The Burning of the Custom House | May 1921 - Episode 36
De Valera’s return from the United States saw a disagreement over the conduct of the War of Independence. He believed that the ambushes and assassinations were mere “pinpricks” and that to bring the British to the negotiating table they would need large propaganda spectacles. Months of planning eventually led to the attack on the Custom House; seen by some as the blow that broke the British military and by others as a disaster which almost destroyed the IRA.
References:
T. Ryle Dwyer - “The Squad”
David McCullagh - “De Valera: Rise”
Las Fallon - Burning the Custom House: www.thejournal.ie/readme/cust...
Oscar Traynor - BMH statement: www.militaryarchives.ie/colle...
The Clock is Still Going - Custom House Commemoration: www.customhousecommemoration.com
Photos from South Dublin Libraries: hdl.handle.net/10599/11044,
hdl.handle.net/10599/10625, hdl.handle.net/10599/10622
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Main Sources:
Military Archives - www.bureauofmilitaryhistory.ie
Century Ireland - www.rte.ie/centuryireland
Diarmuid Lynch, Irish Revolutionary - diarmuidlynch.weebly.com/
Atlas of the Irish Revolution
Maurice Walsh - “Bitter Freedom”
Charles Townshend - "The Republic"
Michael Hopkinson - ”The Irish War of Independence”
Diarmuid Ferriter - “A Nation and not a Rabble”
Richard Abbot - “Police Casualties in Ireland 1919 - 1922”
Photos:
Military Archives
NLI Flickr account
Wiki Commons
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One of my Grand Uncles, was one of those who participated in the setting alight of the building. He was a serving member of the RAF but home on leave. When he was questioned by the auxiliaries upon leaving the building, he showed his RAF identification and walked away.
You've been much missed!! Another excellent episode.
I have been binge watching your content after finding it recently and I thought I was seeing things when I got a notice this was uploaded. These are lessons we could never learn in school, and I am super grateful for all the work you put into your videos. :D
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Awesome
Brilliant.
Is more content possible? Fantastic show. I repeat listen often
Terrific
Good work.
So, not that we'll ever know for sure, was this the IRA's "Tet Offensive" in that it was a tactical disaster but a strategic victory ? Thanks for such a fascinating episode either way !
Thank God James, I thought something had happened to you. Keep up the brilliant work.
Another great episode
Awesome history
Come back 😢
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have you done a video on an bunreact 1937 63 article that dev had put together for the men and women of eire
My grandfather a captain in the IRA, met his wife during that operation. He was captured and was imprisoned awaiting court martial. He became sick while in prison and was treated in the mater hospital. His younger brother, my grand uncle, was executed by the British while my grandfather was detained. The truce was signed before he recovered. They married shortly afterwards and had 6 children. One of the children was my father. My grandfather always maintained that develera was a self centered, egotistical, diot who has no idea about military tactics.