Six IRA Volunteers executed in Mountjoy Jail 100 years ago
Remembering the Past - 100 years ago • (clockwise from top left) Patrick Doyle, Frank Flood, Bernard Ryan, Thomas Whelan, Patrick Moran and Thomas Bryan » Mícheál Mac Donncha 100 years ago the British regime executed six IRA Volunteers in Mountjoy Jail, Dublin. They were hanged on the morning of 14 March as tens of thousands of people, including their families, gathered outside the prison and as hundreds of thousands of workers staged a half-day general strike in protest. The six men were tried by the British Army at Field General Courts Martial in the Council Chamber of Dublin’s ...