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Tom McEllistrim (1894–1973)

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with some of his divisional staff and officers of the brigades, including the 1st Southern Division, who attended as delegates to the Anti-Treaty Army Convention at the Mansion House, Dublin, on 9 April 1922. Tom McEllistrim is 2nd from right at the very
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McEllistrim was elected to the Dáil as a TD for Kerry in August 1923, only months after the end of the civil war, as a republican candidate. He came third in the county with 7,277 votes. He remained a TD for the
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but he never wrote a book about his exploits, nor was he prepared to talk about them publicly... Even though McEllistrim sat in the Dáil for over forty years, he apparently never mentioned the period in
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of 1922 to 1923. He was one of the senior IRA figures in Kerry during this conflict, under the command of Humphrey Murphy. In the war's early months, he commanded a Kerry column in the fighting in
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in the spring of 1921. At the latter action, in which the IRA ambushed a train carrying British troops, Dan Allman, the leader of the flying column was killed, leaving McEllistrim in command.
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According to historian T. Ryle Dwyer, "McEllistrim arguably played as important a role in the War of Independence as
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barracks in which two Volunteers were killed. It was one of the first acts of guerrilla warfare in the period.
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from 1926 to 1969. After 1926, he followed much the republican leadership into Fianna Fáil. His son,
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T. Ryle Dwyer, Tans Terror and Troubles, Kerry's Real Fighting Story, p10–11
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for his role in the events. In April 1918, he led an arms raid on Gortatlea
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of 1919 to 1921. He was instrumental in the setting up of first an
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Index

Tom McEllistrim (disambiguation)
Teachta Dála
July 1937
June 1969
Kerry North
August 1923
July 1937
Kerry
Listowel
County Kerry
Tralee
Fianna Fáil
Tom McEllistrim
Tom
Irish Republican Brotherhood
Irish Volunteers
Irish Republican Army
Anti-Treaty IRA
Irish War of Independence
Irish Civil War
Fianna Fáil
Teachta Dála
Ballymacelligott
Irish Volunteers
Roger Casement
Easter Rising
Banna Strand
County Kerry
Frongoch internment camp
Wales

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