#OnThisDay 1921 Vincent Fovargue, an ex-IRA intelligence officer was found dead on a golf course in England, executed by the IRA (ex-WW1 soldiers Reginald Dunne (Left) & Joe O’Sullivan) for being a British spy. They would also killed Sir Henry Wilson in 1922.
#OnThisDay 1920 The IRA burn down more than 300 evacuated RIC barracks in rural & isolated places around Ireland. They also burn down almost 100 income tax offices. This was the largest single organised mobilisation of Volunteers during the War of Independence.
#OnThisDay 1918 Michael Collins was charged for making a seditious speech in Longford &was detained in Sligo Gaol for three weeks. He called the trial a “farce” & “I do not enter into bail with blackguards &tyrants”. He later paid the £40 bail & went on the run.
#OnThisDay 1914 Cumann na mBan was established in Wynn’s Hotel, Dublin. Their chief aims were to:
1: Advance the cause of Irish liberty
2:Organise Irish women in the furtherance of that objective
The role they played was vital in achieving Irish independence.
#OnThisDay 1922 Six civilians were murdered by the RIC in Belfast after a constable was shot dead. Ex-sailor Joe Walsh’s head was smashed in with a sledgehammer & his 7 y/o son shot dead (pic). William Spallen (70) who’d buried his wife that day was shot dead.
The Irish at War 