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Unidentified IRA soldierĀ 

 

Unidentified IRA soldier  (Firville, Coolehane, near Macroom)

Date of incident: 7 Sept. 1922

Sources: Cork Examiner, 23 Sept. 1922; Keane, Cork's Revolutionary Dead, 371.

 

Note: It was reported that a decomposed body of a young man killed about two weeks earlier had been found. He was suspected locally of being a member of the anti-Treaty IRA who had been fatally wounded in recent fighting around Macroom. 

The Irish Revolution Project

Scoil na Staire /Tíreolaíocht

University College Cork, Cork,

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