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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. ....

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