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Joe Griffin – Hidden Intelligence Man, Forgotten Patriot
Posted on 31st December, 2020
You could say Joe Griffin lived up to the Cute Kerryman tag. He kept his real identity to himself and ....
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Paddy Sharkey – Dad’s Lunch Basket Sparked the Ashtown Ambush
Posted on 19th December, 2020
A chance mention of a household chore for Custom House Man Patrick Sharkey set in motion a famous Irish assassination ....
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No Country for…. Richard Downes – in James Connolly’s footsteps
Posted on 12th December, 2020
Books and articles have been written about many Old IRA personalities. But uniquely a 2004 novel used the former address ....
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No Country for…. Bob Halpin – A String of Second Chances
Posted on 28th November, 2020
Of the Custom House Men who left these shores, Robert Halpin settled far from his fellow Old IRA emigres, in ....
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Paddy Harold – A Rebel at the Burning
Posted on 14th November, 2020
Funny how small the world can be. Details of life after the Burning and the ultimate fate of this Custom ....
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No Country for…. Michael Duggan – Leave Ireland or Die!
Posted on 27th October, 2020
The lads in 500 NCR gave Michael an inscribed gold pocket watch when he had to leave Ireland in 1927. ....
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Volunteers or Unlucky Civilians? Part 2 – James Angleton
Posted on 26th October, 2020
We have not established definite Old IRA connections for six of the men arrested at the Custom House and interned ....
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Volunteers or Unlucky Civilians? Part 1 – William Adderley
Posted on 14th October, 2020
We have not established definite Old IRA connections for six of the men arrested at the Custom House and interned ....
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Centenary – Raid on the Custom House, 1920.
Posted on 15th August, 2020
It may not be widely known that the Custom House was a War of Independence target before the Burning. In ....
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