Kilmichael – the dangerous business of digging for facts about a still-contested ambush

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Book review: Kilmichael - The Life and Afterlife of an Ambush. Eve Morrison was threatened and misled when researching the 1920 IRA ambush in West Cork that left 18 RIC men dead and injured.

Writing about the 1920 Kilmichael ambush can be a dangerous business. While researching this book, Eve Morrison warns, she was “verbally threatened, actively misled more than once, shouted at in the streets by strangers and shadowed when visiting the site. One individual I spoke to asked if I was wearing a wire.”

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