#OnThisDay 1877 Michael O’Hanrahan was born in New Ross, Wexford. An Irish nationalist & author, O’Hanrahan was second in command to Thomas MacDonagh at Jacob’s Biscuit factory during the Easter Rising. He was executed for his part 4th May 1916. The second picture is his execution order.
#OnThisDay 1828 Major General Patrick Cleburne was born in Cork. He joined the British Army (as he failed the Trinity medical exams) but left soon after for America. He started the Civil War as a Private but soon rose to become the highest ranking Irish born soldier in either army during the Civil War. Though he fought for the Confederacy, Cleburne’s pushed the idea to arm the slaves of the south. This would have been enough to have any other man relieved of his post but Cleburne was too good of a fighter to be let go. Instead however, he was passed over in many promotions and was eventually killed in an ill-thought out charge at the Battle of Franklin 1864.
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#OnThisDay 1601 The oldest Saint Patrick’s Day parade took place in the Spanish Colony of St. Augustine, Florida, led by an Irish priest from Spain, Ricardo Artur. In 1737, in Boston, the first celebration took place in a prominent Irishman’s house. But in 1762 the oldest continuous parade took place in New York City by Irish soldiers in the British Army.
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#OnThisDay 1921 An Auxiliary Patrol, with an armoured car, on its way to raid an IRA HQ on Great Brunswick (Pearse) Street is ambushed. Two Auxies, two Volunteers & three civilians were killed & several of each group wounded. Two IRA Volunteers were captured and one of the them later hanged. The ambush was successful but the machine gun from the armoured car forced the flight of the IRA. The Auxiliaries found nothing of worth in the IRA HQ.
Along with the executions that morning, it was the bloodiest day in Dublin since Bloody Sunday.
The Irish at War 