Redressing the imbalance as Battle of Tralee brought to book

Following the release of a book on Kerry’s Republican dead last week, Ryle Dwyer relates how events on Dublin’s Vico Road in 1920 distorted The Kingdom’s history

Kerry’s entire record during the Black and Tan War consisted of the shooting of an unfortunate British soldier on the morning of the truce, General Eoin O’Duffy declared in 1933. Of course, this was a blatant distortion.

Tim Horgan’s Dying for the Cause: Kerry’s Republican Dead, published last week, examines the deaths of more than 140 Kerry Republicans in the struggle for Irish independence. The book is not a history of the struggle so much as a look at the lives of those who made the ultimate sacrifice.