The Real Chief - Liam Lynch

by Meda Ryan

  Bibliography

  Primary Sources

  University College, Dublin, Archives

  Richard Mulcahy Papers

  Ernie O’Malley Papers and Notebooks

  National Library of Ireland

  J. J. O’Connell Papers

  Frank Gallagher Papers

  Luby Papers

  Joseph McGarrity Papers

  Public Records Office, Dublin

  Clonmel Coroners’ Report

  Private Papers

  The Liam Lynch Family Papers and letters, held by Biddy O’Callaghan

  Ned Murphy Private Papers

  Paddy O’Brien collection

  Bill McKenna correspondence.

  Liam Deasy Private Papers

  Dan (Sando) O’Donovan documents

  Oral Testimony

  Interviews with a number of people as listed in the acknowledgments and notes. Many of these people were directly involved in the Movement and events of the time.

  Newspapers, Periodicals & Journals.

  Irish Times; Irish Independent; Irish Press; Freeman’s Journal; Cork Exami­ner; Cork Co. Eagle; Cork Weekly Examiner; Evening Echo; Cork Constitution; Evening Herald; The Times; Sunday Independent; Sunday Press; The Evening Press; Melbourne Irish News; Clare Champion; Limerick Leader; Southern Star; The Kerryman; The Clonmel Nationalist; The Clonmel Chronicle; An tÓglach; An Phoblacht; Capuchin Annual; Clare Champion; Kerryman Supplements; Southern Star Supplements; Irish News; Catholic Bulletin.

  Secondary Sources

  Andrews, C. S. Dublin Made Me, The Mercier Press, Dublin & Cork, 1979.

  Barry, Tom, Guerilla Days in Ireland: Dublin 1949.

  — The Reality of the Anglo-Irish War 1920–21 in West Cork: Refutations, Corrections and Comments on Liam Deasy’s Towards Irish Free, Tralee 1974.

  Beaslaí, Piaras, Michael Collins and the Making of a New Ireland, Vols 1 & 2, Dublin 1926.

  Bell, J. Bowyer, The Secret Army, London 1970.

  Bennett, George, The History of Bandon, Cork 1869.

  Bowman, John, De Valera and the Ulster Question 1917–73, Oxford 1982.

  Bennett, Richard, The Black and Tans, London 1970.

  Breen, Dan, My Fight for Irish Freedom, Tralee 1964.

  Brennan, Robert, Allegiance, London 1950.

  Butler, Ewan, Barry’s Flying Column, London 1972.

  Carroll, Joseph T., Ireland in the War Years, 1939–1945, London 1975.

  Chavasse, Moirin, Terence MacSwiney, London 1961.

  Comerford, Máire, The First Dáil, Dublin 1969.

  Coogan, Tim Pat, Ireland since the Rising, London 1966.

  — The I.R.A, London, 1971.

  Cronin, Seán, The McGarrity Papers, Tralee, 1972.

  Crowley, Flor, In West Cork Long Ago, Dublin & Cork, 1979.

  Crozier, Brigadier General F.P. , Ireland Forever, London 1932.

  Dalton, Charles, With the Dublin Brigade (1917–1921), London 1929.

  Deasy, Liam, Towards Ireland Free, Dublin & Cork 1973.

  — Brother Against Brother, Dublin & Cork 1982.

  Dwyer, T. Ryle, Éamon de Valera, Dublin 1980.

  — Michael Collins and The Treaty: His Difference with De Valera, Cork 1981.

  Farrell, Brian, The Founding of Dáil Eireann: Parliament and Nation-Building, Dublin 1971.

  — The Creation of the First Dáil, Dublin 1974.

  Figgis, Darrell, Recollections of the Irish War, London 1927.

  Fitzpatrick, David, Politics and Irish Life, 1913–21: Provincial Experience of War and Revolution, Dublin 1977.

  Forester, Margery, Michael Collins: The Lost Leader, London 1971.

  Gaughan, J. A., Austin Stack: Portrait of a Separatist, Dublin 1977.

  Greaves, C. D., Liam Mellows and the Irish Revolution, London 1971.

  Hogan, David, Four Glorious Years, Dublin 1953.

  Kee, Robert, Ourselves Alone: The Green Flag, Vol 3. London 1973.

  Keyes, Kathleen, There is a Bridge at Bandon, Cork & Dublin 1972.

  Langford, Siobhán, The Hope and the Sadness, Cork 1980.

  Lee, Joseph & Ó Tuathaigh, Gearóid, The Age of de Valera, Dublin 1982.

  Limerick’s Fighting Story, Tralee 1949.

  Longford, Earl of, and O’Neill, Thomas P., Éamon De Valera, Dublin 1970.

  Lyons, F. S., Ireland Since the Famine, London 1973.

  Macardle, Dorothy, The Irish Republic, London 1968.

  — Tragedies of Kerry, Dublin 1924.

  Mac Eoin, Uinseann, Survivors, Dublin 1980.

  Macready, General Sir Nevil, Annals of an Active Life, 2 vols. London 1924.

  Manning, Maurice, The Blueshirts, Dublin 1970.

  McCann, John, War by the Irish, Tralee, 1946.

  Murphy, John A., Ireland in the Twentieth Century, Dublin 1975.

  Neeson, Eoin, The Civil War in Ireland, 1921–1923, Cork & Dublin 1966.

  Neligan. Dave, The Spy in the Castle, London 1968.

  Ó Broin, Leon, Revolutionary Underground: The Story of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, 1858–1924, Dublin 1976.

  O’Callaghan, Seán, Execution, London 1974.

  O’Connor, Batt, With Michael Collins in the Fight for Irish Independence, Lon­don 1929.

  O’Connor, Ulick, A Terrible Beauty is Born, London 1975.

  — Oliver St. John Gogarty, London 1981.

  O’Donoghue, Denis, J., A History of Bandon, Cork 1970.

  O’Donoghue, Florence, No Other Law, Dublin 1956.

  — Thomas MacCurtain, Tralee, 1971.

  O’Donovan Rossa, Diarmuid, Rossa’s Recollections, Shannon 1972.

  Ó Dúlaing, Donncha, Voices of Ireland, Dublin 1984.

  O’Malley, Ernie, On Another Man’s Wound, Tralee 1979.

  — The Singing Flame, Tralee, 1979.

  O’Farrell, Patrick, Ireland’s English Question, London 1971.

  O’ Hegarty, P. S. The Victory of Sinn Féin, Dublin 1924.

  Ó Suilleabháin, Micheál, Where Mountainy Men Have Sown, Tralee 1965.

  Parkenham, Frank, Peace by Ordeal, London 1972.

  Rebel Cork’s Fighting Story, Tralee 1963.

  Ryan, Desmond, Seán Treacy and the Third Tipperary Brigade, IRA, Tralee 1945.

  Ryan, Meda, The Tom Barry Story, Dublin & Cork 1982.

  Taylor, Rex, Michael Collins – The Big Fellow, London 1961.

  Townshend, Charles, The British Campaign in Ireland 1919–1921, Oxford 1975.

  Walsh, Joe, The Story of Dick Barrett, Cork 1972.

  — The Story of Liam Lynch.

  Walsh, J. J. Recollections of a Rebel, Tralee 1949.

  Younger, Calton, Ireland’s Civil War, London 1972.

  Who Was Who, 1961–1970, London 1979.

  With the IRA in the Fight for Freedom: 1919 To the Truce, Tralee 1955.

  Acknowledgments

  Without the private letters and documents given to me by Biddy O’Callaghan and her husband Thomas this book would be very different, so I am deeply indebted to them for trusting me with this material. I am also indebted to Moss O’Connor and Diar­muid Mullins who were not alone responsible for putting me in touch with Biddy O’Callaghan but in also supplying me with information which broadened the scope of my research; I am grateful to Dermot Walsh, Nick Condon and Liam Irwin who were responsible for initiating the chain of these events.

  A sincere word of gratitude is due to the many who went out of their way to help in my research, people like Noel Crowley, Mary Moroney and Marie Browne of the Ennis County Library, also Thomas McCarthy, Cork City Library, the Library staff at Mary Immaculate College, Limerick; the continuous assistance of the staff in the Archives Department of University College, Dub­lin, and that department for the use of material, also the Mul­­­cahy Trust for access to, and permission to quote from, the papers of Richard Mulcahy; Raymond Smith of Independent News­­papers for his helpful advice and assistance in research; the Library staff of the Irish Independent Newspapers, the Irish Press, the Irish Times
, the Cork Examiner, the Cork Weekly Examiner, the Limerick Leader, the Clonmel Nationalist, the Clonmel Chro­nicle, the Clare Cham­pion, the Kerryman, the Southern Star and the Tipperary Star; Donncha O’Dulaing of RTÉ, Domhnal Mac Giolla Phoil and Eily Hales Mc­Carthy for their continuous help and encouragement; also Ned Murphy, Gus Nugent, Mick O’Neill, Jim Kearney, Bill Powell, Seán MacBride, Bill Mc­Kenna, John Flana­gan, Tommy Cassidy, Con Donovan, John O’Leary, Joe Walsh, Mary Ann Nugent, Peggy Quinlan, Mike Hennessy, Gerry Smyth, Anne-Marie White, John Purcell, Sandra Alley, Maura Greene, Micheline Egan, Todd Andrews, Liam Deasy, Tom Barry, Matt Flood, Paddy O’Brien (Lis­carroll) Ernest Blythe, Johnny Fanning, Madge Hales Murphy, Michael Brennan, Emmet Dalton, Dan Caha­lane, Seán Hyde, Frank Aiken and Pat O’Mahony.

  The photographs supplied by Christy O’Callaghan, Helena O’Callaghan, Bernadette O’Connor Ó Liatháin, Pat O’Mahony, Mary O’Mahony, Frank Flynn, John Gallahue, Paddy O’Brien, Margaret O’Brien, Michael McGrath, Michael MacEvilly, Peter Somers and Con O’Donovan are an important en­hance­ment to this book.

  Grateful thanks is also due to the staff at the National Lib­rary, the Public Records Office, the British Library Board News­paper, Clonmel County Clinic, Clonmel County Registrar’s Office and Radio Telefís Éireann Sound Archives.

  A sincere thank you to all at Mercier Press, and especially my editor, Mary Feehan, who worked with me through the final draft of the manuscript. A special word of gratitude is due to mem­­­bers of my family and to my many relatives and friends for their patience throughout my years of research and writing.

  I want to thank the many people for their hospitality during the course of my research; thanks is also due to those who could not help directly but took the trouble to write or telephone ex­plaining where information could he obtained.

  Any omission in this acknowledgement has not been deli­berate, as the assistance of all has been gratefully accepted.