British embassy was burned down
Thomas MacDonagh was born in Cloughjordan, Co Tipperary, to Joseph McDonagh, a schoolmaster, and Mary Parker.
One of Ireland’s patron saints.
6 of those shot dead with 17 years old
Crotty is probably best known to the general public for the ‘Crotty judgement’ of 1987
On THIS DAY
‘An Irishman in Antarctica’
‘The cost of food, fuel, lighting, and living expenses had all increased substantially and the Society are forced to make urgent…”
“The working man without bread has no choice”: It was the intervention of Cardinal Manning that was perhaps the key factor in the workers gaining an important victory.
Rosaleen Sands was with her son, Bobby, when he died Tuesday, May 5th 1981
Thomas Ashe trained as a teacher and worked as a school principal in Lusk, Co. Dublin.
He was viewed as a threat to authority, and would be closely watched.