The Dundalk Jail Break 1922

#OnThisDay 1922 The IRA blew up part of the exterior wall of Dundalk Jail into the exercise yard & freed over a hundred prisoners including future Chief of Staff of the IRA, Minister of Defence & Tánaiste Frank Aiken. He had only been in jail for 10 days.

Frank Aiken

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