Major Haig ordered them to 'prepare to fire', whereupon they the fired
indiscriminately, point blank, at the people in the street. Four people
were killed and thirty-seven wounded. All Ireland seethed with
indignation . . . This new edition of Dublin's Fighting Story with an
introduction by Diarmaid Ferriter features stories and reports from
every aspect of the War of Independence, from the formation of the
Fianna Éireann and the Volunteers, through the Great Dublin Strike and
Lock-out in 1913 and the 1916 Rising to the death of Seán Treacy in a
bloody street shoot-out, the triumph and tragedy of Bloody Sunday and
the burning of the Customs House. Dublin's Fighting Story offers the
perspective of the eye witnesses and fighting men themselves to the
struggle for independence in Dublin.