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Gormanston tower and approach is still active, the tarmac runway
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Internment camp was then built in Gormanston to house the vast numbers of Republican prisoners that were captured by the Irish Free State. The Internment camp was under the command of Commandant Morken. The first prisoners to be interned in the camp arrived on 9 September 1922 and there were
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as a sub-depot for the training of new recruits, and as well as a despatch centre to send Black and Tans all over the country. The officers were responsible for a policy of drunken violence beating up local communities. Andy Cope, deputy of the
British commander-in-chief in Ireland, General
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which started on 28 June 1922. Gormanstown then became the
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