#OnThisDay 1921 Six IRA Volunteers were hanged by the British authorities in Mountjoy Prison. Thousands gathered & prayed on the street outside of the prison.
The deceased were:
Patrick Doyle
Frank Flood
Thomas Whelan
Patrick Moran
Thomas Bryan
Bernard Ryan.
#OnThisDay 1923 Seven IRA men were executed in different parts of Ireland. Three were shot in Wexford, two in Mullingar, one in Dublin and one in Cork (the only execution to take place in Cork during the Civil War). Pictured is James Parle (25) from Wexford.
#OnThisDay 1921 ‘‘An officer stated he was walking down Military Hill about 9:30 p.m. on the 13th March. When he got to Charleville Road, he heard a woman shouting, “Help, help.” He ran in the direction of the scream. He heard a shot fired, and when he got further on, he saw [the] accused [soldier] escorting a woman back. Her hair was rather dishevelled. He did not think she had a hat on. The [accused] sergeant said to [the] witness—“Look out; there’s a man with a gun at the corner. They had got hold of this woman.” Witness went back to the corner but didn’t find anything. He went back to [the] accused, who said the woman was on the ground, and that he told the man [Michael Joseph Murray] to put up his hands; that the man drew back and put his hand into his pocket, so that he ([the] accused) fired a round at the man. . . . Witness did not think he (accused) had killed the man. Next morning he heard about it [i.e, Murray’s death]. Witness reported the matter to the military police.’ A woman claiming to have been the victim of an assault by Murray gave evidence in favour of the accused soldier, and he was acquitted’.
#OnThisDay 1923 In Cahirciveen, Kerry, five IRA prisoners were taken from their ‘prison’ by soldiers of the Dublin Guard, tied to the barricade, shot in the legs & a mine detonated.
The dead were:
Michael Courtney
Eugene Dwyer
Daniel Shea
Willie Riordan
John Sugrue
#OnThisDay 1921 Kerry IRA ambushed a train carrying Auxiliaries at Ardfert station between Listowel and Tralee and killed Auxiliary Cadet Walter Falkiner MC (pic). The train driver was wounded in the ambush but still managed to get the train to Tralee.
The Irish at War 