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IE CA CP/3/79/9
Title
Commandant Daniel J. Allman Memorial Card
Date(s)
- 1921 (Creation)
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2 pp; printed and clipping
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(24 November 1900-26 July 1970)
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A memorial card Commandant Daniel J. Allman who was ‘killed in action at Headford, Co. Kerry on the 21st March 1921’.
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Daniel J. Allman was a leading figure in the IRA in County Kerry during the War of Independence. As Commandant of the East Kerry Brigade, he led an ambush of a train carrying British troops at Headford Junction railway station near Killarney. At least fourteen people died in the incident; eight British soldiers, two IRA volunteers (Commandant Daniel J. Allman and Lieutenant Jimmy Baily) and four civilians (including an informer killed after the ambush).