Cote
IE CA CP/3/16/3/68
Titre
General Lucas
Date(s)
- c.1919 (Création/Production)
Niveau de description
Partie
Étendue matérielle et support
1 p.; Printed
Nom du producteur
(24 November 1900-26 July 1970)
Histoire archivistique
Source immédiate d'acquisition ou de transfert
Portée et contenu
A republican flier with the text of a ballad be sung to the air of ‘Where the Blarney roses grow’. The first line reads ‘Twas over in Rathcormac, near the town of old Fermoy’. Cuthbert Lucas became Commander of 17th Infantry Brigade in Ireland in 1919. During the Irish War of Independence, in June 1920 he was captured by the IRA and held in East Clare. He was released four weeks later.