De Valera’s return from the United States saw a disagreement over the conduct of the War of Independence. He believed that the ambushes and assassinations were mere “pinpricks” and that to bring the British to the negotiating table they would need large propaganda spectacles. Months of planning eventually led to the attack on the Custom House; seen by some as the blow that broke the British military and by others as a disaster which almost destroyed the IRA.
References:
T. Ryle Dwyer - “The Squad”
David McCullagh - “De Valera: Rise”
Las Fallon - Burning the Custom House: https://www.thejournal.ie/readme/custom-house-dublin-fire-brigade-5446490-May2021/
Oscar Traynor - BMH statement: https://www.militaryarchives.ie/collections/online-collections/bureau-of-military-history-1913-1921/reels/bmh/BMH.WS0340.pdf
The Clock is Still Going - Custom House Commemoration: https://www.customhousecommemoration.com
Photos from South Dublin Libraries: http://hdl.handle.net/10599/11044,
http://hdl.handle.net/10599/10625, http://hdl.handle.net/10599/10622
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Main Sources:
Military Archives - http://www.bureauofmilitaryhistory.ie
Century Ireland - https://www.rte.ie/centuryireland
Diarmuid Lynch, Irish Revolutionary - http://diarmuidlynch.weebly.com/
Atlas of the Irish Revolution
Maurice Walsh - “Bitter Freedom”
Charles Townshend - "The Republic"
Michael Hopkinson - ”The Irish War of Independence”
Diarmuid Ferriter - “A Nation and not a Rabble”
Richard Abbot - “Police Casualties in Ireland 1919 - 1922”
Photos:
Military Archives
NLI Flickr account
Wiki Commons
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