#OnThisDay 1916 Sir Roger Casement landed at Banna Strand, Kerry via the German submarine U-19. Suffering from an illness, Casement was too weak to travel & was arrested within a few hours at McKenna Fort. His plans to cancel or to arm the Rising had failed.
#OnThisDay 1920 Detective Constable Laurence Dalton was shot & mortally wounded by members of Collins’s Squad in Broadstone, Phibsboro. Dalton had recently moved to the DMP’s “G” Division and was suspected of identifying & arresting several IRB men.
#OnThisDay 1915 Lt. George Roupell, from Tipperary, was company commander when he was hit by enemy artillery. Wounded several times, Roupell stayed at his post, repelled an attack, returned to HQ & brought back reinforcements. For this he got the Victoria Cross.
Madeline ‘Dilly’ Dicker ‘(who played piano for silent movies), frequently hid in a wickerwork mail basket on the mailboat, emerging in a sorter’s uniform & stuffing letters destined for the British secret service into her undergarments’ & returned them to IRA HQ.
Moya Llewelyn Davies allowed her 40 acre mansion in Killester to be used as an IRA arms dump & safe house. Moya would also drive these guns around the country to where they were needed by the IRA. As she was very wealthy, she was rarely stopped by Crown Forces.
The Irish at War 