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Trams were often stopped by British patrols and each man and woman searched. In the event that a tram was stopped by a Black and Tan patrol, where could a rebel ditch his weapon? Michael Collins hid his gun in this unusual place on Dublin's trams during the Irish War of Independence.
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The cover-up of horrific violence against women is evidence of misogyny in the nascent Irish State
Author Dermot McEvoy takes a look at the events leading up to Michael Collins' Bloody Sunday, one of the seminal events in Irish revolutionary history.
Comments Bloody Sunday occurred in Dublin on November 21, 1920. Beginning at 9 a.m. sharp, agents of Michael Collinsâ Squadâthe legendary âTwelve Apostlesââshot dead fourteen agents of the British Secret Service. Later that morning, in the confines of Dublin Castle, Dick McKee and Peadar Clancy, the Commandant and Vice-Command of the Dublin Brigades, were beaten to death along with Conor Clune, a young Gaelic Leaguer up from County Clare. How McKee and Clancy were apprehended by the British is one of the more sordid stories of Bloody Sunday. Read more The nig...