#OnThisDay 1922 Cathal Brugha, though surrounded & outmanned, attacked Free State forces with his pistol. Brugha, who had been wounded multiple times during the Easter Rising & survived, ran out of the hotel that the Anti-Treaty forces were holed up in on to what is now Cathal Brugha Street, and was hit in the leg creating a four inch hole & died two days later.
Linda Kearns held his severed artery in between her fingers while they transported Brugha to hospital. Her medical care temporarily saved his life.
The Irish at War 