Harry Boland Fatally Wounded in Skerries 1922

#OnThisDay 1922 Harry Boland, an Easter Rising veteran & a prominent Anti-Treaty politician was shot by Free State soldiers in the Grand Hotel, Skerries & died days later. Though he knew his killers, he would not give their names to prevent retribution.

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