#OnThisDay 1920 IRA Vol Thomas Whelan was arrested & to be charged for the shooting of Captain Baggallay on Bloody Sunday, despite eyewitnesses seeing him at Mass at the time of the shooting. Whelan was charged & hanged in March 1921. He was 22.

#OnThisDay 1920 IRA Vol Thomas Whelan was arrested & to be charged for the shooting of Captain Baggallay on Bloody Sunday, despite eyewitnesses seeing him at Mass at the time of the shooting. Whelan was charged & hanged in March 1921. He was 22.