Reference code
IE CA CP/3/16/3/68
Title
General Lucas
Date(s)
- c.1919 (Creation)
Level of description
Part
Extent and medium
1 p.; Printed
Name of creator
(24 November 1900-26 July 1970)
Repository
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Scope and content
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.