Mae Burke (left), from Cork/Limerick boundary was one of the four women that escaped from Mountjoy on Halloween 1920. Mae helped organise a football match in the prison as a distraction, made their way out to the yard & used a rope ladder to climb to freedom.
Linda Kearns (right)a nurse from Sligo, helped the wounded during the Rising. In WoI, she moved guns, ammo & intel from Sligo to IRA HQ. Arrested in 1920, beaten, jailed in England & Mountjoy, Kearns escaped. Later elected to the Seanad but returned to nursing.
#OnThisDay 1923 At Ballyseedy Kerry, nine IRA prisoners were tied to a land mine by Free State soldiers & the mine detonated. Eight were killed, some finished off by rifle fire but one man, Stephen Fuller, was blown clear & survived. A dark day in our past.
#OnThisDay 1921 The Mayor of Limerick George Clancy (Right) & Ex-Mayor Michael O’Callaghan (Left) were shot dead in their homes by Crown Forces. A third man, Joe O’Donoghue was also shot 18 times & his corpse left on (now called) O’Donoghue Avenue in Janesboro.
#OnThisDay 1848 The Irish tricolour was flown for the first time in public. Thomas F. Meagher flew it in Waterford city. ‘I trust that beneath its folds the hands of Irish Catholics & Protestants may be clasped in generous & heroic brotherhood’.
PS: The flag was also raised in a procession in Enniscorthy commemorating the Battle of Vinegar Hill.
The Irish at War 