The shot was fired at point blank range by Sean Culhane hitting
Swanzy, as he later claimed, behind the right ear and exiting on
the other side of his head between his ear and his eye. Almost
simultaneously Dick Murphy, the other Cork man, fired a volley at
Swanzy. As he fell further shots were fired into his body with
McCorley pausing to deliver the coup de grace.Many RIC officers
were killed during this period but the murders of Divisional
Commissioner Colonel Smyth and District Inspector Swanzy led to
unprecedented reprisals against the Catholic population in the
towns of Banbridge, Dromore and Lisburn.Lawlor traces the events
which led to serious sectarian rioting and the burning of Catholic
owned property over a period of three months in 1920 and details,
for the first time, the extent of the destruction and loss of life
in these towns. The sectarian violence in Belfast during 1920-1922
has been well documented but the scale of the violence in Belfast
was such that events which took place in other towns, while
mentioned, were never explored in detail. Lawlor highlights the
importance of Cork and the killing of Tomas MacCurtain in the
tragic events that later came to pass in the north.
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