The Clock Is Still Going The Men Archives

Was your relative jailed for the Burning of the Custom House?

Posted on 7th February, 2019

Some Custom House Fire Brigade Men in Kilmainham Most Commemoration Group members will have already seen the original Custom House Prisoner ....

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Christy Fitzsimons – Following in Wolfe Tone’s footsteps

Posted on 13th December, 2018

Christy pictured in Kilmainham Gaol Arrested at the Custom House, Christy had not been out for the Easter Rising but was ....

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John F. ‘Jackie’ Foy – From laying bricks to lobbing grenades.

Posted on 19th May, 2018

You might think, like the writer naively assumed, that tracing records for a man with a relatively unusual name like ....

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The Mystery of Tom Flood – The Harry Houdini of the Custom House!

Posted on 21st April, 2018

Many Readers will be familiar with the major part played by the Flood family during the revolutionary years. They paid a ....

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Can you help? Seán Burke, Dublin No. 1 ASU (Tan War)

Posted on 3rd April, 2018

Seán Burke was a member of No. Section 1, Active Service Unit, Dublin Brigade in 1921. I will cover his involvement ....

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Who was Specky Griffin?

Posted on 18th March, 2018

A news report appeared on page 5 of the Irish Independent newspaper on 25 January 1935: ‘… One of General Collins’ ....

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The Sevilles: Annie, Jim and Dick.

Posted on 15th February, 2018

On Easter Saturday 26 March 1921 at about 3pm, a bullet tore through the head of a 15 year-old girl ....

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Cyril James Daly – The Choirboy at the Custom House

Posted on 23rd December, 2017

Cyril is highlighted in this 1939 photo of the Dublin Brigade Council (Dublin Brigade Review). Every man at the Custom House ....

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Michael Love – Parades, Proposals, Prisons and Politics

Posted on 15th November, 2017

Imprisoned twice, a widower twice, a failed election candidate and dead at 52 – Michael Love’s life sounds kind of ....

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