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The 16 October 2020 coincides with the centenary of the death of Michael Fitzgerald

Brian Hanley 32 min read During July 1921 Count George Noble Plunkett, Dáil minister for foreign affairs, wrote a long letter to Éamon de Valera. In it Plunkett warned the Sinn Féin leader that republicans should be wary of too close a relationship with ‘the Jews’. Across Europe, Plunkett asserted, Jews had been a negative influence, because (1) they are, an...

Six men executed in Victoria Barracks in Cork City TAGS Cork, 1 March 1921 - Six Irishmen have been executed in Victoria Barracks in Cork. The men were shot by firing squad yesterday. Five of the six men – Thomas O’Brien, Daniel O’Callaghan, John Lyons, Timothy McCarthy and Patrick O’Mahony, all from Co. Cork – were found guilty of ‘levying war against his Majesty’, in an ambush on crown forces near Dripsey on 28 January 1921. The sixth man, Seán Allen was, in a separate inci...

℘ Joe McGarrity was éamon de Valera’s right hand man in America and was once described by poet Padraic Colum as “a gallowglass ready to swing a battleaxe with his long arms.” It was an apt description for the old warrior. McGarrity was born in Carrickmore, County Tyrone, in 1874. Legend has it that as a penniless 16-year-old he walked to Dublin, boarded a cattle boat to Liverpool disguised as a drover, and sailed to America on someone else’s ticket. He settled in Philadelphia and ma...

Mother and Baby Homes report: 9,000 children died amid high infant mortality rate Three-quarters of all children born in or admitted to Bessborough in 1943 died in infancy Tue, Jan 12, 2021, 15:00 The huge report, which runs to some 3,000 pages, is a scathing indictment of the institutions it examined. Taoiseach Micheál Martin says its findings have revealed a "dark, difficult and shameful chapter of very recent Irish history". Video: Pool/PA The Sean Ross Abbey in Roscrea, Tipperary. Photog...

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...