#OnThisDay 1920 Members of Dáil Éireann received a letter (printed on captured Dáil paper) saying “An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. Therefore a life for a life”. Griffith said that it proved the British Gov were inciting assassinations on Irish TDs.
#OnThisDay 1921 Three soldiers from the King’s Own Scottish Borderers were shot dead by the IRA near Castletownbere. They had been lured out for a walk by young women who disappeared just before the IRA showed up. The British Army burned 5 homes in reprisal.
#OnThisDay 1921 Sean Gaynor & the Tipperary IRA ambushed & killed DI Major Harry Biggs ‘A vicious type of Black and Tan’ & Miss Barrington who was wearing Biggs hat & was mistaken for Biggs. Across Ireland on 14 May 9 RIC & 8 Soldiers were killed in IRA attacks
#OnThisDay 1921 Paddy Daly & Emmet Dalton, disguised as British officers, killed two soldiers, captured an armoured car & tried to rescue Seán MacEoin from Mountjoy Jail. Their plan nearly worked but they were discovered & had to shoot their way of the prison.
#OnThisDay 1893 George “McIrish” McElroy was born in Dublin. McElroy was a RFC/RAF fighter ace with 47 kills, putting him as one of the top aces in the RAF at the time. In Dublin during the Rising, supposedly he refused to fire on his own countrymen & was transferred to another barracks in a quieter part of Ireland.
The Irish at War 