Tag: Tomás Mac Curtain

#OTD in 1884/1920 – Tomás MacCurtain (born in Cork City), revolutionary and Lord Mayor of Cork is both born and assassinated on this date.

20/03/2018.Reading time 1 minute.

On his 36th birthday, Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Cork Tomás Mac Curtain was shot dead in front of his wife and son by a group of men with blackened faces, who were found to be members of the RIC by the official inquest into the event. Mac Curtain’s house in the city’s Blackpool area, […]

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#OTD in 1920 – Tomás MacCurtain was elected Lord Mayor of Cork.

31/01/2018.Reading time 2 minutes.

After Sinn Féin’s sweeping victory in the November 1918 general election and the setting up of the First Dáil in 1919 it was clear that the British government and the Republicans were on a collision course. The War of Independence began with the Soloheadbeg ambush on the same day that the First Dáil met. Tomás […]

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#OnThisDate in 1884/1920 – Tomás Mac Curtain (born in Cork City), revolutionary and Lord Mayor of Cork is both born and assassinated on this date.

20/03/2017.Reading time 1 minute.

On his 36th birthday, Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Cork Tomás Mac Curtain was shot dead in front of his wife and son by a group of men with blackened faces, who were found to be members of the RIC by the official inquest into the event. Mac Curtain’s house in the city’s Blackpool area, […]

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1920 – Tomás Mac Curtain is elected Sinn Féin Mayor of Cork city.

31/01/2017.Reading time 2 minutes.

After Sinn Féin’s sweeping victory in the November 1918 general election and the setting up of the First Dáil in 1919 it was clear that the British government and the Republicans were on a collision course. The War of Independence began with the Soloheadbeg ambush on the same day that the First Dáil met. Tomás […]

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1884/1920 – Tomás Mac Curtain, revolutionary and Lord Mayor of Cork is both born and assassinated on this date.

20/03/2016.Reading time 1 minute.

On his 36th birthday, Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Cork Tomás Mac Curtain was shot dead in front of his wife and son by a group of men with blackened faces, who were found to be members of the RIC by the official inquest into the event. Mac Curtain’s house in the city’s Blackpool area, […]

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1920 – Tomás MacCurtain is elected Lord Mayor of Cork.

31/01/2016.Reading time 2 minutes.

After Sinn Féin’s sweeping victory in the November 1918 general election and the setting up of the First Dáil in 1919 it was clear that the British government and the Republicans were on a collision course. The War of Independence began with the Soloheadbeg ambush on the same day that the First Dáil met. Tomás […]

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