Tipperary Studies

 

 

1st Tipperary Brigade (North)

 

Patrick Cash, Templederry, Vice-Commandant, 5th Battalion, (W.S 1372)

Sean Gaynor, Nenagh, Adjutant (later Commandant); Adjutant, 3rd Southern Division, (W.S 1389), see THJ 1993/94

Martin Grace, Nenagh, Battalion Quartermaster, 3rd Battalion, (W.S 1463)

John Hackett, Toomevara, Intelligence Officer, 2nd Battalion, (W.S 1388)

James Hewitt, Birdhill, Quartermaster, 6th Battalion, (W.S 1465)

William Hanly, Kilcommon, Adjutant, Fifth Battalion, (W.S 1368)

Liam Hoolan, Nenagh, Vice Commandant (later Commandant) (W.S 1553), ASU

Frank McGrath, Nenagh, Commandant, (W.S 1558)

William Meagher, Toomevara, Vice-Commandant,  No.2 Battalion, (W.S 1391), ASU

Martin Needham, Lorrha, Vice-Commandant, (W.S 1323)

Edward O’Leary, Nenagh, Adjutant, Commander of the Brigade Flying Column, (W.S 1459), ASU

Edward John Ryan, Nenagh, Lieutenant ‘A’ Company, 1st Battalion (W.S 1392), ASU

Con Spain, Nenagh, Commandant, 1st Battalion, (W.S 1464), ASU

 

Two books in particular complement the above sources:  E. Gaynor, Memoirs of a Tipperary Family The Gaynors of Tyone 1887-2000 (Dublin, [2004]) and P. Haicéad,

In Bloody Protest North Tipperary’s IRA roll of honour 1916-26 (Nenagh, 1996).

Parish histories may be of interest, especially if the information is sourced.  Examples include: S.Ó Riain, Dunkerrin: a parish in Ely O Carroll (Dunkerrin, 1988),  D. Grace, Portrait of a Parish Monsea & Killodiernan Co Tipperary (Relay Nenagh, 1996) and R. Williams, In and Out of School-  In the home of the MacDonaghs (Nenagh, 1999).  Finding Tipperary has a comprehensive listing of this kind of local material, all available in Tipperary Studies.

 

Below is a listing of just some of the possible topics relating to this period in North Tipperary dealt with in the witness statements:

• The Volunteers in Templederry
• The Volunteers in Kilcommon
• The Volunteers in Nenagh up to the War of Indepenence
• The Volunteers in Nenagh during the War of Independence
• The 1st Brigade Flying Column
• The Modreeny Ambush
• The Volunteers in Toomevara
• The attack on Borrisokane Barracks
• The Volunteers in Lorrha

 

A student might find it more manageable to focus attention on a very specific incident, such as the killing of two members of the RIC as they left the church in Toomevara in March 1920.  The incident could be looked at by asking a few very specific questions, such as:

• Why were these men targets?
• What were the logistics of the attack?
• What were the immediate consequences?
• What impact did the attack have?
• What did the attack illustrate about IRA tactics?
• How did the attack fit into the pattern of violence within the Brigade area?
• What, if anything, is the popular memory of the event?

 

Simply telling the story of what happened seems inadequate.

 

 

last updated on: Tuesday, 03-Aug-2010 15:37:59 IST