BBC documentary claims British Artillery fired first shots of Irish Civil War

Memoir throws new light on near century old debate

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Collins’s biographer Tim Pat Coogan told the BBC programme he did not know if Creek’s version of events was accurate, but ‘it could have happened.’

University of Dundee professor Dr John Regan told the BBC that the account ‘complicates things’. He said: “It suggests that the British were there for the opening shots of the Irish Civil War.”

The programme can be heard at: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01nl67c

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