During this time he went on hunger strike for two weeks. He was arrested in October 1923 and was sent to Newbridge Internment Camp, County Kildare where he was interned for 15 months. He took part in two ambushes at Whitefort, Killurin where he was attached to Bob Lambert’s Flying Column. They captured a Lewis gun, 15 rifles and several rounds of ammunition. He was involved in an attack on the Free State outpost at Ferrycarrig in August 1922 in which one soldier was killed and several wounded. He was a quarry worker who had access to explosives and set a charge on Newtown Bridge, blowing it up and also took part in the Killurin Ambush.
The only way the Tans could remove them was to cut the wires down. Lorraine discovered from the national military archives that Tom’s other military activities included hanging flags over telegraph wires crossing the River Slaney. Later the Glynn/Barntown company merged with Taghmon under the command of Captain Bill O’ Brien. They also set fire to the RIC barracks in Killurin which the RIC had left. The company dug trenches, felled trees for road blocks and transferred arms from Murrintown to Glynn.
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