Rebel Kerry :

The full story of the revolutionary period in Kerry from current 'Kerryman' journalists as well as contemporary reports from the archives.

On August 1904, the first edition of the Kerryman landed on news stands in Kerry. Staunchly Republican from its inception, the paper enthusiastically recorded the involvement of the Kingdom and its sons and daughters in the Rising, War of Independence and Civil War. The Kerryman's politics brought it into regular conflict with the British establishment and on several occasions it was prevented from publishing, but consistently and defiantly bounced back. Including contemporary reports from the paper itself, as well as accounts by well-known historians of the significant events in Kerry during these times, such as the chaotic attempt to land arms from the German ship Aud, the tragic and horrifying death of Kerryman Thomas Ashe, the Free State landing at Fenit and elsewhere during the Civil War, and the grim atrocities of March 1923 across the country, this book brings the events of these times very much to life. -- Publisher description