The Kilmichael ambush was an attack carried out on 28 November 1920 by the Irish Republican Army near the village of Kilmichael, County Cork, during the Irish War of Independence. Thirty-six local IRA
Monument at the ambush site
An Irish press report on the ambush
County Cork is the largest and the southernmost county of Ireland, named after the city of Cork, the country's second-largest city. It is in the province of Munster and the Southern Region. Its larges
The Beara pass, through the Slieve Miskish mountains
A 15th-century drawing of Perkin Warbeck
Michael Collins, photographed in 1919
St Finbar's church, located on Gougane Barra, a 6th century monastery site.