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From: "conaught" <>
Subject: [MAYO] Easter Week Series #14
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 17:22:16 -0700



Liam Lynch (1893-1923) was born in Co. Limerick where he worked in a
hardware store. He reorganized the Cork Volunteers in 1919 and commanded an
effective Brigade in the Anglo-Irish War of Independence. He was a member of
the Irish Republican Army Supreme Council, Chief of Staff of the IRA,
established the IRA Executive, March 1922. He was an influential opponent of
the 1921 Treaty. Although he resigned over the seizure of the Four Courts,
he joined its garrison in June, 1922. Commander of the first southern
division of the "Irregulars" he sought to hold the "Munster Republic" and
issued the "orders of frightfulness" against the Provisional government.
While preparing to come to terms with them in April, 1923, he was shot to
death.


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Ellen Naliboff

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Selected references:

Boylan, Henry, A Dictionary of Irish Biography, Third Edition, Gill &
Macmillan, Dublin, 1998.

Connolly, S.J., editor, The Oxford Companion to Irish History, Oxford
University Press, 1998.

Foster, R.F., Modern Ireland, 1600-1972, Penguin Books, 1988.

Fry, Peter and Fiona Somerset, A History of Ireland, Barnes & Noble, New
York, 1988

Llywelyn, Morgan, 1921, A Tom Doherty Associates Book, New York, 2001.







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