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The Templemore Miracles - Jimmy Walsh, Ceasefires and Moving Statues (Paperback)
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The Templemore Miracles - Jimmy Walsh, Ceasefires and Moving Statues (Paperback)
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In the aftermath of the 1916 Rising, the ensuing guerrilla war
reached its peak in August 1920, in the garrison town of
Templemore, when a series of extraordinary events occurred.
16-year-old farm labourer Jimmy Walsh claimed that he was
experiencing Marian apparitions, and that religious statues owned
by him were moving and bleeding. Miraculous cures were claimed and
the religious fervour that gripped Ireland led to an influx of
thousands of pilgrims. The phenomenon of the 'Templemore miracles'
or 'bleeding statues' lasted for several weeks and an informal
ceasefire arose while the rebels, the police, military and civilian
population struggled to comprehend the surreal situation. With the
logistics of conducting the war disrupted by the flood of pilgrims,
the IRA stepped in. They interrogated Walsh and, with the direct
involvement of Michael Collins, planned to deter further
pilgrimages to Templemore. In due course, Walsh had left Ireland,
never to return, and the war resumed with an even greater degree of
ferocity. Here, John Reynolds charts the bizarre goings-on that
intersected the spiritual, social and martial fixations of early
twentieth-century Ireland based around a small town and a boy with
visions.
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