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On Friday of Easter Week, approximately thirty-five Fingal Volunteers surrounded the Ashbourne RIC barracks and demanded its surrender. The police responded with a volley of gunfire, initiating a firefight. The Volunteers eventually assaulted the building with a homemade explosive device, prompting the garrison to consider surrender. Before this could be effected, however, a convoy carrying up to sixty additional RIC personnel arrived, triggering a prolonged engagement lasting roughly five hours. Fourteen RIC men were killed and eighteen wounded; the Volunteers suffered two fatalities and five wounded, and a civilian was also killed. Ultimately, the RIC forces capitulated and were disarmed. Commandant Thomas Ashe released the prisoners after cautioning them against further action on behalf of the British authorities. The engagement at Ashbourne thus stands as a significant, though often under-examined, element of the wider Easter Rising.
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Joseph McKenna is a retired local history librarian with over 30 years` experience working in the Central Library in Birmingham. He has a Master of Arts degree in Local History and has written a number of books on revolutionary Ireland. These range from the Irish-American bombing campaign of the 1880s, the Easter Rising, Guerrilla Warfare, and Women in the Struggle for Irish Independence to the IRA bombing Campaign of 1939-40. His local history publications include Clockmakers & Watchmakers of Central England, A Journal of the English Civil War, and the Gunmakers of Birmingham. Joseph McKenna formerly sat on Birmingham City Council`s Conservation Areas Committee and the Birmingham Archdiocese Historical Commission. He is married with one son.
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