From pogrom to Civil War : Tom Glennon and the Belfast IRA / Kieran Glennon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Glennon, Kieran.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Glennon, T. J. (Tom J.).

Glennon, T. J.

Irish Republican Army--Biography.

Irish Republican Army.

Ireland. Army--Biography.

Ireland.

Ireland. Army.

Irish--Australia--Biography.

Irish.

Political violence--Ireland--History--20th century.

Political violence.

Politics and government.

History.

Political violence--Northern Ireland--History--20th century.

Northern Ireland.

Northern Ireland--Politics and government--20th century.

Ireland--Politics and government--1922-1949.

Australia.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

352 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Cork : Mercier Press, [2013]

Summary:

When the Belfast pogrom erupted in Ally 1920, Tom Glennon was a twenty-year-old officer in the IRA. The next three years took him from brutal street fighting in Belfast and organising a flying column in the Glens of Antrim, to a daring escape from captivity in the Curragh and the viciousness of the Civil War in Donegal. Scarred by his experiences, he sought to create a new life in Australia, only to find further tragedy awaiting him. In From Pogrom to Civil War Kieran Glennon, Tom's grandson, uses contemporary documents and the accounts of comrades and enemies to tell the story of Tom Glennon's time as an officer in the northern IRA during the War of Independence and in the Free State army during the Civil War. It is a story that illustrates the psychological price paid by participants in these events; as shown by Tom's efforts in later years to avoid any mention of his past. The author also re-examines the mythology of the pogrom and questions Michael Collins' northern policy after the signing of the Treaty, asking: were the northern IRA the victims of a monstrous betrayal? Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Parents, siblings and early life 19

2 In the IRA during the War of Independence 23

3 The Curragh - imprisonment and escape 73

4 Belfast after the Truce 85

5 After the Treaty: tensions in Dublin and Donegal 134

6 The end of the 3rd Northern Division 186

7 Donegal and the tragedies of civil war 200

8 Peacetime 238

9 Nan 243

10 Legacies 256

11 Epilogue 304.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1781171467

9781781171462

OCLC:

820781674

Publisher Number:

99954902085