The Clock Is Still Going The Clock Is Still Going - Page 2 of 8 - Commemorating the Attack & Burning of the Dublin Custom House 25th May 1921

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 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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Posted on 13th July, 2019

Angela ‘Angie’ Kirwan (née Rooney) RIP was a well-liked member of the Group who sadly passed away on 28 December ....

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Posted on 19th June, 2019

Custom House officials watch the fire. None of the men covered below are in this photo (Irish Independent, 27 May ....

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Posted on 8th June, 2019

Paddy Flanagan, does the name ring a bell? To most people reading this it may not. If I said Frank ....

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