‘The IRA was formed in my grandad’s sitting room. He never told us’

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Victor Fagg, ‘a Protestant IRA man’, played host to a significant meeting 50 years ago - only now revealed in a BBC documentary

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a few years later and “was as a member of the Guard of Honour when the bodies of 20 republican soldiers executed by the Free State Army throughout its western command were handed over to relatives and comrades at the main gate of Athlone Barracks in October 1924”.

My grandfather was one of very few Protestants interned in the Curragh in 1940 and in 1943 he converted to Catholicism when he married Una Daly who was herself a captain in Cumann na mBan.Victor Fagg was well respected in the midlands where he operated the agricultural store and was secretary of the co-operative committee. My grandparents loved horses and were involved with the Glasson Farmers Hunt and Victor was part of the Athlone Show committee for many years.

Victor Fagg died in on March 6th 1988, aged 81. He received a republican funeral, with a tricolour draped across his coffin in the Catholic side of Cornamagh Cemetery.

Morgan Fagg, as a child, pictured with his grandmother Una Fagg outside the Athlone farmhouse. Photograph: Supplied by Morgan Fagg

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