#OnThisDay 1922 Lt Col Buxton Smith took his own life in Clapham Common, London. Smith, a veteran of WW1 saw action on the Western Front & the Middle East, was the Company Commander of the Auxiliaries who were killed at Kilmichael.
#OnThisDay 1917 2nd Lieutenant Jasper Thomas Brett from Dún Laoghaire took his own life by stepping in front of a train. He fought with the 7th Dublin Fusiliers in Gallipoli but was discharged with shell shock.Brett had an international cap for @IrishRugby
#OnThisDay 1868 Constance Markievicz-née Gore Booth was born in London but grew up in Sligo. Markievicz was a President of Cumann na mBan, member of the ICA, fought in Easter Rising, was the first woman ever elected to Westminster & to hold a cabinet office.
#OnThisDay 1921 The East& Mid Limerick IRA ambushed a convoy of Black and Tans at Dromkeen, Limerick. Nine police were killed in the attack. Two others were executed afterwards by Maurice Meade, a WW1 veteran. Local houses were burned in following reprisals.
#OnThisDay 1919 Michael Collins & Harry Boland, after three attempts, broke Eamon De Valera, the President of Dáil Éireann, out of Lincoln Jail with the age old trick, a key in a fruitcake. Two other Irish men, Sean Milroy & Sean McGarry also escaped.
The Irish at War 