1. Limerick City Library
Evening Lecture Series
Some Incidents from the
War of Independence in Limerick
a lecture by Thomas Toomey

2. 1912
– Anti-Unionist Riots 10/11th
October
– Na Fianna Sluagh
– The IRB

3. 1914
– Sunday 25th
January 1914, Atheneum
– Landing guns at Kilcoole
‘Kelpie’
‘Chotah’
– Redmondite Split & Re-organisation

4. 1915
– Whitsunday Parade
– Monteith ‘goes abroad’

5. 1916
– Fiasco in Kerry
– Indecision in Killonan
– What happened Monteith?

6. 1917
– Splits & more splits
– Limerick City
– Galtee area

7. 1919
– Rescue of Robert Byrnes
– The Limerick Soviet
– Rescue of Seán Hogan

8. 1920
• Shootings of February 3rd
• Shooting of Constable Oakley
• Shootings at Shanagolden & Abbeyfeale
• Shooting of Blake & O’Neill

9. 1921
• Dromkeen Ambush
• Shootings of March 7th
• Shraherla & Lackelly
• Execution of Thomas Keane
• Peace of sorts at last

12. END
NEXT LECTURE
“Sunlight, Bovril
& Michelin Tyres” – advertising and
buying in Ireland, 1880 – 1910”
an illustrated lecture by
Eleanor O’Leary
on
Thursday, 6th
December, 2007
at
8.00pm