Cork and Kerry treated as 'hostile foreign country', civil war conference hears 

Civilian women suffered a lot, including harassment, being jailed and sexual violence

The Ballyseedy monument, a memorial to the Republican insurgents executed by Free State forces at Ballyseedy, located on the Tralee to Cork Road. Picture: Domnick Walsh

The civil war in Cork and Kerry was different with the Dublin brigades of the National Army treating the region as a "hostile, foreign country", a major conference on the centenary of the Civil War heard.

While in Cork, Dublin guards were transferred for carrying out reprisal killings, this was not the case in Kerry.  Reprisals by the Dublin brigade in the National Army against 'irregulars' actually increased, the conference at Siamsa Tire in Tralee heard.