Qualla: Scramoge Ambush https://qualla.com/scramoge-ambush en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:12 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/d/3/scramoge-ambush-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Scramoge Ambush https://qualla.com/scramoge-ambush Scramoge Ambush: Introduction https://qualla.com/scramoge-ambush/ Photo credit Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 3.0. The local IRA had complained for months that they couldn't fight here. Roscommon was too flat, too open, too easy for British lorries to see ambushers coming from a mile away. Then someone found the sharp bend on the Strokestown-Longford road at Scramoge, where a farmhouse sat tight against the verge and a hedge would hide a trench. Just one mile away, in the great walled estate of Strokestown House, the British 9th Lancers were garrisoned. On the morning of 23 March 1921, fourteen volunteers crouched in that trench and behind that loopholed wall, and what happened next would mark the deadliest single day of the Irish War of Independence in County Roscommon.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/d/3/scramoge-ambush-wp/gcd3-scramoge-ambush-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Scramoge Ambush: The Plan in the Hedge https://qualla.com/scramoge-ambush/ Photo credit Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 3.0. Sean Connolly had been sent down from Longford by IRA headquarters to wake up the Roscommon brigade, and the site he chose at Scramoge was a small piece of tactical genius. The road bent sharply. A barn and farmhouse stood inches from the verge, easily loopholed for rifle fire. A...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/d/3/scramoge-ambush-wp/gcd3-scramoge-ambush-the-plan-in-the-hedge.mp3 0:06 2 full Scramoge Ambush: Pony, Trap, and the Lorry https://qualla.com/scramoge-ambush/ Photo credit Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 3.0. Morning crept by. The volunteers waited with the discipline that long waiting requires - aware that one mile away, several hundred trained British soldiers were quartered around the columns and gardens of Strokestown House. Just as a troop lorry finally rounded the corner from th...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/d/3/scramoge-ambush-wp/gcd3-scramoge-ambush-pony-trap-and-the-lorry.mp3 0:06 3 full Scramoge Ambush: Four Hundred Yards https://qualla.com/scramoge-ambush/ Photo credit Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 3.0. The Hotchkiss gunner got off one burst before he was badly wounded and the gun fell silent. Captain Roger Grenville Peek, the patrol commander, was hit inside the lorry. He climbed out and ran for his life down the road toward Strokestown, four hundred yards before another shot b...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/d/3/scramoge-ambush-wp/gcd3-scramoge-ambush-four-hundred-yards.mp3 0:06 4 full Scramoge Ambush: The Cost of a Quiet Victory https://qualla.com/scramoge-ambush/ Photo credit Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 3.0. The aftermath darkened almost immediately. The two captured Black and Tans offered to teach the IRA how to operate the Hotchkiss in exchange for their lives. Madden, Luke Duffy and Frank Simons made the decision the war had taught them to make: if released, the prisoners could id...

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