2/2 This was the area where #JamesConnolly recruited the Citizen Army; many of the desperately poor people from this triangle made the core of the 1916 Rising; afterwards, they stood too ready to join the #WarOfIndependence, but the #IrishVolunteers continually told them "We'll ask you when we need you" - they were excluded in the Free State and are now excluded in the Republic

Would You Have Been a #Patriot or a #Loyalist?
https://www.artofmanliness.com/character/knowledge-of-men/podcast-908-would-you-have-been-a-patriot-or-a-loyalist/?mc_cid=c3b0e31528&mc_eid=ebcac734cc

When #Americans think back to the #WarofIndependence, most are apt to feel that, had they lived back then, they would have been #Patriots for sure. In retrospect, the decision to rebel and get out from under the thumb of #Britishrule seems inevitable.

The most brutal thing about the Irish Free State's refusal of a proper pension to Thomas Bryan's widow is that they did not properly investigate her claim that he had been at the terrible fight around Clanwilliam House, Mount Street, in the 1916 Easter Rising, and refused her a 1916-connected pension. Here he is listed in the Active Service Unit involved in that fight https://www.militaryarchives.ie/collections/online-collections/bureau-of-military-history-1913-1921/reels/bmh/BMH.WS0127.pdf#page=14 #ThomasBryan #Executed1921 #WarOfIndependence #1916Rising

@valoisdubins The British took a deliberate decision to try and brutalise the Irish into submission, much like the Russians are trying in Ukraine. It had the opposite effect in Ireland of stiffening the Irish opposition. The same is clearly happening in Ukraine.

#Ireland #WarOfIndependence #Cork #Dublin

Many civilians reported being beaten, shot at, and robbed by British forces. Firefighters testified that British forces hindered their attempts to tackle the blazes by intimidation, cutting their hoses and shooting at them. 2/2

#IrishHistory #WarOfIndependence #Cork

The burning of Cork by British forces took place on the night of 11–12 December 1920. It followed an IRA ambush of a British Auxiliary patrol. In retaliation, the Auxiliaries, Black and Tans and British soldiers burned homes near the ambush site, before looting and burning buildings in the centre of Cork. 1/2

#IrishHistory #WarOfIndependence #Cork

The cover of my next book, The Woman on the Bridge, a novel set during the Irish War of Independence and the Irish Civl War #warofindependence #civilwar #ireland #historicalfiction

@Nocta 2/2 After the #WarOfIndependence, the government that was legitimately voted in turned Ireland into the #fascist #FreeState: during the #CivilWar they executed over 80 former comrades and extrajudicially murdered others, including kids of 16. #Women were suppressed, #literature was censored, #CatholicIreland was a nightmare for liberals

“They crossed the Delaware [river] in safety” from “The American Boy’s Life of Washington” (1870). No, i don’t know why girls couldn’t read it. They were better off not reading it in some ways, as it casts the civil war/uprising that led to American independence as Americans vs British, forgetting even Washington himself was English.

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Hyde-LifeOfWashington/pages/110-They-Crossed-the-Delaware-in-Safety/

#fobo #fromoldbooks #WarOfIndependence #America #boat #escape #soldiers #snowing #snowstorm

@mandypg I don't know about specialist knowledge, but I've researched my own Loyalist ancestor, who was an artificer and was for a while stationed at Carleton Island with Leek's Independent Company. Most of the records I've used came from the UK National Archives, but there is a lot of Loyalist stuff in Library and Archives Canada too. #LoyalistAncestor #WarOfIndependence #Genealogy #CarletonIsland

If you have specialist knowledge in or access to sources of information I have not yet tapped, be it in military records around Carleton Island or related to British artificers in the early 1790s, Irish records, Quebec records that might yield new information, I would LOVE to hear from you.

Thanks for reading if you got this far!

#Genealogy #FamilyTree #LoyalistAncestor #Quebec #Ontario #WarOfIndependence #IrishAncestry #McLean #EarlyBritishCanada #CarletonIsland #GenealogicalBrickWall

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I have always been a keen genealogist and had success in tracing the family history of my maternal grandmother, born in USA but from a long line of Québécois – thanks to the meticulous record keeping of the notaries of Quebec and the Quebec Catholic Church.

#Genealogy #FamilyTree #LoyalistAncestor #Quebec #Ontario #WarOfIndependence #IrishAncestry #McLean #EarlyBritishCanada
#CarletonIsland #GenealogicalBrickWall

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