Massacre in West Cork: the Dunmanway and Ballygorman killings

BARRY KEANE Mercier Press £19.99 ISBN 9781781172032 The killing of thirteen Protestants in West Cork in April 1922—the ‘Ballygorman and Dunmanway massacre’—is one of the most disputed incidents in modern Irish history. On 26 April 1922, Michael O’Neill (a local IRA man) was shot dead by Herbert Woods during an arms raid on the farm ... Read more

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