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Béal na Bláth or Béal na Blá (anglicised Bealnablath or Bealnabla) [1] is a small village on the R585 road in County Cork, Ireland. The area is best known as the site of the ambush and death of the Irish revolutionary leader Michael Collins in 1922.
Aug 21, 2022 · BÉAL NA BLÁTH sits in a tight, shallow valley in rural west Cork, banked by broad deciduous trees and rolling slopes. The modern day village comprises of a service station and a pub on a corner...
Collins’ shooting has provoked many conspiracy theories in Ireland, and even the identity and motives of the assassin are subject to debate. Some Republicans maintain that Collins was killed by a British “plant”. Some Pro-Treaty accounts claim that de Valera ordered Collins’ assassination.
- Investigating Béal Na Blá
- The Wider Conflict Landscape
- Into The Hornet's Nest
- The Ambush Zone - The Upper Lane
- The Ambush Zone - The Main Road
It was in this context that, in advance of the centenary of Michael Collins’s death, Cork County Council tasked the authors with using the methodology developed by the Landscapes of Revolution Project to investigate Béal na Blá. Together with analysis conducted by Professor Finola O’Kane Crimmins of UCD School of Architecture, this investigation wa...
The reason why the Béal na Blá ambush occurred where it did is rooted in the significance of this locality during the entire revolutionary period. It is a story that is still visible in the landscape today, written in stone in the form of the numerous historic buildings that dot the area. The 1922 conflict landscape extends well beyond the immediat...
The anti-Treaty IRA in Long’s Pub were preparing for a high-level meeting at the Murray Safehouse scheduled for later that day. It was at the crossroads that Collins was first identified, and in these buildings that plans for the ambush were formulated. Despite significant later development—Béal na Blá crossroads is now dominated by a service stati...
The most significant surviving landscape feature within the ambush zone itself is the primary anti-Treaty IRA position, which we designated ‘the Upper Lane’. This small boreen runs parallel to the main road, situated on high ground off to the west. It was the primary position of the small number of IRA men on the evening of 22 August. They were pro...
Perhaps unsurprisingly, the part of the Béal na Blá conflict landscape that has undergone the most change since 1922 is in the vicinity of the Collins memorial. While photographic analysis confirms that the embankment behind the stone cross looks much as it did one hundred years ago, the road itself has been significantly altered. These changes wer...
Aug 21, 2022 · Michael Collins was killed in Béal na Bláth during the Irish Civil war 100 years ago, his relatives and historians recount his final movements. State, knowing that this name and designation ...
Aug 22, 2018 · While some think of him as the great peacemaker who would have led Ireland to peaceful and progressive modernity, or perhaps to a united Ireland, others, less convinced of his peaceable and democratic intentions, see him as a potential military dictator in the making.
Aug 25, 2022 · The cap that Michael Collins was wearing at the time of his death at Béal na Bláth on 22nd August, 1922 is the subject of substantial discussion in the upcoming docu-drama Cold Case...
