| Found in | Work cat.: The war of independence, 2001: pp. 7-8 ("At Meenbanad ... in the Rosses of Donegal stands a slab monument with the following inscription in Irish and English: 'To commemorate the first action in the War of Independence when the Irish Volunteers rescued two comrades James Ward and James Duffy from British troops at this place on the 4th day of January, 1918' ... The action ... antedated by a year and seventeen days the incident that is conventionally regarded as the beginning of the Anglo-Irish War.")
A dictionary of Irish history since 1800, 1980.
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