The 100th anniversary of the murder of two Limerick mayors on this day, 7 March, in 1921 is being marked by the city council and the GAA.
At around the same time, his predecessor as mayor, Michael O'Callaghan, was also shot dead at his home nearby. Earlier that day, another volunteer, 24-year-old Joseph O'Donoghue, who was from Westmeath but living and working in Limerick, was taken from the house he was lodging in at Janesboro and also shot dead.
"Thousands of people came onto the streets of Limerick as their coffins passed, and the funerals were attended by virtually all of the lord mayors and mayors of towns and cities across the country," he said. Two of Limerick's most popular riverside streets, Clancy Strand and O'Callaghan Strand, are now both named after the murdered mayors.George Clancy, great grandnephew of George Clancy, said the name had been in the family for seven generations, and they were very proud to carry it on.
can’t bring themselves to say that the two Limerick mayors murdered 100 years ago today were members of Sinn Fein.
HalloranCathy Do you have further details of the 'virtual evening of historical talks'? How and when could I watch or listen to that?
Show the house with the bullet holes ffs
Good job the two cretins didn't get their way
And certain Fine Gaelers wonder why Ireland didn't stay and operate from the inside like Scotland. The cruelty of the British in Ireland in the early 20C was not visited on Scotland
Horrific ..
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