Donegal & the Civil War : The Untold Story

This book tells the fascinating story of the role County Donegal played in the Irish Civil War. Donegal was one of the counties used by the Irish Free State to launch an offensive against the newly established government in the six counties of Northern Ireland. The bulk of the anti-Treaty IRA men who took part were from the southern counties including Cork and Kerry. Donegal became the scene of the last standup fight between the IRA and British military with the latter using heavy artillery for the first time in Ireland since 1916. Following the outbreak of the Civil War these men were inadvertently caught up in the hostilities that followed in County Donegal, and four of them were subsequently executed; the only executions to take place in Donegal.