Anti-Treaty IRA burn Sligo Train Station 1922

#OnThisDay 1923 Fifty Anti-Treaty IRA mined, doused in petrol & then burnt down Sligo train station. They also badly damaged seven engines & forty carriages which cost £80,000. One of the trains smashed through the goods’ yard & ended up in the harbour. #Ireland #History

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