A chara,—A fine article regarding RIC District Inspector Swanzy and the ensuing riots in Lisburn (HI 28.5, Sept./Oct. 2020). One clarification, however, re the assertion that ‘Swanzy was assassinated … by Volunteers of the Cork IRA’. To the best of my research—as substantiated in Richard Abbott’s excellent Police casualties in Ireland 1919–1922 (pp 113–15)—Mick Collins ... Read more
