#OnThisDay 1921 Sean Moylan & his IRA column ambushed RIC Divisional Commissioner Major-General P.A. Holmes at Tureengarriffe, Kerry. After a firefight, Moylan ensured the worst wounded RIC men were cared for, but despite this, Holmes died the next day in Cork.
#OnThisDay 1921 A British Army unit was tipped off of an IRA column laying in ambush outside Dripsey, Cork. The British captured 10 men, five of whom were later executed. The tip off came from a local Unionist, Mrs Mary Lindsay, who in turn was executed.
Mrs Mary Lindsay, however, also sent for the local priest, Fr. Shinnick, to warn the IRA men too. Fr. Shinnick had previously denounced the IRA so his warning was not heeded by Frank Busteed & his men. Lindsay & her driver James Clark were executed. Their graves were never found.
Frank Busteed and IRA
Mrs Mary Lindsay
#OnThisDay 1874 Dr Kathleen Lynn was born in Mayo. Lynn was the Irish Citizens’ Army Chief Medical Officer during the Easter Rising & carried the Plough & the Stars flag to the GPO. She set up St Ultan’s hospital which championed the BCG vaccine for children.
#OnThisDay 1923 Patrick Geraghty O/C Offaly I Brigade (Top pic) & Joseph Byrne Adjutant (Bottom Pic) were executed by the Free State in Portlaoise. Geraghty was caught with a pistol but Byrne was unarmed but was executed on trumped up charges. This was to demoralise Offaly IRA.
#OnThisDay 1873 Alexander Young was born in Clarinbridge, Galway. Young joined the British Army &during the Boer War he singlehandedly charged some 20 enemy, shot one & captured their leader Commandant DJ Erasmus. For this, Young was awarded the Victoria Cross.
The Irish at War 