On Tuesday 17th July, Henry Joy McCracken was tried for treason and rebellion and hung in Belfast. Reporting the execution, the Belfast Newsletter states that: “…at five o’clock the prisoner was brought from the Artillery Barracks to the place of execution. Having been attended in private by a Clergyman, he was only a few minutes fromContinue reading ““…launched into eternity”: Belfast Newsletter on execution of Henry Joy McCracken”
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April 5th, 1942: Tom Williams and ‘legacy issues’
On Easter Sunday, 5th April, 1942, a unit from the Belfast Battalion’s C Company was to carry out a diversionary attack on the RUC on the Kashmir Road. The unit involved were to fire shots at one of the armoured cars that the RUC used to patrol nationalist districts, withdraw to a pre-arranged safe house, dump theirContinue reading “April 5th, 1942: Tom Williams and ‘legacy issues’”
September 6th 1940: execution of Tom Harte and 1916 veteran Paddy McGrath
On 6th September 1940, De Valera’s government had Patrick McGrath and Thomas Harte executed in Mountjoy Prison. The other prisoners heard McGrath and Harte being brought from their cells and marched away, then the volley of shots being fired. A commemoration was held inside the prison that morning by the remaining republican prisoners at whichContinue reading “September 6th 1940: execution of Tom Harte and 1916 veteran Paddy McGrath”
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