Ballymacandy - by Owen O'Shea (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"On 1 June 1921, at the height of Ireland's War of Independence, a cycling unit of members of the RIC and Black and Tans was ambushed by the IRA at Ballymacandy, between Milltown and Castlemaine in County Kerry. During an hour of fighting, five policemen were killed, among them a father of nine who lived in the same village as many of the men who attacked him. The dramatic story is told from the perspectives of the IRA gunmen, the local Cumann na mBan, the terrified villagers, the priest who prayed into the ears of the dying, the IRA's informer within the police, and the doctor accused of neglecting a dying man. Drawing on first-hand accounts, private diaries and previously unpublished official records, Ballymacandy illuminates one of the bloodiest and most significant engagements of the Anglo-Irish War in Kerry and the wider revolutionary period in Ireland."--Publisher description.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>On 1 June 1921, at the height of Ireland's War of Independence, a cycling patrol of members of the RIC was ambushed by members of the IRA at Ballymacandy, between Milltown and Castlemaine in County Kerry. After an hour of fighting, four police officers lay dead and another died a day later, among them a father of nine children.</p><p>The group of IRA assailants included some of the most high-profile figures in Ireland's 'Tan War, ' men like Dan Keating, Jack Flynn, Dan Mulvihill, Billy Myles, and Johnny Connor, but also lesser-known figures, including members of the local Cumann na mBan. Their actions were condemned from the pulpit and an official enquiry tried to discredit the local doctor who tended to the dying men.</p><p>This book comes on the centenary of an ambush that continues to resonate in its community and in a county in which the battle with Crown forces was more virulent and violent than most. Drawing on newly published witness statements and previously unpublished official records, <i>Ballymacandy</i> details what happened to the five men who died and those who led the attack against them, and sets the incident against the backdrop of the wider revolutionary struggle in the county.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>Owen O'Shea</b>, from Milltown, Co. Kerry, is a historian and author of several books on history and politics in his native county. A former press adviser to the Labour Party and a journalist for many years, he is the author of <i>Heirs to the Kingdom: Kerry's Political Dynasties</i> (2011) and co-author of<i> A Century of Politics in the Kingdom: A County Kerry Compendium</i> (Merrion Press, 2018). He was co-editor of a history of Kerry and the Easter Rising in 2016. He currently works as Media, Communications and Customer Relations Officer with Kerry County Council and is an Irish Research Council-funded PhD student at University College Dublin, researching electioneering and politics in Kerry in the decade after the Civil War.</p>
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