Flying column

Yeah.

Flying Squad? Flying Column.

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Flying Column.

Um, so, so look, the, uh, and then the, the last stage of, of the War of Independence is, like, uh, 1,000 people are killed in, in that kind of, uh, 19, you know, uh, uh, January 1921 to July 1921.

Yeah.

That'll be another one for another day.

I don't know lads like look from the like I got an A1 in history in the Levisert I didn't get an A1 in everything you know but I got an A1 in history and a lot of that was on my grandmother's farm there's a Celtic cross from back where 1919 the Flying Columns basically they have a memorial there for young lads and they were only like 17 to 21 that were all killed basically trying to cut off supplies to the two towns of British troops and stuff doing their thing for the country.

And there's always a tricolour there, you know, and in my grandmother's fields, there's still big, big hollows from grenades from that time.

And

Patrick Casey was from County Limerick.

He was 25 years old, a quartermaster and a member of the Mid-Limerick Flying Column.

On the 1st of May 1921, Casey was wounded and captured during a failed ambush near Kildaree.

He was brought to Cork.

The final execution came on the 16th of May Daniel O'Brien was from Liscarrell in North Cork.

He was about 30 years old and he came from a family deeply involved in the Republican movement.

By 1921, he was serving with the Cork No. 2 Brigade Flying Column.

On the 11th of May, British troops surrounded a house near Ockram where O'Brien was staying with his brother Paddy and another volunteer, Jack O'Regan.