The Irish at War

Major General Robert Ross, “The Washington Arsonist” is killed in battle 1814.

September 12, 2019 theirishatwar

#OnThisDay 1814 Major General Robert Ross from Rostrevor, Co. Down, the man who burned the White House & US Capitol Building during the earlier stages War of 1812, was shot dead in battle outside of Baltimore. Legend has it, the fatal shot was by one of two teenage snipers. #Ireland #History

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Col. Tom Kehoe & Free State soldiers killed at Carrigphooka, Cork. 1922

September 11, 2019 theirishatwar

#OnThisDay 1922 Commandant Tom Keogh, who fought at Jacob’s Biscuit Mills in 1916, & 8 Free State soldiers were killed in a mine blast when their truck passed over a mine on a bridge at Carrigphooka, Cork. A republican prisoner was shot in retaliation in Dublin. #Ireland #History

Cromwell’s Massacre of Drogheda 1649

September 11, 2019 theirishatwar

#OnThisDay 1649 Cromwell’s troops enter Drogheda after surrender terms were refused and kill 2,500 men of the garrison, any clergy were ‘knocked on the head’ (i.e. beaten to death) & 800 civilians. Cromwell wrote ‘this is a righteous judgment of God upon these barbarous wretches’. #Ireland #History

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Dáil Éireann is outlawed by Westminster 1919

September 10, 2019 theirishatwar

#OnThisDay 1919 Dáil Éireann is proclaimed by the British as a dangerous and illegal organisation & is outlawed throughout Ireland . Some historians have stated that this resulted in an escalation of the military conflict as it cut off the main avenue of peaceful political protest.

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Red Hugh O’Donnell dies in Spain 1602

September 10, 2019 theirishatwar

#OnThisDay 1602 Red Hugh O’Donnell died in Simancas, Spain. O’Donnell was there to ask Phillip III to launch another invasion of Ireland following their defeat at Kinsale. O’Donnell was allegedly poisoned by James Blake, an English agent from Galway.

Although it was most likely a tapeworm which caused his demise. Agents and spies of old would often claim responsibility for something in which they had no hand.

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