Mr. Rory O'Connor.
| Summary: | Black and white lithographic print of Rory O'Connor who was executed [along with Richard Barrett, Liam Mellows and Joe McKelvey] by a firing squad on 8 December 1922 in reprisal for the anti-Treaty IRA's killing of Seán Hales, an Irish Free State T.D., done while Hales was leaving Dáil Éireann on 6 December 1922; another T.D., Pádraic Ó Máille was also shot and badly wounded in the incident. |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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[S.l. ;
s.n. ,
n.d. , ca. 1922-1923].
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| Notes: | Two copies of this item is held in the Department of Ephemera; transfer from the National Photographic Archive, Temple Bar; originally part of Irish Political Figures Photographic Collection (NPA POLF). Physical description: 1 lithographic print : b&w ill. ; 18 x 25.6 cm. Varying form of title: Rory O'Connor; member of G.H.Q. staff, I.R.A., from 1916 to his death. In command in Four Courts when attacked by the King's Irish. Taken prisoner in July and "executed" as a reprisal on the 8th of December, 1922. more |
