#OnThisDay 1920 Thomas Mulholland, Quartermaster for the Dundalk IRA was shot dead on Bridge Street during a raid by RIC Sergeant Bustard. The IRA ordered Bustard to leave or be killed so he retired & fled Dundalk in the middle of the night some days later.
#OnThisDay 1917 Cpl John Cunningham VC from Thurles died from his wounds suffered on the 12th. While severely wounded & under attack, he used all his ammo stalling the enemy & then he threw grenades at them to stall their advance. For this he got the VC.
#OnThisDay 1746 A selection of men from the Irish Brigade of France & Fitzjames’s Horse fought at the Battle of Culloden. They fought for Bonnie Prince Charles but were defeated. They covered the Highlanders’s retreat & lost a lot of men in the fight.
#OnThisDay 1941 About 180 Luftwaffe planes dropped 203 tons of explosives on Belfast killing over 900 people, causing the greatest loss of life in a single night during the Blitz, outside of London. Fire engines came from Dublin & Louth to quench the fires.
#Onthisday 1921 Auxiliary Company Commander Lt. John MacKinnon, a man with “the air of ruthless military efficiency’, was shot while playing golf in Tralee. IRA Vol. James Healy (a WW1 Vet) shot him with a rifle from up a tree as MacKinnon tee’d up a shot.
The Irish at War 