The Clock Is Still Going The Men Archives

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Posted on 23rd September, 2017

Jim Conroy in 1948 Jim Conroy When Jim was on a job for the IRA there was usually blood spilt. Remarkably despite ....

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Posted on 18th August, 2017

Bill Stapleton’s story is one tinged with some very good luck & some really bad luck. Bill was a man ....

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