#OnThisDay 1921 Captain Eileen McGrane had her courts-martial. McGrane was the first woman to be courts-martialled in the WoI. She was charged with High Treason following an Auxie raid on her flat, found arms & IRA intelligence documents.
Great thread below.
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#OnThisDay 1916 Sean Mac Diarmada, from Kiltyclogher, Leitrim was executed in Kilmainham Gaol for his role in the Easter Rising. Before his death he wrote;
“I feel happiness the like of which I have never experienced. I die that the Irish nation might live!”

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#OnThisDay 1916 James Connolly was taken from the State Apartments in Dublin Castle, taken to Kilmainham Gaol, tied to a chair & executed. Before he was shot Connolly said to his wife Lillie,
“Hasn’t it been a full life Lillie, and isn’t this is a good end?”
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9 May 1916 James Connolly's Court Martial was held in Dublin Castle as he lay in a bed, wounded. Nora, his daughter, two days later, managed to smuggle out a statement he made to the Court.

#OnThisDay 1943 Nineteen men & boys aged between 13 and 34 were killed when a floating sea mine detonated on the shore of Ballymanus, Donegal. The locals had tried to remove it from the rocks as the local coast watcher sought help form the Ordnance Corps.
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#OnThisDay 1886 Richard Mulcahy was born in Waterford. He fought with Thomas Ashe during the Easter Rising, Minister of Defence in the First Dáil, was IRA Chief of Staff during the War of Independence & became head of the National Army following Collins' death.
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#OnThisDay 1865 Jefferson Davis, the President of the Confederate States was captured by men of the 4th Michigan Cavalry whose commander (considered to be one of the best cavalry commanders) was Brevet Brigadier General Robert Horatio Minty from Westport, Mayo.
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The Book of Kells was in the news again this week so we couldn't resist quickly putting together an episode on this greatest symbol of Medieval Ireland. Splendid chat w/expert Dr Donncha MacGabhann on what makes this book so special & how it was created. open.spotify.com/episode/0HI6Y4…

#OnThisDay 1916 Thomas Kent was executed in Cork following a shootout with the RIC that left Kent's brother Richard & 1 RIC dead. In January he told a court;

“As a Volunteer, I’m prepared to defend my country to the last drop of my blood against all comers”.

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New article, a personal reflection on the recently launched UCC Ireland Civil War fatality project Andy Bielenberg Dr Helene O'Keeffe TheIrishHistoryShow theirishstory.com/2024/05/09/the…

#OnThisDay 1916 Con Colbert was executed in Kilmainham Gaol. He told Mrs. O'Murchadha that he was 'proud to die for such a cause. I will be passing away at the dawning of the day.' Colbert told the soldier to pin the napkin nearer to his heart & shook his hand. #Ireland #History

#OnThisDay 1916 Éamonn Ceannt was executed in Kilmainham Gaol. He wrote to his wife
'I die a noble death for Ireland’s freedom.'
He also penned
'Ireland has shown she is a nation. This generation can claim to have raised sons as brave as any that went before'.
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#OnThisDay 1916 Michael Mallin was executed in Kilmainham Gaol. He wrote before his death “I do not believe that our blood has been shed in vain.' To his brother, he wrote “I am dying in the hope that we have made Ireland a better Ireland for you to live in.
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#OnThisDay 1916 Seán Heuston was executed in Kilmainham Gaol. He wrote to his sister, a Dominican nun...'I have no vain regrets. Ireland shall be free. Let you do your share by teaching Ireland’s history as it should be taught.... Ireland shall be free.'
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#OnThisDay 1781 The Hibernia Regiment of Spain, led by Arturo O'Neill, helped capture the British held town of Pensacola during the American Revolutionary War. The Hibernians were some of the first to make ground, place artillery & take the defences.
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#OnThisDay 1915 The RMS Lusitania was torpedoed by U-20 (which initially took Casement to Ireland for the Easter Rising) 10 miles off the Irish coast, killing 1,198 people. She was also carrying millions of rounds of ammo & other war materiel.
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#OnThisDay 1905 Fr Peter Paul Cooney, from Roscommon died. Fr Cooney was chaplain to the 35th Indiana '1st Irish Regiment' during the American Civil War. Cooney was the longest serving Catholic chaplain during the war from 1861-1865, leaving for Notre Dame.
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#Otd 1908: #Sandycove 's Mary Molony rung a bell every time Churchill attempted to address the crowd at Dundee by-election, demanding he apologize for insulting remarks he had made about women's suffrage movement! “Who is the strongest — an Irish woman or Mr. Winston Churchill?”

W e had a good discussion here on the Plantation of #Ulster and subsequent settlement in the north of Ireland in the 17th century. With TheIrishHistoryShow

#OnThisDay 1981 Bobby Sands died in Long Kesh prison after 66 days on hunger strike. He & the other hunger strikers protested for special status as political prisoners rather than criminals. Sands was an elected MP at the time of his death. He was 27 years old. #Ireland #History