On Thursday, 22 August 2007, Naas Local History Group in conjunction with Lord Edward’s Own Re-enactment Group from Monasterevin staged a re-enactment of the burning of Boushell’s. Political Unrest in Kildare 1913-1994’ I was told that the Black and Tans were searching for Jimmy White, a local volunteer, who lived across the road beside Haydes shop and Boushells was burnt down in mistake for Whites.įrank Lawler, whose father, Peter, was an IRA officer at the time, has since told me that Boushells was singled out because the owner, Ben Boushell, had cleared all the shoes out of his front window except for a black shoe and a tan shoe which he left on display to annoy the Black and Tans, who must have taking the insult as intended and burnt down the shop.
While researching this event for a book titled ‘On the One Road. Subsequently, a party of Black and Tans arrived in Kill, wrecked Broughall’s pub, stole a large quantity of drink, assaulted a few locals and then drove into Naas where they burnt down Boushells Boot Shop beside the Leinster Leader offices. On Augan ambush on a police patrol at Greenhills, Kill, by local IRA unit left two RIC men dead.
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