Maggie Dunne was one of three Cumann na mBan conflict-related casualties during the Civil War. She was shot at her home in Adrigole, writes Alan McCarthyWHEN the first artillery shell landed on Dublin’s Four Courts on June 28th 1922, it brought into sharp focus the fissures tha
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As she was being taken by IRA volunteers on a donkey and cart along a boreen towards the place of execution, Bridget Noble was in great distress and cried out for someone to save her.
It was dark, early on a morning in March 1921, when people in a remote area of west Corkâs Beara Peninsula heard the anguished cries of the terrified woman who was facing death as an informer.
This harrowing account emerged as I interviewed Beara people for a book about Bridget Noble, who was abducted and killed during the War of Independence. This year marks the 100th anniversary of her death.