#OnThisDay 1920 Vol. Seamus Quirke was shot dead by the RIC while they were rioting in Galway after Constable Edward Krumm had been shot hours earlier. Quirke, a prominent republican, was taken from his lodgings & shot 11 times in the street.
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Tom Kettle, poet & politician dies at the Battle of Ginchy 1916
#OnThisDay 1916 Tom Kettle, the poet, Home Rule politician, barrister & soldier died at the Battle of Ginchy when he & the Royal Dublin Fusiliers attacked the German-held village. Ginchy was taken by men of the 16th Irish Division but at great cost.
Dr Dorothy Stopford Price
#OnThisDay 1890 Dr Dorothy Stopford Price was born. Stopford joined Cumann na mBan & cared for wounded IRA Volunteers in Cork during the War of Independence. Later in life she introduced the BCG vaccine & helped eradicate tuberculosis in Ireland.
Ceannt Station Galway shootout 1920
#OnThisDay 1920 Volunteer John Mulvoy was shot dead by Black and Tan Constable Edward Krumm who had been drinking heavily that night. Krumm was also shot in this affair at Galway train station (Ceannt Station). The RIC rioted upon hearing the news. #Ireland #History
The Second Battle of Sabine Pass 1963
#OnThisDay 1863 At the Second battle of Sabine Pass, Galway-man Lt. Richard Dowling delivered one of the most one-sided victories to the Confederate Army during the American Civil War. Dowling & his 47 Irish-Texans (Jefferson Davis Guards) prevented 22 Union ships & 5000 troops from landing in Texas. They did this by managing to control the waterway with six old smoothbore cannon and well trained gunnery marksmanship, pounding the ships as they came into range. They sank two ships, the Clifton and Sachem, took 350 prisoners and large supplies of arms and ammunition.
They were awarded the Jefferson Davis Medals and were the only medals of honor issued by the Confederate government.
However, this victory was neither tactically nor strategically advantageous to the CSU once the Union took control of the Mississippi.
The Irish at War 