In April of 1918 two Irish Volunteers were killed in raid on an R.I.C. station at Gortatlea in County Kerry. Months before Soloheadbeg this was an early action in the War of Independence. On the 18th of June the Ballymacelligott Company set out to take revenge for their fallen comrades.
Tadhg Kennedy
http://www.bureauofmilitaryhistory.ie/reels/bmh/BMH.WS1413.pdf
Thomas McEllistrim
http://www.bureauofmilitaryhistory.ie/reels/bmh/BMH.WS0882.pdf
Dying for the Cause: https://www.mercierpress.ie/irish-books/dying-for-the-cause-/
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