The boy from Tallaghtduff
IRA volunteer Francis Hughes died on hunger strike this day 44 years ago on 12th May 1981 in the H Blocks of Long Kesh
Rest in Peace Francis
@ballsdotie "there's no LOI club near me" but I have no problem bundling the entire family into the car to drive to Carton House to get a selfie with tomorrow's opposition....
ON THIS DAY 1980 Giuseppe Conlon died in a British prison an innocent man. RIP
He died 5 years into a 12 year sentence handed down for something he didn’t do.
“Being Irish means they’re guilty, so we’re guilty one and all.”
100 years ago - Free Staters take 20 year old IRA Vol. Eugene Fitzgerald from his aunt's house outside Ardfert, North Kerry. After breaking his legs they shoot him on the roadside near McKenna's Fort where Roger Casement was captured in 1916. Eugene died days after the shooting.