Qualla: Clonmult Ambush https://qualla.com/clonmult-ambush en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:11 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/4/p/clonmult-ambush-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Clonmult Ambush https://qualla.com/clonmult-ambush Clonmult Ambush: Introduction https://qualla.com/clonmult-ambush/ Photo credit Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 3.0. They had been told to throw their rifles into the fire. The thatch was already burning above them, the farmhouse filling with smoke, and their commander wanted no weapons captured. So as the men of the East Cork IRA filed out with their hands up on 20 February 1921, ammunition was cooking off inside the burning building behind them. The police outside heard shots and made their own decision about what those shots meant. By the end of that afternoon at Clonmult, twelve volunteers were dead and many more lined up beside an outhouse with revolvers at their mouths. It became the IRA's worst single loss of the Irish War of Independence.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/4/p/clonmult-ambush-wp/gc4p-clonmult-ambush-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Clonmult Ambush: The 4th Battalion https://qualla.com/clonmult-ambush/ Photo credit Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 3.0. The 4th Battalion of the IRA's First Cork Brigade was based around the towns of Midleton, Youghal and Cobh in East Cork. Under Diarmuid O'Hurley it had been a notably successful unit. The battalion had captured three Royal Irish Constabulary barracks and executed an ambush in Mid...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/4/p/clonmult-ambush-wp/gc4p-clonmult-ambush-the-4th-battalion.mp3 0:06 2 full Clonmult Ambush: The Siege https://qualla.com/clonmult-ambush/ Photo credit Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 3.0. British troops of the 2nd Battalion, Hampshire Regiment, under Lieutenant A. R. Koe, surrounded the farmhouse. Two volunteers on lookout spotted them and opened fire. Both were killed immediately, but the shooting alerted the men inside. Jack O'Connell of the Cobh Company, acting...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/4/p/clonmult-ambush-wp/gc4p-clonmult-ambush-the-siege.mp3 0:06 3 full Clonmult Ambush: The Surrender https://qualla.com/clonmult-ambush/ Photo credit Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 3.0. With the farmhouse burning around them, the volunteers tried to surrender. What happened next is one of the most contested moments of the War of Independence. The IRA's General Headquarters said some volunteers came out with their hands up while others kept firing. The local RIC ...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/4/p/clonmult-ambush-wp/gc4p-clonmult-ambush-the-surrender.mp3 0:06 4 full Clonmult Ambush: What Probably Happened https://qualla.com/clonmult-ambush/ Photo credit Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 3.0. Historians remain divided. Peter Hart wrote that 'the Irish survivors testified convincingly that there had been no treachery on their part.' He compared Clonmult to the Kilmichael ambush three months earlier, where the IRA had killed surrendering Auxiliaries - calling Clonmult '...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/4/p/clonmult-ambush-wp/gc4p-clonmult-ambush-what-probably-happened.mp3 0:06 5 full Clonmult Ambush: The Names and the Aftermath https://qualla.com/clonmult-ambush/ Photo credit Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 3.0. Fourteen IRA members died in connection with Clonmult - the twelve killed at the farmhouse and the two executed afterwards. Add two Black and Tans killed in related actions and six men shot by the IRA in the following days as suspected informers, and the death toll reaches 22. Th...

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