The Clock Is Still Going The Men Archives

Posted on 3rd December, 2022

William Donegan was one of the pre-Truce IRA men who went on to confront several later incarnations of the organisation. ....

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Posted on 18th November, 2022

His name is on the Prisoner List but if you look for it in familiar Kilmainham photos and autograph books, ....

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Posted on 6th November, 2022

It’s unlikely that Michael O’Kelly was the original author of a general report on the Burning, but he used it ....

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Posted on 3rd August, 2022

Christopher Thomas Kilmurry has been almost forgotten as a Custom House Man. So much so that this writer has omitted ....

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Posted on 28th June, 2022

A heads up from the start – this is not intended as a detailed account of the opening conflict of ....

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Posted on 1st June, 2022

Most of the tumultuous month of June 1922 was dominated by politics. But it ended in military conflict with anti-Treaty ....

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Posted on 30th April, 2022

Here we look at some of the men involved in the Burning as they featured in events in May 1922. ....

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Posted on 2nd April, 2022

Even before the Treaty was ratified, IRA members all over the 32 counties had to decide yes or no. In ....

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Posted on 18th March, 2022

This Custom House man was one of the midlands Volunteers who claimed to have struck the first blow in the ....

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