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A TIMELINE sign that commemorates three historic anniversaries was unveiled at Dunmanway Community Hospital on Tuesday afternoon.The significance of the sign, according to Michelle O’Mahony, who was the history consultant behind the research, design and compilation of the proje ....
Local priest murdered by Auxiliary cadet near Dunmanway TAGS Dunmanway, 18 December 1920 - An Auxiliary cadet has been arrested for the murder of the popular Dunmanway parish priest, Canon Thomas Magner, 73, and Tadhg Crowley, a 24-year old farmer’s son. Both men were shot dead on the afternoon of 15 December. According to an official report from Dublin Castle, Cadet Vernon Hart had been in charge of 30 Auxiliaries who left Dunmanway in two lorries and were en route to Cork where they planned to attend the funeral of one of their comrades who was recently killed in an ambush at Dillon’s Cross in Cork. Witness testimony suggests that Cadet Hart had been drinking heavily and that his judgement may have been impaired. ....
One of three Roman Catholic priests to be shot dead during the War of Independence has been remembered at a special service in Dunmanway in Co Cork today. Seventy-one-year-old Canon TJ Magner and 19-year-old Tadgh Crowley were both murdered by Auxiliaries in the town on 15 December 1920. Their murders marked a low in the cycle of violence, bloodshed and reprisal in the aftermath of the Burning of Cork, according to Dr Mervyn O Driscoll, head of the School of History at UCC. K Company, who had been centrally involved in the rampage of looting and burning through Cork City centre on 11/12 December, were moved to Dunmanway to defuse tensions but the violence only continued with the double murder. ....