#OnThisDay 1661 Three years after his death and on the twelfth anniversary of the death of King Charles I, Oliver Cromwell’s body was exhumed from its grave, dragged through the streets of London, hanged in chains at Tyburn & then thrown into a pit. His head was cut off and displayed on a pole on the roof of Westminster Hall until 1685.
#OnThisDay 1961 Major General John Francis O’Ryan passed away. O’Ryan was America’s youngest ever Division Commander in #WW1 & was a pioneer of ‘live fire’ drills for the military. He later became the New York City Police Commissioner. His father was from Ireland.
#OnThisDay 1918 The SS Cork, a Dublin Steam Packet owned ship was sank by two torpedoes from a German submarine, killing five crew & seven passengers, all from Dublin except one, a hostess from Liverpool. There were 30 survivors. (Pic not of the SS Cork).
#OnThisDay 1916 Lt. William Symes Drury 8th Bn Royal Dublin Fusiliers, from Rathgar, died during an officer’s training exercise in France. He threw a grenade with a faulty fuse which exploded immediately, hitting him with shrapnel & killing him instantly. #Ireland #History #WW1
#OnThisDay 1921 Sean Moylan & his Volunteers Column ambushed a RIC patrol at Tureengarriffe, Kerry killing two & wounding the rest. The patrol was lead by RIC Divisional Commissioner Major P.A. Holmes. Moylan cared for the wounded but Holmes died the next day.
The Irish at War 