War of Independence

The War of Independence Comes to North Connemara: March 1921
Virtual Conference
The Night Tuam Was Burned
A compilation of contemporary newspaper accounts from The Tuam Herald, The Freeman's Journal, and the Irish Independent, reproduced in the Tuam Herald in 1988
Police Run Amok
Irish Examiner 21 July 1920
The Ambush at Gallagh and Sack of Tuam
TIMELINE: War of Independence, County Galway: 19th & 20th July 1920
Ballyturin House
Landed Estates Database
Burnings and panic follow ambush at Ballyturin
Galway Advertiser 18 October 2012
Ballyturin domestic staff
Freeman's Journal Classified pages
Auction of Ballyturin House and Lands, 1937
The House was left to fall to ruins after the IRA ambush at its gates in May, 1921
An account of the ambush at Ballyturin House, 1921
From the National Folklore Collection, UCD
Mai O’Dea and the Fahy family, Caherduff, Ardrahan