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2. ‘They will have to wade through Irish blood’

Kerry Sinn Féin councillor Albinia Brodrick (right) who heckled Fionán Lynch TD during the Dáil debate on the Treaty, pictured with Mary MacSwiney TD. (Courtesy of

University College Dublin Archive)

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Members of the anti-Treaty IRA take control of Ballymullen Barracks in Tralee in January

First Southern Division delegates at the IRA Convention at the Mansion House, Dublin, 9 April 1922, including Kerry delegates Tadhg Brosnan, Tom Daly, Tom McEllistrim, Dan Mulvihill, Denis Daly, John Joe Rice and Humphrey Murphy.

(Courtesy of Kilmainham Gaol Museum/OPW, KMGLM.20PC-1A26-22)

Brigadier General Fionán Lynch with Michael Collins in Tralee in August 1922.

Fionán Lynch TD (second from right) and W.R. English-Murphy, head of the Kerry Command (right) with senior Free State Army officers including Eoin O’Duffy (fourth

from left). (Courtesy of National Library of Ireland)

Captain Ned Breslin, Kerry Command,

Free State Army. (Courtesy of South Dublin Libraries/Brophy Collection) Colonel David Neligan, Kerry Command, Free State Army.

Free State Army soldiers disembark from the Lady Wicklow at Fenit on 2 August 1922.

(Courtesy of the The Kerryman Archive)

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