#OnThisDay 1867 The ‘Manchester Martyrs’ were publicly hanged outside of Salford Gaol in front of a crowd of 10,000 people. William Allen, Michael Larkin, & Michael O’Brien were executed for the death of a policeman during a rescue of two incarcerated Fenians.
#OnThisDay 1963 John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. Kennedy studied in Harvard, was a senator for Massachusetts, won a Pulitzer Prize, was a WW2 vet who saved his crew after being sank.
#OnThisDay 1920 Captain Paddy McCarthy, No.2 Cork Brigade was killed when they ambushed Black and Tans, who had been terrorising the locals in Millstreet, Cork. McCarthy was one of the escapees, along with Austin Stack, from Strangeways Prison the previous year.
#OnThisDay 1920 Peadar Clancy, Dick McKee & Conor Clune were arrested, taken prisoner in Dublin Castle, tortured & shot while ‘trying to escape”. McKee was OC Dublin Brigade & Clancy Vice Commandant, but Clune was not an IRA volunteer.
Peadar Clancy
Dick McKee
#OnThisDay 1920 Auxiliaries & RIC fired into the crowd at Croke Park. In ninety seconds, 14 people were killed including Tipp footballer Michael Hogan & three boys aged 10, 11 &14. Jane Boyle 26, due to be married 5 days later, was also killed.
The dead are:
Jane Boyle (26), Dublin
James Burke (44), Dublin
Daniel Carroll (31), Tipperary (died 23 November)
Michael Feery (40), Dublin
Michael ‘Mick’ Hogan (24), Tipperary
Tom Hogan (19), Limerick (died 26 November)
James Matthews (38), Dublin
Patrick O’Dowd (57), Dublin
Jerome O’Leary (10), Dublin
William Robinson (11), Dublin (died 23 November)
Tom Ryan (27), Wexford
John William Scott (14), Dublin
James Teehan (26), Tipperary
Joe Traynor (21), Dublin
The Irish at War 