Sources<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\nD\u00e1il \u00c9ireann debates; University College Dublin Archives \u2013 Richard Mulcahy Papers and Ernie O\u2019Malley Papers; Westmeath Library Services, 1912-1923 documents; Freeman\u2019s Journal<\/em>, Irish Independent<\/em>, Irish Times<\/em>, Westmeath Examiner<\/em>, Westmeath Independent<\/em>, Poblacht na h\u00c9ireann<\/em>. For further detail, see John Burke\u2019s, Athlone 1900-1923: politics, revolution and civil war<\/em> (The History Press, 2015); Liam Cox, Moate - County Westmeath: A History of Town and District <\/em>(Alfa Print Ltd, 1981); Gear\u00f3id \u00d3 Faole\u00e1n, \u2018The Shooting of Brigadier-General George Adamson, 1922\u2019, New Hibernia Review \/ Iris \u00c9ireannach Nua<\/em>, volume 19, spring 2015; Michael Hopkinson, Green against Green: the Irish Civil War<\/em> (Gill & Macmillan, 2004); Ian Kenneally, \u2018A Medium for Enemy Propaganda: the press, Westmeath, and the Civil War\u2019, Journal of The Old Athlone Society<\/em>, number 10, 2015; and Uinseann MacEoin, Survivors<\/em> (Argenta Publications, 1987).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ian Kenneally In the previous article, we explored the circumstances that led to the shooting dead of George Adamson in April 1922. Here, we look in more detail at the subsequent propaganda battle in which both pro- and anti-Treaty forces blamed each other for Adamson\u2019s death. That propaganda battle began with, as discussed in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3],"tags":[71,443,452,434],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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