Historian Liz Gillis finds credible witness statement that Collins and anti-Treaty IRA men squared up in Clonakilty hotel just days before the start of the Civil War
Michael Collins was involved in armed stand-off with anti-Treaty IRA men in Cork months before he was killed, new research reveals
Ms Doyle said she went upstairs and went to sleep in her room only to be awoken at about 2am by one of the owners of the hotel, Ms O’Donovan and a barmaid calling her to get up and come down quickly as there was a disturbance in the hotel.
“The fact that both sides were drinking late into the night should be no surprise as by the time of the truce you had a lot of IRA men who were drinking, given what they had been dealing with in the previous two years where they were constantly on the run and the threat of being killed. “Remember the British were raiding and searching for him from 1919, so he was constantly on the move and there was also huge pressure on him at the Treaty talks in London in December 1921, so it’s hardly surprising he is drinking to relieve the stress when he is back in west Cork.”
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