The Templemore miracles

I came across this today. While reading the Journal.ie. TG4 made a documentary on the subject

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TG4

Above: The improvised altar that had been erected in a yard beside Dwan’s shop, Templemore, 22 August 1920. (National Photographic Archive)

The Devotional revolution ( This is the change in Irish religious practice after the famine, in which the Irish become very observant ultra montane catholics)  meets the Irish revolution

http://youtu.be/aJhXvpzWamw  

An article in the Journal explains more

 http://www.thejournal.ie/how-holy-apparitions-pressed-pause-on-war-of-independence-657793-Nov2012/

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I wonder if Dan Breen, 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Breen  Set the whole thing up himself. Breen was the most secular of the Irish commanders. Also one of the most aggressive IRA commanders. 

Memoir suggests British army at opening shots of Civil War

Memoir suggests British army at opening shots of Civil War

I would point out first that the account has strange entries.
Secondly Collins had fired on the Four Courts by the time, they British regulars were used.

Its also interesting to wonder where the guns and gunners where earlier? at Pettigo perhaps?

http://sleepingunderthecross.blogspot.co.uk/p/ogegg-lahh-nahhh-erinnnn.html

Today in Irish History

22 August 1922 Michael Collins killed in Ambush