The Custom House Raid of May 1921 by the Dublin Brigade was an unusual operation in the War of Independence, marking one of the few instances of a large scale operation by IRA standards. Casualties and prisoners lost were relatively high.
Several questions arise;
Was the operation a tactical/strategic failure?
Was it initiated at the insistence of Dev in order to provide "legitimacy" in his eyes by engaging in a conventional military operation?
Was the destruction of the many millions of files that was later to prove such an obstacle to the new state deliberate? Why else was the building chosen, seeing as it wasnt a major military/police installation, unlike Dublin castle or similar buildings.
Several questions arise;
Was the operation a tactical/strategic failure?
Was it initiated at the insistence of Dev in order to provide "legitimacy" in his eyes by engaging in a conventional military operation?
Was the destruction of the many millions of files that was later to prove such an obstacle to the new state deliberate? Why else was the building chosen, seeing as it wasnt a major military/police installation, unlike Dublin castle or similar buildings.
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