#OnThisDay 1920 Intelligence officer Lt. H.J. Hambleton (not in pic) was shot dead outside of Nenagh by local IRA. His last words were reportedly “You bastards, you got me at last”. His unit, the Northamptonshires burned several premises in Nenagh that night.
#OnThisDay 1922 IRA attacked the official residence of the Commander in Chief of the National Army General Richard Mulcahy in Portobello. A grenade was thrown but failed to detonate. The guard was reinforced & the attack was beaten back with the loss of one man.
#OnThisDay 1920 Sean MacEoin & Longford IRA men defended the village of Ballinalee from an 11 truck convoy of Black and Tans who aimed to burn it in a reprisal. The firefight began at 11pm on the 2nd & the Tans pulled out at 5am. The IRA had no casualties.
#OnThisDay 1920 The Black and Tans unleash a fury of reprisals in Kerry for over a week after the capture (&execution) of two policemen. The Siege of Tralee would see them fire on people leaving church,burning down the town hall, killing civilians, curfews etc.
#OnThisDay 1920 Eileen Quinn, a 23 year old mother of three (who was 7 months pregnant) from Gort, Galway was shot by passing Black and Tans while holding her 9 month old baby in her lap. Eileen was hit in the groin by a bullet & bled to death later that day.
The Irish at War 