#OnThisDay 1920 Sean Connolly and Sean MacEoin led IRA Volunteers from Longford in an attack on the RIC barracks at Drumlish. Faulty detonators prevented their 60lb mine from exploding. This was very lucky for them as they had only retreated 30 yards away to detonate. If the mine had exploded, they’d most likely have been killed the blast and there wouldn’t have been much left from the barracks either. The column had to pull back once a stalemate began. There were no casualties on either side.
#OnThisDay 1941 Irish Nationalist Jennie Wyse Power passed away. A member of the Ladies Land League, Vice President of Inghinidhe na hÉireann & Sinn Féin & a founding member of Cumann na mBan. The 1916 Proclamation was signed in her house on Henry St, Dublin.
#OnThisDay 1915 Sir Roger Casement spoke to Irish POW’s in Limburg, Germany. He was trying to recruit men for an Irish-Brigade to fight for Germany against the British. He was not well received. “All thought of enrolling the men, I fear, must be abandoned”. #Ireland #History #WW1
#OnThisDay 1923 Tom Barry & 65 AT-IRA men attack various Free State positions in Millstreet, Cork. Barry overruns 3 FS positions capturing 38 prisoners, 39 rifles & 1 Lewis gun but they fail in their main objective of Carnegie Hall & have to withdraw.
#OnThisDay 1921 Martial Law is declared by Lord Lieutenant General of Ireland, Viscount French to now include Clare, Kilkenny, Waterford & Wexford. Public meetings like marts, fairs football matches are banned. Anyone found with weapons will ‘Suffer Death’.
The Irish at War 