It’s time to put names on ambush story sources

IN his letter (Irish Examiner, May 6), Jack Lane drew attention to John Regan’s review of my book, Tom Barry: IRA Freedom Fighter (Mercier Press) where the reviewer stated that Peter Hart was “fortunate in finding survivors of the ambush alive and lucid nearly 70 years after the event… one of whom, he notes, visited the site with him”.

It’s time to put names on ambush story sources

Logistically, this creates a problem that only Mr Hart can solve. He says he interviewed two of the Kilmichael participants — ‘Rifleman AA’ in 1988 and ‘Scout AF’ in 1989.

But according to biographical details, all scouts were dead by 1967, all dispatch scouts by 1971, and all after-ambush helpers and riflemen by November 19, 1989.

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