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The local studies section of the library contains numerous items of military interest. There are press cuttings, files and journal (especially in Breifne) articles on local involvement in the 1798 rebellion and the subsequent French landings in the west, as well as material on the Spanish Armada and the American Civil War. There is also a substantial amount of material on Leitrim and Longford men’s service in World War One. The collection also includes autograph books, internment orders and memoirs of the War of Independence and Civil War periods, especially dealing with the Selton Hill ambush of 1921 in which six IRA volunteers were killed.
Leitrim County Library
Ballinamore,
Co. Leitrim.