On Saturday 29 April, eve of the centenary of the 1923 IRA ceasefire, Sinn Féin in Ennis, County Clare, unveiled a refurbished plaque to three Volunteers executed in the Free State barracks 100 yea.
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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.