A ceremony to mark the 50th anniversary of an IRA attack at Kilmichael during the War of Independence.
On 28 November 1920 the Irish Republican Army carried out an ambush near Kilmichael between Dunmanway and Macroom in County Cork.
Comdt General Tom Barry led 36 local IRA volunteers during an attack that killed 17 members of the Royal Irish Constabulary Auxiliary Division. This encounter occurred one week after Bloody Sunday in Dublin and marked an escalation in the IRA campaign. Three IRA men died in the attack.
Fifty years later, crowds attend a memorial ceremony at the site of the ambush. The commemoration included a parade led by the Cork Volunteer Pipe Band and the Carrigaline Pipe Band, a celebration of mass and an oration by Comdt General Tom Barry.
An RTÉ News report broadcast on 9 August 1970.
