Brigadier Seamus Devins, my mother's cousin, was among "Noble Six," as they've become to be known, who were killed by Free State forces in Co Sligo in 1922.
By mid-September 1922 the Republican forces were on the retreat throughout Ireland and were reverting to rural guerrilla tactics while the Free State controlled the cities and towns.
Arthur Joseph Griffith was born at 61 Upper Dominick Street, Dublin, son of Arthur Charles Griffith, printer, and Mary Whelan. He attended the local Christian Brothers school and began work as an o.
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