First Sinn Fein Lord Mayor. Shot dead by members of the Royal Irish Constabulary during the Irish War of Independence. Photos sent in by member Kevin Cross. Kevin believes the monument is in a disgraceful condition,and looking at the photo's it is hard to disagree with him. The lettering has faded badly, the stone work is tarnished [...]
By Gerry Monks:
Captain Tadhg Kennifick, Cork No. 1 Brigade IRA, who was killed by the Free State Army on the 8th September 1922, while on the way to his mothers' funeral. He received a horrific death, under the orders of General Dalton, who had him dragged behind the back of a Free State truck, while his hands [...]
By : James Langton Monument – Erected by former comrades of Sean Hales. He was the O.C. Bandon Battalion of the IRA 1918-21, a TD in South Cork1921-22 and Brig General in the New Free State Army 1922. Another memorial once stood at this site due to a dispute over a grave in Christchurch graveyard. [...]
By Joe Healy: Manchester Martyrs monument pictured today (4/6/13) at Ladysbridge, near Castlemartyr, Co. Cork.
Seamus Quirke as a Lt. in the Fianna Eireann. Shot to death by British Auxiliaries in Galway, Sept. 9, 1920. H Co., 2nd Battalion, 1st Cork Brigade. A Black-and-Tan lorry driver named Krumm had spent the evening drinking. In one pub he boasted about his aim and insisted on setting up a row of bottles as targets [...]
3 rd wrest Cork Brigade The monument at Derrygallon, North Cork. Memorial to Edward Waters, Timothy Kiely and David Herlihy of Cork No. 2 Brigade, shot dead during a British army roundup on the Boggera Mountains near Nadd in February 1921. Memorial to Edward Waters, Timothy Kiely and David Herlihy [...]
Thomas Kent (Irish Tomás Ceannt; 1865 – 9 May 1916) was an Irish Nationalist court-martialled and executed following a gunfight with the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) on 2 May 1916, in the immediate aftermath of the Easter Rising. Thomas Kent's Grave, Cork. The Easter Rising Kent was part of a prominent nationalist family [...]