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Chapter 2 - Revolver in Hand, Lining the Ditches

Holding Fast and Fighting Back in Loyalist Monaghan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 April 2024

Edward Burke
Affiliation:
University College Dublin
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This chapter outlines the effective remobilisation and arming of elements of the Monaghan Ulster Volunteer Force in 1920 and refutes claims of a loyalist “collapse” by providing evidence of loyalist paramilitary activities after a wave of republican counter-reprisals in late March 1921. It contends that a number of IRA operations in the area of County Monaghan bordering Rosslea went badly wrong, and that a successful, well-organised loyalist defence helped to bring both sides to agree a formal truce in April 1921. Loyalist resistance continued elsewhere in Monaghan until the national truce of July 1921, putting the IRA under considerable pressure in parts of the county. It also argues that ties between Ulster loyalists in Belfast and those in Monaghan persisted, helping the latter to resist boycotting of their business interests, and shoring up their political position through the Protestant Defence Association in the new Free State.

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Ulster's Lost Counties
Loyalism and Paramilitarism since 1920
, pp. 31 - 94
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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