To The People of Ireland. War News.

4to. pp. 4. News-sheet, old horizontal crease otherwise Very Good. An unrecorded and anonymous news sheet issued by the Irish Free State [or on its behalf] countering the propaganda of the Republican rebels in the bitter Irish Civil War of 1922-3. The several events referred to in the sheet allow us to place the publication date at sometime in the summer of 1922, after the shelling of the Four Courts in Dublin and its subsequent destruction, along with many valuable documents in June 1922. Mention is also made of the arrests and subsequent release of the IRA chief of staff Liam Lynch supposedly giving his word that he would not take part in further fighting. [He subsequently died in an ambush in 1923] Basically this is an appeal to Irish men and women throughout the country who travel, to spread the word that the Provisional Government was in control and not to believe the efforts of the Irregulars to convince them that they were succeeding in their aim to control the government, repudiate the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921 and force conflict with the British Government in order to unite the whole of Ireland. “They had been told that the Irregulars dominated the City and Country, and each area in which Irregulars operate is told that large bodies of reinforcements are marching to their aid and that the whole country is behind Mr. Rory O’Conner.” In fact O’Connor had been apprehended at the Four Courts and was executed by firing squad in December 1922. The execution warrant was signed by Kevin O’Higgins; O’Connor had been best man at his wedding, a symbol of the bitterness and division of the Irish Civil War.

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Publisher: [1922]

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

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