The Clock Is Still Going The Men Archives

Posted on 18th January, 2020

The next emigrant Custom House Man we will look at had a second surprising claim to fame, of a sort. Republican ....

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Posted on 27th December, 2019

Three themes seem to recur in Phil’s story – Christmas time, railways and wars involving England. His life began and ended ....

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Posted on 13th December, 2019

We continue our look at the Custom House Fire Brigade men who emigrated after the Burning with a Fingal man ....

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Posted on 5th December, 2019

Part 1: Background and Context Like so many other Irish people, some Old IRA members took the well-worn path of emigrants ....

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Posted on 31st October, 2019

At the age of 17 IRA Engineer Dan Rooney took part in the Burning. Many decades later he told an old ....

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Posted on 13th October, 2019

Most of us interested in the War of Independence look back at the Old IRA with respect for teak-tough men. ....

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Posted on 28th September, 2019

Following the early deaths of Custom House men Patrick Reilly, Tom Kehoe and George Gray recounted elsewhere on the site, ....

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Posted on 7th September, 2019

ASU Men in Kilmainham (Names listed in text below) Readers may have seen how Patrick Reilly and Tom Kehoe became the first of the ....

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Posted on 2nd August, 2019

Patrick Reilly, Tom Kehoe, George Gray and John ‘Spivis’ Dwyer – all dead within five years of their arrest at the ....

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