#OnThisDay 1848 Thomas Francis Meagher unveiled the Irish tricolour to a crowd at the Irish Convention in Dublin. “I trust that beneath its folds the hands of the Irish Protestant and the Irish Catholic may be clasped in generous and heroic brotherhood”.
#OnThisDay 1922 Rory O’Connor & 200 IRA men took over the Four Courts in Dublin. This was in open defiance of the Provisional Gov. & intended to provoke a reaction from British soldiers still in Ireland which would restart the war & reunite all republicans.
#OnThisDay 1920 British soldiers & RIC in Miltown Malbay Clare, fired into a crowd of civilians celebrating the release of Republican hunger strikers from Mountjoy. Three men were killed & several more were wounded including a 14 year old boy & a school girl.
#OnThisDay 1919 The Limerick Soviet began. Limerick was to be declared a ‘Special Military Area’ & workers needed to have a permit to get to&from work which was not feasible. The workers took over food production, published newspapers & printed their own money.
#OnThisDay 1922 The IRA shot Patrick ‘Cruxy’ O’Connor in New York City. O’Connor was believed to be a British spy who had given details to the British that resulted in the death of several IRA men. However, O’Connor survived the assassination attempt.
The Irish at War 