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Bloody Sunday occurred in Dublin on November 21, 1920. Beginning at 9 a.m. sharp, agents of Michael Collinsâ Squadâthe legendary âTwelve Apostlesââshot dead fourteen agents of the British Secret Service.
Later that morning, in the confines of Dublin Castle, Dick McKee and Peadar Clancy, the Commandant and Vice-Command of the Dublin Brigades, were beaten to death along with Conor Clune, a young Gaelic Leaguer up from County Clare. How McKee and Clancy were apprehended by the British is one of the more sordid stories of Bloody Sunday.
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The night before Bloody Sunday, McKee and Clancy were meeting with Michael Collins at Vaughanâs Hotel on Parnell Square to go over details of the morrowâs actions. Collins, always the perfect Pimpernel, slipped away unnoticed as McKee and Clancy started back to their bed-for-the-night at #36 Lower Gloucester (now renamed Seán MacDiarmada) Street in Dublinâs famed âNighttown.â