Munster Munster, with the Munster Football Association governing a number of aspects of the game in the province. Four Munster clubs play in the League of Ireland; Cork City F.C., Limerick FC and Waterford United in the League of Ireland Premier Division, and Cobh Ramblers in the First Division. The Irish language, or more specifically Munster Irish, is spoken as a first language in Gaeltachtaí (Irish speaking areas) in a number of areas in the province. This includes West Kerry ("Corca Dhuibhne"), South Kerry ("Uíbh Ráthach"), West Cork ("Múscraí"), south-west Cork ("Oileán Cléire"), and parts of Waterford ("Gaeltacht na Rinne" or
Irish Civil War to defeat regular forces armed with artillery and armour. The only real conventional battle during the Free State offensive, the Battle of Killmallock, was fought when Free State troops advanced south from Limerick. Government victories in the major towns inaugurated a period of guerrilla warfare. After the fall of Cork, Liam Lynch ordered Anti-Treaty IRA units to disperse and form flying columns as they had when fighting the British. They held out in areas such as the western part of counties Cork and Kerry in the south, county Wexford in the east and counties Sligo and Mayo in the west.