Open Access‘The other boys of K ilmichael’: No. 2 Section, ‘C’ Company, Auxiliary Division Royal Irish Constabulary, 28 N ovember 1920
Author(s) -
Nelson Andrew
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
historical research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.203
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1468-2281
pISSN - 0950-3471
DOI - 10.1111/1468-2281.12057
Subject(s) - irish , section (typography) , division (mathematics) , library science , history , management , political science , advertising , business , computer science , economics , philosophy , mathematics , linguistics , arithmetic
The K ilmichael incident of N ovember 1920, in which an Irish R epublican A rmy (I.R.A.) column of nearly forty men ambushed and killed all bar one of a motorized patrol of eighteen A uxiliary D ivision R oyal I rish C onstabulary cadets, proved to be one of the I.R.A .'s most noted victories of the A nglo‐ I rish W ar. Recent historiography has been dominated by controversy over the late P eter H art's 1998 conclusion that contemporary B ritish claims of I.R.A . mutilation of the cadet's dead bodies were true. However, this article aims to demonstrate that studying other aspects of K ilmichael, such as the British unit, can enable a broader understanding of both the ambush, and of contemporary British policy concerns.