Media ignores tribute to the Boys of Kilmichael

THE 84th anniversary of the Kilmichael ambush, one of the major engagements of the War of Independence, was commemorated on Sunday, November 28, in the presence of 1,000 people at the ambush site.

This ambush, in the aftermath of Bloody Sunday, November 21, 1920, in Dublin, delivered an important message to the British government that the IRA were capable of defending the writ of Dáil Éireann.

The significance of the ambush can best be judged by the efforts of pro-British propagandists over the eight decades since to defame Gen Tom Barry and his West Cork flying column.