The Ballyturin House Ambush , Galway 1921

#OnThisDay 1921 The IRA ambush RIC D.I. Cecil Blake at Ballyturin House, Galway killing him, his wife & two other British officers. There was one survivor, Mrs. Gregory, the widowed daughter-in-law of famous folklorist & dramatist Lady Gregory of Coole Park.

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