The Clock Is Still Going The Clock Is Still Going - Page 3 of 12 - Commemorating the Attack & Burning of the Dublin Custom House 25th May 1921

Posted on 25th January, 2021

While history may have forgotten Thomas Bates, he was accorded military honours at his funeral 65 years ago. His contribution ....

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Posted on 20th January, 2021

He grew up on a street named after an English county and went on to live and die in another ....

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Posted on 15th January, 2021

From rural Cavan to the City That Never Sleeps via Dublin, Liverpool and Buenos Aires sounds like an interesting journey. ....

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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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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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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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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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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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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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