2. Life and Death at a Bend in the Road

Lieutenant Edgar Fleming’s contemporary map of the ambush site, marking where the Auxiliaries’ bodies lay and the positions of the flying column and the two lorries.

(© Hemming Deposit, Box 19, ms CCC 536, QD.2.42, Irish Papers. Reproduced by permission of the President and Fellows of Corpus Christi College, Oxford)

An amalgamation of photos of the full ambush site c. 1940s. On the far left is the farmhouse at Kelly’s Cross, which was burnt out by the Auxiliary search patrol.

(Courtesy of Michael Collins House, Clonakilty)

A copy of the Fleming map, annotated and signed by Tom Barry.

(Courtesy of Coppeen Archaeological, Historical & Cultural Society)

Liam Deasy (probably), Tom Barry and Dan Breen c. 1922.

(Courtesy of Louise O’Donovan)

An aerial photograph of the ambush site taken in 2008, marked with location names and the positions of those who gave accounts of the action. (Courtesy of Colum Cronin)

Kilmichael veterans at the commemoration marking the fiftieth anniversary of the ambush, which took place on Sunday, 9 August 1970. (Courtesy of the Irish Examiner Archive)

Two black and white photographs of Ned Young taken at the 1987 Kilmichael commemoration. In the image on the left, John Young, his son, is beside Ned as he lays a wreath in honour of his comrades. The small colour inset of Ned was taken the following year at the 1988 commemoration. (Courtesy of the Irish Examiner Archive)