im from Waterford, In collage in Limerick.



    The book was called Ambushes and armour, Not sure of the Authors name.




    There wasent a mid cork Brigade was there?

    I think the figures proposed in the book come from the internal British reports and Inquest after the Engagement.

    I'll send you a pm.


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