#OnThisDay 1537 Silken Thomas Fitzgerald & his five uncles were hanged, drawn & quartered at Tyburn, London. Lord Deputy of Ireland, Lord Grey personally guaranteed Thomas’s safety & life would be spared if he surrendered in 1535. Thomas died, aged 24.
#OnThisDay 1972 Eleven funerals were held in Derry for most of the victims who died on Bloody Sunday. Meanwhile, in Dublin, thousands protested outside of the British Embassy & set it alight. A coffin effigy with 13 written on it was left at the door.
#OnThisDay 1921 During a robbery, local magistrate Robert Dixon was murdered by two Black and Tans, William Mitchell & Arthur Hardie in Dunlavin, Wicklow. Hardie took his own life the next day so Mitchell (pic) was charged and later hanged for this crime.
#OnThisDay 1921 Sean MacEoin & Longford IRA ambushed a patrol of 17 Auxiliaries at Clonfin. The IRA detonated a mine under an Auxie truck & after a firefight 4 Auxies were killed & 8 wounded. The Auxies eventually surrendered & MacEoin treated their wounded.
#OnThisDay 1921 IRA ambushed a 4 man RIC patrol in Drimoleague, Cork. Daniel O’Driscoll, the IRA leader shouted ‘Fire. Let them have it boys.’ Const Patrick O’Connor, a 22 year old WW1 Royal Navy veteran from Mayo, was killed & another constable wounded.
The Irish at War 