Today marks the 101st anniversary of the Kilmichael Ambush.

The engagement at Kilmichael was the first between the IRA and the previously invincible Auxilaries and one of the most important battles of the Tan War.

The British establishment could not comprehend how 18 battle-hardened officers fell in combat against what they previously dismissed as a 'rabble'.

Click the link below for the Sein Fein Facebook post.

101st Anniversary of the Kilmichael Ambush