Volunteer Seamus Quirke shot dead by RIC in Galway 1920

#OnThisDay 1920 Vol. Seamus Quirke was shot dead by the RIC while they were rioting in Galway after Constable Edward Krumm had been shot hours earlier. Quirke, a prominent republican, was taken from his lodgings & shot 11 times in the street.

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