Hidden Histories EP43

This month on Tipperary's Hidden History, as we approach the centenary of the beginning of the Irish Civil War, Conor brings us the first episode in an occasional series on how that conflict played out in County Tipperary. Today he takes us to Tipperary town, a century ago this week. Free State Ireland came into being just weeks earlier. As the British army and RIC began to withdraw their forces, they faced great personal danger, with daily attacks from republicans and a hostile population. One hundred years ago today, the RIC began their evacuation of the police barracks in Tipperary town. As Conor explains, it was an evacuation, like many others across the island, that ended in bloodshed...