I am to be executed at 8 a.m.

Dick Barrett, Joe McKelvey, Liam Mellows and Rory O’Connor were shot the next day, Dec. 8, 1922, at 8 a.m., explicitly as a reprisal for Sean Hales’s death, and as a warning. 

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