#OnThisDay 1927 Constance Markievicz the nationalist, revolutionary, suffragette, politician & combatant in the Easter Rising died. Born in London & grew up in Lissadell House, Sligo the Countess was denied a state funeral due by the Free State Government. #Ireland #History
#OnThisDay 1789 Dublin man James F.X. Whyte, Count of Malleville was 1 of the 7 prisoners freed from the Bastille. An officer in the Irish Brigade, Whyte was imprisoned in 1781 due to ‘insanity’. He was paraded through Paris & put in an insane asylum the 15th.
#OnThisDay 1789 Parisians attacked the Bastille. Joseph Kavanagh from Wexford, commandeered 6 gun-laden wagons en route to the French Army’s camp at Metz & rode them through the streets of Paris crying “To the Bastille. Let us take the Bastille.” #Ireland #History #BastilleDay
#OnThisDay 1922 The @IrishTimes
wrote that William Shields, a promising footballer was shot by a sniper in Belfast on 25th May. Shields was one of 75 people killed in Belfast during that month alone. #Ireland #History #Belfast
The Irish at War 