Liam Pilkington & IRA take Dromahair Barracks 1922

#OnThisDay 1922 Liam Pilkington, Anti-Treaty IRA captured Dromahair barracks in Leitrim. Disillusioned with the Civil War, he became a priest & served in Cape Town & Liverpool where he died in in 1977.

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