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#OTD in 1919 – Dan Breen and Seán Treacy rescue their comrade Seán Hogan from a Dublin-Cork train at Knocklong, Co Limerick; two policemen guarding him are killed.
#OTD in 1919 – Dan Breen and Seán Treacy rescue their comrade Seán Hogan from a Dublin-Cork train at Knocklong, Co Limerick; two policemen guarding him are killed.
In one of the most dramatic events in the Irish War of Independence, a handcuffed young Tipperary volunteer, Seán Hogan, was rescued from a train while sat between four armed members of the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC). Two RIC were killed in the attack and a number of the volunteers wounded. The rescue was undertaken by three of Hogan’s comrades from the Third Tipperary Brigade of the IRA and…
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Luger pistol belonging to the Sean Treacy of the 3rd Tipperary Brigade, Irish War of Independence
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In tribute of a gallant life long Irish Republican and patron of Republican Sinn Féin Óglach Dan Keating, Born on the 2nd January 1902
Dan Keating was born on a small farm near Castlemaine, in Kerry. Dan joined Na Fianna Éireann in 1918 and in 1920, during the era of the Irish War of Independence, he joined the 3rd Battalion, 1st Kerry Brigade of the Irish Republican Army. Like a majority of the Kerry IRA, he rejected the sellout Anglo-Irish treaty that enacted the partition of Ireland in 1921 and went on to fight on the…
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#"All the talk you hear these days is of peace#1st Kerry Brigade of the Irish Republican Army#and Tipperary#At the time of his death he was Ireland&039;s oldest man and the last surviving veteran of the Irish War of Independence#before his column was arrested by Free State Forces#Born on the 2nd January 1902#But he always remained an active#But there will never be peace in Ireland until the people of the 32 counties elect one parliament without British interference"#Castlemaine#Dan Keating#Dan Keating was born on a small farm near Castlemaine#Dan remained an active IRA volunteer for a long time after the Civil War#during a visit to County Kerry#during the era of the Irish War of Independence#Eoin O&039;Duffy#he joined the 3rd Battalion#he rejected the sellout Anglo-Irish treaty that enacted the partition of Ireland in 1921 and went on to fight on the Republican side in the#He remained loyal to the Irish Republic and refused to accept a state pension because he considered the 26-county free state an illegitimate#He retired and returned to his native Kerry in 1978#He spent seven months in Portlaoise Prison and the Curragh internment camp before being released in March 1923#He was active in London during the 1939/1940 IRA bombing campaign#He was arrested several times during the 1930s on various charges#He was buried in Kiltallagh Cemetery#he was involved in an attempt to assassinate the leader of the Irish free state fascists Blueshirts#He was involved in operations in Kerry#He was under constant surveillance by the Irish Free State special branch and involved in virtually every twist and turn of republican polit#However#In 1933#in Kerry. Dan joined Na Fianna Éireann in 1918 and in 1920#In memory of Dónal Céitinn 1902 – 2007
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It Seems Like Nothing Changes
Paul Cussen
January 1919
This is the year that sees the publication of Yeats’ The Wild Swan’s at Coole, Francis Ledwidge’s Complete Poems, and ‘An Seabhac’, Pádraig Ó Siochfhradha’s Jimín Mháire Thaidhg, the year in which Poe’s Tales of Mystery and Imagination is published with illustrations by Harry Clarke.
C.S. Lewis publishes his first work in London, Spirits in Bondage: a cycle of lyrics.
Other publications of note are:
Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio
Herman Hesse’s Demian
Franz Kafka’s In der Strafkolonie (‘In the Penal Colony’)
W. Somerset Maugham’s The Moon and Sixpence
Marcel Proust’s À l'Ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs, vol. 2 of À la recherche du temps perdu
P.G. Wodehouse’s My Man Jeeves stories
Virginia Woolf’s Night and Day
L. Frank Baum’s The Magic of Oz
The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon
Father Francis P. Duffy’s Father Duffy's Story: A Tale of Humor and Heroism, Of Life and Death with the Fighting Sixty-Ninth (with Joyce Kilmer)
John Maynard Keynes’ The Economic Consequences of Peace
Prof. William Strunk’s magnificent The Elements of Style
Sapper Dorothy Lawrence: The Only English Woman Soldier, and
Arthur Ransome’s Six Weeks in Russia
The Little Review was seized by the Post Office in January, not because of the contribution by James Joyce, but because of the inclusion of some nude drawings.
In mid-January approximately 5,000 soldiers mutiny in Southampton, taking over the docks and refusing to obey orders. Lies had been told and the men had thought they were to be discharged when they were being sent to France. Sir Hugh Trenchard surrounded the mutineers with soldiers and military police.
There was a melee between US sailors and British soldiers on board the Rosslare express train from Cork. Most of the windows were broken when the train arrived in Waterford and a number of the American sailors were injured. One was missing, and was later found, fighting fit, in Dungarvan.
In Belfast more than 20 Sinn Féin prisoners climbed on to the roof of the prison where, over the course of two hours, they waved republican flags and sang Sinn Féin and other songs to a large crowd that assembled on Crumlin Road. Their protest ended when members of the crowd began throwing stones at the protesters on the roof despite a police presence.
‘I can declare that the spirit of the prisoners, so far from being broken, has grown more robust since their entrance to the jail.’ - Count Plunkett
‘In January, 1919, Cork Brigade, which was made up of about twenty battalions and embraced the whole of Cork County, was divided into three Brigades. Our Battalion (Bandon) became the 1st Battalion, Cork III. Brigade.
The other battalions in the Brigade area were, as far as I can recollect, - Clonakilty (2nd), Dunmanway (3rd), Skibbereen (4th), Bantry (5th).
The 0/C., Cork III. Brigade, was Tom Hales who, up to the formation of the Brigade, was O/C. Bandon (1st) Battalion. I cannot recollect the names of the other officers on the Brigade Staff.
During 1919, beyond normal training, which was becoming slightly more advanced -selected members were being trained in scouting, signalling and the use of arms - there was no unusual activity in Company area.’ – Laurence Sexton.
http://www.bureauofmilitaryhistory.ie/reels/bmh/BMH.WS1290.pdf#page=5
1 January - Count Plunkett stays in his house in Upper Fitzwilliam Street in Dublin after being released from Birmingham Jail, having served seven months imprisonment.
Jerome David Salinger is born in Manhattan (d. 2010)
Edsel Ford succeeds his father as president of the Ford Motor Company.
HMY Iolaire hits the infamous "Beasts of Holm" rocks and sinks a mile from Stornoway harbour. Over 200 people drown in the tragedy.
2 January - The Cork Examiner reproduces a Daily Express article entitled ‘Why the Women Failed’ as 17 women had stood for election and only Countess Markievicz was elected. Two women had stood for election in Ireland; Winifred Carney failed to secure the seat for the Victoria Ward in Belfast.
3 January - The Faisal-Weizmann Agreement is signed for the development of a Jewish homeland in Palestine.
Tragic Week begins in Argentina as striking workers fire on police. Three policemen die over the course of the week and 78 are wounded. Between 100 and 700 civilian deaths are reported along with 2,000 wounded, while 50,000 people are imprisoned. Martial law is declared.
5 January - The Sparticist uprising begins in Berlin.
6 January - Theodore Roosevelt dies in his sleep (b. 1858)
7 January - A reception is held at the Imperial Hotel by the members of the Cork branch of the Irish Women's Association for almost 300 Munster men who had been prisoners of war.
Robert Duncan is born in Oakland, California (d.1988)
The Christmas Rebellion in Cetinje begins in response to an attempt to unite the Kingdom of Montenegro with the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.
The Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union of South Africa is founded, led by Clements Kadalie.
10 January - Private Harman and Private Perry of the Royal Defence Corps were shot on sentry duty at the railway bridge in Monard.
The newly formed Freikorps attack Sparticist supporters in Berlin.
13 January - Workers councils in Berlin end the general strike bringing the Sparticist uprising to an end.
15 January - Proportional Representation is used for first time in Sligo municipal elections.
Rosa Luxemburg (b. 1871) is arrested along with Karl Liebknecht (the only member of the Reichstag to have voted against the war, b.1871) for their part in the Sparticist uprising. They are murdered by members of the Freikorps. Luxemburg’s body is thrown in the Landwehr Canal in Berlin.
Red Rosa now has vanished too. (...)
She told the poor what life is about,
And so the rich have rubbed her out.
May she rest in peace.
- Bertolt Brecht
The Great Boston Molasses Flood occurs when a large storage tank bursts and a wave of two million gallons of molasses travels at over 50 km/h through the North End killing 21 and injuring 150.
16 January - The 18th Amendment to the American Constitution is ratified, authorizing Prohibition.
18 January - The Paris Peace Conference opens at the Palace of Versailles.
Bentley Motors Limited is founded.
Pianist and composer, Ignacy Jan Paderewski becomes the Prime Minister of Poland.
19 January - The first elections in Germany of the new Weimar Republic.
20 January - Silva Kaputikyan is born in Yerevan (d. 2006)
21 January - The first meeting of Dáil Éireann, formed by Sinn Féin MPs elected to the House of Commons, is conducted exclusively in Irish. Cathal Brugha takes the chair and calls on Father O’Flanagan to bless the proceeding. Clár Oibre Poblacánaighe, the Democratic Programme, is adopted.
An ambush is carried out at Soloheadbeg, Co Tipperary, by Irish Volunteers. Two RIC officers are killed; Constable James McDonnell, approximately 50 years old, was from Belmullet, County Mayo, a widower with four children; and Constable Patrick O'Connell was from Coachford, County Cork, approximately 30 years old and unmarried.
25 January - The League of Nations is founded in Paris.
26 January - Stoker 1st Class John McSweeney of Fuller’s Lane, Bandon Road dies of nephritis.
The 1918 All-Ireland hurling final is held in Croke Park.
Limerick 9-5 Wexford 1-3
27 January - A general strike is called over working hours led by engineering workers in Glasgow and Belfast.
31 January - The editorial of An t-Óglach states that the formation of Dáil Éireann “justifies Irish Volunteers in treating the armed forces of the enemy – whether soldiers or policemen – exactly as a National Army would treat the members of an invading army”
The British army is called in to deal with Scotland’s most widespread strike since 1820. Six tanks support 12,000 troops and the strikers give up their cause for a 40 hour work week after the Battle of George Square. Ironically, Glasgow citizens gave more per capita to fund the army’s tanks when “Julian the Tank” (No. 113) made a tour of Scotland in January 1918 as a Scottish War Savings Committee initiative. The tanks are not used against the public; their presence supporting the soldiers is enough.
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#OTD in 1919 – Dan Breen and Seán Treacy rescue their comrade Seán Hogan from a Dublin-Cork train at Knocklong, Co Limerick; two policemen guarding him are killed.
#OTD in 1919 – Dan Breen and Seán Treacy rescue their comrade Seán Hogan from a Dublin-Cork train at Knocklong, Co Limerick; two policemen guarding him are killed.
In one of the most dramatic events in the Irish War of Independence, a handcuffed young Tipperary volunteer, Seán Hogan, was rescued from a train while sat between four armed members of the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC). Two RIC were killed in the attack and a number of the volunteers wounded. The rescue was undertaken by three of Hogan’s comrades from the Third Tipperary Brigade of the IRA and…
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#OTD in 1919 – Dan Breen and Seán Treacy rescue their comrade Seán Hogan from a Dublin-Cork train at Knocklong, Co Limerick; two policemen guarding him are killed.
#OTD in 1919 – Dan Breen and Seán Treacy rescue their comrade Seán Hogan from a Dublin-Cork train at Knocklong, Co Limerick; two policemen guarding him are killed.
In one of the most dramatic events in the Irish War of Independence, a handcuffed young Tipperary volunteer, Seán Hogan, was rescued from a train while sat between four armed members of the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC). Two RIC were killed in the attack and a number of the volunteers wounded. The rescue was undertaken by three of Hogan’s comrades from the Third Tipperary Brigade of the IRA and…
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#"Big Four"#3rd Tipperary Brigade#3rd West Cork Flying Column#Co. Limerick#Danny Lacey#Dublin-Cork train#IRA East Limerick Brigade#Ireland#Irish History#Irish War of Independence#Jim Scanlon#Knocklong#RIC#Royal Irish Constabulary#Soloheadbeg Ambush
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#OTD in 1919 – Dan Breen and Seán Treacy rescue their comrade Seán Hogan from a Dublin-Cork train at Knocklong, Co Limerick; two policemen guarding him are killed.
#OTD in 1919 – Dan Breen and Seán Treacy rescue their comrade Seán Hogan from a Dublin-Cork train at Knocklong, Co Limerick; two policemen guarding him are killed.
In one of the most dramatic events in the Irish War of Independence, a handcuffed young Tipperary volunteer, Seán Hogan, was rescued from a train while sat between four armed members of the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC). Two RIC were killed in the attack and a number of the volunteers wounded. The rescue was undertaken by three of Hogan’s comrades from the Third Tipperary Brigade of the IRA and…
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#"Big Four"#3rd Tipperary Brigade#3rd West Cork Flying Column#Co. Limerick#Danny Lacey#Dublin-Cork train#IRA East Limerick Brigade#Ireland#Irish History#Irish War of Independence#Jim Scanlon#Knocklong#RIC#Royal Irish Constabulary#Soloheadbeg Ambush
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#OTD in 1919 – Dan Breen and Seán Treacy rescue their comrade Seán Hogan from a Dublin-Cork train at Knocklong, Co Limerick.
#OTD in 1919 – Dan Breen and Seán Treacy rescue their comrade Seán Hogan from a Dublin-Cork train at Knocklong, Co Limerick.
In one of the most dramatic events in the Irish War of Independence, a handcuffed young Tipperary volunteer, Seán Hogan, was rescued from a train while sat between four armed members of the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC). Two RIC were killed in the attack and a number of the volunteers wounded. The rescue was undertaken by three of Hogan’s comrades from the Third Tipperary Brigade of the IRA and…
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#"Big Four"#3rd Tipperary Brigade#3rd West Cork Flying Column#Co. Limerick#Danny Lacey#Dublin-Cork train#IRA East Limerick Brigade#Ireland#Irish History#Irish War of Independence#Jim Scanlon#Knocklong#RIC#Royal Irish Constabulary#Soloheadbeg Ambush
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Patrick Leonard Lieutenant C Company, 3rd Batt. North Tipperary Brigade IRA.
Patrick Leonard Lieutenant C Company, 3rd Batt. North Tipperary Brigade IRA. Resharing some family history This is my Grandad Patrick Leonard who was Lieutenant in C Company, 3rd Batt. North Tlpperary Brigade I.R.A., and took part in many engagements during the War of Independence . He served terms of imprisonment under the Crown Forces at the Curragh ,Gormanstown and Limerick. While imprisoned…
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It Seems Like Nothing Changes
by Paul Cussen
May 1919
1 May
Dan O’Herlihy is born in Wexford (d. 2005)
Two people die, at least 40 are injured and 116 are arrested in May Day riots in Cleveland, Ohio.
2 May
Anarchist and pacifist Gustav Landauer is killed when the Bavarian Soviet Republic is overthrown (b. 1870)
4 May
The Waterside Workers’ Federation (WWF) blockade a wharf to stop National Waterside Workers Union (NWWU) workers from reaching the Dimboola. NWWU workers arrive in boats down the river. The Fremantle Wharf riot ensues and Tom Edwards a WWF member is struck on the head by a police baton.
5 May
Séamus Ennis is born in Finglas (d. 1982)
Gunner John Ruth dies of TB in the Military Hospital.
5-6 May
The NAACP hold the National Conference on Lynching in Carnegie Hall, New York. It takes almost a century for Senate to pass legislation prohibiting lynching (the Justice for Victims of Lynching Act, December 2018)
6 May
The Grattan Street bomb making factory is discovered after an explosion the previous week. British authorities announce that “between 200 and 300 bombs were discovered in barrels in the ground under the flooring of the house in which the explosion occurred.”
Novelist, poet and scriptwriter Lyman Frank Baum dies in Hollywood (b. 1856)
7 May
Having met President Wilson in April, the members of an Irish-American Commission visit Cork and receive an address from the Cork Poor Law Board.
Novelist and historian Robert H. Adleman is born in Philadelphia (d. 1995)
Tom Edwards dies in Fremantle Hospital. An inquest finds his death to be accidental.
8 May
Volunteer Stephen Lehane is shot dead by friend and fellow Volunteer Daniel Hassett at the Short Castle paddock attached to Messrs. Cleeves’s condensed-milk factory in Mallow. Hassett found an old and dangerous revolver in a shed adjoining Messrs. Cleeves’s stable, where Lehane was employed as a groom. Hassett was putting the revolver into his pocket at about 9 a.m. when it went off accidentally, with the bullet striking Lehane in the head. After getting a priest to attend at the scene, Hassett promptly went to the Mallow police barracks, surrendered the revolver, and gave a statement about the accident to Head Constable O’Sullivan.
(http://theirishrevolution.ie/cork-fatality-register-2/#.XECAsNL7SM8)
9 May
A delegation of three Irish-Americans address Dáil Éireann before returning to Paris.
Anne Yeats is born in Dublin (d. 2001)
10 May
Poet, dramatist and journalist Ferdinando Fontana dies in Lugano (b. 1850)
Over 1,000 US sailors and some white civilians kill at least 165 African Americans in Charleston in little more than four hours before Marines, naval police and the city police restore order.
11 May
Parliamentary elections in Portugal result in the Democratic Party winning 86 of the 163 seats in the House of Representatives and 36 of the 71 seats in the Senate.
13 May
Seán Hogan is rescued from RIC custody in Knocklong railway station on his 18th birthday. The rescue is carried out by the Third Tipperary Brigade and some of the East Limerick Brigade. Dan Breen and Seán Treacy are wounded while Constable Michael Enright and Sergeant Peter Wallace die. Constable Jeremiah Ring who had sent the information on the escort’s movements to the IRA will resign from the RIC in September.
Winnepeg City Council insist that :
‘.....all persons employed by the City should express their willingness to execute an agreement, undertaking that they will not either collectively or individually at any time go on strike but will resort to arbitration as a means of settlement and differences which may not be capable of amicable settlement.’
As a result 6,800 workers from 13 trades join the strike.
Private Thomas Bowler dies in the Central Military Hospital.
15 May
30,000 workers virtually the entire working population of Winnepeg are on strike.
A landing force, consisting of 13,000 soldiers, as well as auxiliary personnel, 14 transport ships and escorted by 3 British and 4 Greek destroyers arrive at Smyrna. Violence and disorder follow the peaceful landing of Greek troops. Jewish and Turkish premises are looted by Greek soldiers. The Inter-Allied Commission of Inquiry reported that:
‘On 15 and 16 May, countless acts of violence and looting targeted at the Turkish people and their homes took place in the town. Fezzes were stolen, which prevented the Turks from leaving their homes. Many women were raped. Some people were murdered. These acts of violence and looting were committed for the most part by a mob of Greeks from the town, although it has been proven that soldiers also joined in and that the military authorities took no effective measures to stop the acts of violence and looting until it was too late.’
16-17 May
145 Turks under Lieutenant Colonel Kazim Bey repel attacks by 800 Greek irregulars. When two Greek army companies arrive on a battleship accompanied by a British officer, Bey and his 25 soldiers surrender while the 120 militia unit retreat to the interior of Anatolia.
17 May
The first of the Republican law courts is set up at Ballinrobe, County Mayo.
Members of Dáil Éireann send a letter to the head of the Paris Peace Conference, repudiating Britain’s claim to speak for Ireland.
20 May
Volunteer Lieutenant Michael Tobin dies of wounds received in the Grattan Street explosion.
At 4pm Seán Moylan who is on hunger strike escapes over a low hedge that separates the airing yard of the Cork City Lunatic Asylum from a field that leads to the road to Blarney. For more detail visit http://www.corkpastandpresent.ie/history/timeline-1918-1923/timeline/index1919.html
21 May
Lieutenant Michael Tobin’s remains are removed from the Mercy Hospital to the City church (SS. Peter & Paul’s) escorted by Volunteers, Fianna Boy Scouts, Citizen Army Boy & Girl Scouts, Cummann na mBan, the Clan na nGaedheal Girl Scouts and a large number of civilian mourners. The hearse was lead by fellow Volunteers and was followed by a pipe band.
The Battle of Alexandrovsky Fort, the largest naval battle on the Caspian front during the Russian Civil War, takes place. Commodore Davis Norris leads the British Caspian Flotilla, sinking three Russian ships and causing the Russians to leave the base. White Admiral Kolchack criticizes the lack of the complete destruction of the Caspian flotilla.
26 May
Members of Dáil Éireann send a statement concerning “Ireland’s Case for Independence” to the Paris Peace Conference.
27 May
Red Guards from local factories are organized under the command of G. I. Borisov, and are supported by 150 troops of the 3rd Brigade of the 5th Division of the 3rd Ukrainian Soviet Army. They capture the local post office, railway station and telegraph office in Bender/Tighina protesting the annexation of Bessarabia by Romania. At least 150 of these rebels are captured and executed by the Romanian army and a unit of French colonial troops.
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Death of the son of the late revolutionary leader Sean Hogan #RIP
Dated Nov16 2016 Tipperary Star Death of the son of the late revolutionary leader Tipperary’s Sean Hogan Sean Hogan whose son Sean (jnr) has just passed away. The death has been announced of the son of Tipperary revolutionary leader Sean Hogan after a short illness in Dublin. Sean (jnr) died peacefully fifty seven years after his father Sean who was one of the leaders of the 3rd Tipperary Brigade…
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#OTD in 1919 – Dan Breen and Seán Treacy rescue their comrade Seán Hogan from a Dublin-Cork train at Knocklong, Co Limerick; two policemen guarding him are killed.
#OTD in 1919 – Dan Breen and Seán Treacy rescue their comrade Seán Hogan from a Dublin-Cork train at Knocklong, Co Limerick; two policemen guarding him are killed.
In one of the most dramatic events in the Irish War of Independence, a handcuffed young Tipperary volunteer, Seán Hogan, was rescued from a train while sat between four armed members of the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC). Two RIC were killed in the attack and a number of the volunteers wounded. The rescue was undertaken by three of Hogan’s comrades from the Third Tipperary Brigade of the IRA and…
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#"Big Four"#3rd Tipperary Brigade#3rd West Cork Flying Column#Co. Limerick#Danny Lacey#Dublin-Cork train#IRA East Limerick Brigade#Ireland#Irish History#Irish War of Independence#Jim Scanlon#Knocklong#RIC#Royal Irish Constabulary#Soloheadbeg Ambush
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