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⁴ Hittle, J.B.E., Michael Collins and the Anglo-Irish War: Britain’s counterinsurgency failure (Washington D.C., 2012), pp 160–76.Google Scholar Hittle states that fifteen of the twenty-five men targeted were intelligence officers, while he has unverified suspicion about a number of others sought by the I.R.A.

⁵ History Ireland, xix, no. 2 (Mar.–Apr. 2011), p. 12.

⁶ Borgonovo, John, review of Murphy, Gerard, The year of disappearances. Political killings in Cork 1921–1922 (Dublin, 2011)Google Scholar in History Ireland, xix, no. 1 (Nov.–Dec. 2011), pp 56–7.

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¹⁰ Jack Hennessey statement (N.A.I., Bureau of Military History (henceforth B.M.H.), WS 1234); Tim Keohane statement (N.A.I., B.M.H., WS 1295).

¹¹ For the dates of death of Kilmichael veterans, see the booklet, The wild heather glen, published by the Kilmichael and Crossbarry commemoration committee in 2005 (issued in an earlier edition in 1995 by the Ballineen–Enniskeane Heritage group).

¹² Curtis, Lionel, ‘Ireland’, Round Table, 9, no. 43 (June 1921);Google Scholar Crozier, F.P., Ireland forever (London, 1971);Google Scholar O’Neill, Stephen, ‘Auxiliaries annihilated at Kilmichael’ in Rebel Cork’s fighting story (Tralee, 1947), pp 83–5Google Scholar, originally published as ‘The Ambush at Kilmichael’ in The Kerryman, 12 Dec. 1937.

¹³ These are: a participant list published in the Southern Star, 3. Dec. 1938, following a major commemoration of the ambush; a list compiled by Flor Crowley (with the assistance of surviving veterans) published in the Southern Star, 27 Oct. 1973; The wild heather glen pamphlet, published by the Kilmichael and Crossbarry commemoration committee (which includes detailed biographical information on armed and unarmed participants); and Ryan’s, Meda list which appears in Tom Barry: IRA freedom fighter (Cork, 2005).Google Scholar

¹⁴ Southern Star, 16 Mar. 1968, 14 Mar. 1970; Cornelius Kelleher statement (N.A.I., B.M.H., WS 1654).

¹⁵ Southern Star, 27 Oct. 1973

¹⁶ See Justine McCarthy’s article in the Sunday Times, 26 Aug. 2012, and the full statement on the website Spin Watch, (accessed 8 Sept. 2012).

¹⁷ Eve Morrison, Reply to Niall Meehan, in Reviews in History, www.history.ac.uk/reviews/review/1303 (accessed 8 Sept. 2012).

¹⁸ Hart, , The I.R.A. p. 33, n. 56.Google Scholar

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²⁰ Meehan, Review of Terror in Ireland.

²¹ Morrison, Eve, ‘Kilmichael Revisited’, in Fitzpatrick, , Terror in Ireland, pp 167,Google Scholar 178 (endnote 45); Meehan, Review of Terror in Ireland.

²² Father John Chisholm to Maureen Deasy, 21 Sept. 2007, copy in author’s possession.

²³ Ibid.

²⁴ Father John Chisholm to John Young, 12 Apr. 2008, copy in author’s possession: ‘I have no recording of an interview with your father’. Chisholm makes this claim twice in the letter but suggests that Young may have spoken to him off the record.

²⁵ Ryan, , Tom Barry, pp 57,Google Scholar 427.