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The Summer Campaign in Kerry (Military History of the Irish Civil War Series)
Tom Doyle
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Description for The Summer Campaign in Kerry (Military History of the Irish Civil War Series)
Paperback. Revolutionary Ireland. 160pp. Series Editor: Gabriel Doherty
On Wednesday, 2 August 1922, Free State troops landed at Fenit pier in the first of a series of seaborne landings on the Cork and Kerry coast. This was a risky and ambitious strategy for the Free State government, whose aim was to surprise the staunchly anti-Treaty republicans in Kerry. By attacking them from an unexpected direction the government hoped to shorten the war, however, over the months of August and September, the republicans mounted a series of counterattacks against the Free State army. When Free State troops were all but surrounded in their barracks, the innovative invasion ... Read more
On Wednesday, 2 August 1922, Free State troops landed at Fenit pier in the first of a series of seaborne landings on the Cork and Kerry coast. This was a risky and ambitious strategy for the Free State government, whose aim was to surprise the staunchly anti-Treaty republicans in Kerry. By attacking them from an unexpected direction the government hoped to shorten the war, however, over the months of August and September, the republicans mounted a series of counterattacks against the Free State army. When Free State troops were all but surrounded in their barracks, the innovative invasion ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Mercier Press
Condition
New
1st Edition
Yes
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Cork, Ireland
ISBN
9781856356763
SKU
9781856356763
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Ref
99-2
About Tom Doyle
Gabriel Doherty teaches in the Department of History, University College Cork. He received his BA in Modern History from Oxford University, having studied at Magdalen College between 1986 and 1989.
Reviews for The Summer Campaign in Kerry (Military History of the Irish Civil War Series)
'A very worthwhile work, casting the events of Summer 1922 in terms of military history rather than in the usual folkloric descriptions of individual raids & atrocities.'
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