For most of December 1920, Thomas Hynes, quartermaster of the Galway IRA, was in Queen’s College Galway - today s NUIG - hiding from Crown forces, sleeping on top of bookshelves, and assisting in the making of grenades.
Limerick men killed in action after Mass - 100 years ago today!
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David Tobin, Glenbrohane and Thomas Murphy, Ballylanders, were killed by Crown Forces in Ballylanders on New Year’s Day 1921 );
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ONE HUNDRED years ago on New year’s Day two County Limerick men paid the ultimate price for Irish Freedom.
On January 1, 1921, Thomas Murphy, Ballylanders, and David Tobin, Glenbrohane, were killed by Crown Forces.
A non-political anniversary Mass was planned by the Tobin and Murphy families for this Friday in Glenbrohane church but it has had to be called off due to the new Covid guidelines.
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A short history of the many groups who ve claimed to be the IRA
Updated / Wednesday, 16 Dec 2020
16:06
Analysis: from the Neutral IRA to dalliances with the Nazis, many different organisations have used the IRA name over the years
Sinn Fein TD and chairperson of the Dáil s Committee on Public Accounts, Brian Stanley, received a barrage of criticism for insensitive commentary on the Provisional IRA attack near Warrenpoint in Co Down, in August 1979. The attack involved the detonation of two separate devices - the second to target the army unit deployed to assist victims of the first bomb - and killed 18 British soldiers, five of whom were still teenagers. Stanley subsequently apologised for his comments, and deleted the offending tweet and his social media account.
December 13, 2020
In June 1914 a young man with a
pistol killed the blameless Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his
equally innocuous spouse, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenburg.
On July 26 1914 the
King’s Own Scottish Borderers discharged their rifles at unarmed civilians in
Dublin, killing three and wounding thirty two.
Nine days later the
Regiment, together with the Crown Forces of Britain and her Empire were in
alliance with the young gunman against the peace of the world. The officer who
gave the order to fire had expressed his hatred of the Irish a few days before
proving it. Neither he nor his subordinates were punished.