The Clock Is Still Going The Clock Is Still Going - Page 2 of 13 - Commemorating the Attack & Burning of the Dublin Custom House 25th May 1921

Posted on 13th September, 2021

Here at the blog the team has been delighted and honoured over the years to make the acquaintances of descendants ....

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Posted on 28th August, 2021

Lieutenant Patrick Brunton was a member of the Four Courts Garrison in 1922 following his resignation from the National Army. ....

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Posted on 24th August, 2021

Thanks to Ultan Courtney’s research into his 2014 book (note 1 below) we can tell about what must have been ....

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Posted on 14th July, 2021

We have not established definite Old IRA connections for six of the men arrested at the Custom House and interned ....

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Posted on 13th July, 2021

Only seventeen when arrested at the Burning, it is not 100% definitely known which IRA unit young Ryan belonged to. ....

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Posted on 5th July, 2021

One of the less well-known men arrested at the Custom House was Dubliner Joseph Murphy from 6 Bessborough Avenue on ....

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Posted on 5th July, 2021

We have not established definite Old IRA connections for six of the men arrested at the Custom House and interned ....

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Posted on 7th June, 2021

Over the last few years we have tried to tell the story of as many as possible of the men ....

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Posted on 5th June, 2021

On a sunny summer Wednesday 100 years ago, Dublin Brigade IRA carried out its biggest operation of the War of ....

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