Margaret Keogh, First Civilian Casualty of the Easter Rising 1916

#OnThisDay 1916 Margaret Keogh, from Carlow, became the first civilian casualty of the Easter Rising. A nurse in South Dublin Union (now St. James’ Hospital), she was checking on patients during a lull in the fighting & was shot by two British soldiers. Some records have Margaret as a member of Cumann na mBan and therefore a combatant death, but she wasn’t.
Side note: Margaret was apparently related to Myles Keogh, the General Custer’s right hand man at the Battle of Little Bighorn fame.

For more, read here: https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/1916/the-victims/nurse-margaret-keogh-the-first-civilian-fatality-of-the-rising-34510459.html