#OnThisDay 1922 Arthur Griffith passed away from a brain haemorrhage in Dublin. Griffith was a newspaper editor, founder of @sinnfeinireland, negotiator of the Treaty, politician, President of Dail Eireann and a family man.
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1914: John Holland Inventor of the modern Submarine passes away.
#OnThisDay 1914 John Holland, a teacher from Liscannor, Clare & the creator of the first modern submarine passed away in New Jersey. Both the @USNavy & the@RoyalNavy commissioned his design & named their first submarine “Holland”. #Ireland #History
Green vs Green at the Battle of Velletri 1744
#OnThisDay 1744 at the Battle of Velletri, Italy, the Irish Brigade of Spain face Austrian army led by Limerick man Count Max Browne. At first the Irish lose hundreds of men to Browne’s attack but the Irish hold & bayonet charge & push the Austrians from the field. #Ireland #History
1690 Sarsfield, Galloping Hogan and the Ballyneety Raid
#OnThisDay 1690 Patrick Sarsfield led a small cavalry force to intercept & destroy a Williamite supply train at Ballyneety, Limerick. He destroyed 16 enemy cannon & burned over 150 wagons full of food, arms & ammo. This helped lift the siege of Limerick sooner. #Ireland #History
1922 Sir Henry Wilson’s Assassins hanged in London
#OnThisDay 1922 Reginald Dunne (Left) & Joe O’Sullivan (Right), both #WW1 veterans & IRA members, were hanged in Wandsworth Prison for the murder of Chief of the Imperial General Staff of the British Army, Sir Henry Wilson. Wilson was blamed for pogroms against Nationalists in Ulster.
O’Sullivan had lost half his leg in the fighting at Ypres. It was this injury that kept them from making good their escape after they shot Wilson outside his home.
Some believe that Collins ordered the assassination but this is unlikely. Others believe Wilson’s death forced pressure of Michael Collins to use military force to remove the Anti-Treaty Republicans out of the Four Courts in Dublin.
The Irish at War 