Seán MacDiarmada Executed in Kilmainham Gaol 1916

#OnThisDay 1916 Sean Mac Diarmada, from Kiltyclogher, Leitrim was executed in Kilmainham Gaol for his role in the Easter Rising. Before his death he wrote “I feel happiness the like of which I have never experienced. I die that the Irish nation might live!”

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