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died at the Somme.
    12. John Bradfield: shot in place of his brother William, who was an ex-military man and allegedly passed information to the military during the War of Independence.
    13. James Wilson: from Dunmanway, he was sought and fled to England; his sister was told that he would be shot.
    14. Hewart Wilson: sought and fled to England; his sister was told that he would be shot.
    15. George ‘Appy’ Bryan: gun placed to his head on 26 April in Dunmanway, but the gun misfired.
    16. William Jagoe: sought on 26 April, but was not at home; windows shot out.
    17. John McCarthy: house was shot up on 26 April in Dunmanway.
    18. Tom Sullivan: heard voices outside his house and fled, taking refuge in the graveyard.
    19. Bank of Ireland was attacked on 26 April in Dunmanway.
    20. William Morrison: house was attacked on 26 April in Dunmanway but he was not at home.
    21. Gilbert Johnston: beaten up in Bandon by six IRA men because he was a Protestant and an ex-service man.
    22. R. J. Helen: claimed he was attacked in Clonakilty and escaped.
    23. William Daunt: attacked in Ballineen on 27 April; no reason given.
    24. Henry Bradfield: also sought on the night John Bradfield was shot at Killowen.
    25. W. J. Buttimer: sought on the night his father was shot in Cahir, Ballineen.
    26. Thomas Hornibrook: arrested and shot after a firefight at Ballygroman House following the shooting of Michael O’Neill.
    27. Samuel Hornibrook: arrested and shot after a firefight at Ballygroman House following the shooting of Michael O’Neill.
    28. Herbert Woods: arrested and probably hanged following the shooting of Michael O’Neill at Ballygroman House.
    29. James Bennett: sought on the night of the Ballineen killings; worked for the Cotters who had been boycotted and Alfred Cotter killed in 1921.
    30. Robert Bennett: sought on the night of the Ballineen killings; worked for the Cotters who had been boycotted and Alfred Cotter killed in 1921.
    31. Jasper Travers Wolfe: apparently sought on the night of 28 April and fled to England; he was at court in Cork the following week according to the Cork Examiner.
    32. William G. Wood: apparently sought on the night of 28 April and fled to England.
    33. Edward Woods: warned to leave Cork after the shooting of Thomas and Samuel Hornibrook and Herbert Woods by the anti-Treaty IRA according to his witness statement to the Irish Grants Committee in 1927.
    34. Matilda Woods: warned to leave Cork after the shooting of Thomas and Samuel Hornibrook and Herbert Woods by the anti-Treaty IRA, but she was still in residence in ‘Glenbrae’, Cross Douglas Road, in June 1922.
    35. Family of Tom Nagle: nine brothers written to and warned to leave the country after the shooting of Robert, despite the fact that they lived in other parts of Ireland.
    36. D. Cameron: a seventy-three-year-old Protestant from Crookstown, County Cork, he was warned to leave the country; no known reason.

Appendix 2
    I MMEDIATE AND T ERRIBLE W AR
    ‘Immediate and terrible war’ was the phrase apparently used by Lloyd George to force a conclusion to the negotiations about the Articles of Agreement for a Treaty between Great Britain and Ireland on 3 and 5 December 1921. What this meant is rarely explained, but a rarely accessed set of documents in the British National Archives outlines exactly what was involved. This is the blueprint for the suppression of Ireland after the Truce and shows that the British did not regard the Truce as the end of the war by any means. It is reproduced here simply as an example of the documents now available free to access online.
    From the National Archives, Kew
    Current reference CAB 43/2, pp. 74–7 1
    Very Secret.
    Memorandum by the Secretary of State for War.
    1. In the event of the present Conference failing to reach an agreement and hostilities recommencing, we must be prepared to face the condition that these hostilities may open before the expiration of the 72 hours of grace.
    It is essential that the