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Upcoming Events
DIVISON BUSINESS MEETING - TOMORROW TUE 4/11 7p - ST. MICHAEL'S
DUES ARE DUE
| Actually, dues are overdue as of April 1st. If you have not paid your 2023 Dooley Division dues by the purchase of raffle tickets, or $35 stand-alone dues ($10 for members 75+), please remit...check can be made out to Major James H. Dooley Division AOH and this can be mailed to... |
| Tim McDonnell, Financial Secretary |
| For those who have paid their dues since the March business meeting, again either through stand-alone payment or as part of the sale of raffle tickets, I will be handing you your 2023 Membership Card at the meeting tomorrow. If we do not connect at the meeting, I will be mailing it out your way shortly after the meeting. |
100 Years Ago This Week In The Irish Civil War
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10 April On the night of the 9th April, IRA Chief of Staff Liam Lynch and his party (Frank Aiken, Sean Hyde, Bill Quirke, Sean O'Meara and Sean Hayes) stayed at Croagh (Crohan West – 3 miles south-west of Newcastle, at the foot of the Knockmealdown mountains). A pro-Treaty search party under Captain Tom Taylor and Lieutenant Laurence Clancy (Hopkinson says Tommy Ryan and Lt Clancy) came close to where Lynch and his party were staying and they tried to escape across the mountains. When moving across the coverless shoulder of a mountain, Liam Lynch was shot and mortally wounded. He was brought down off the mountain by the pro-Treaty troops and brought to a public house in Newcastle and afterwards onto Clonmel. His last message is ‘I am confident if we stand united that victory is certain and that in a short time’. He died at 8.45pm and buried in Kilcrumper, outside Fermoy. A new biography on Lynch, currently sitting at #5 in the Non-Fiction Best Sellers list in Ireland will be released in a couple of weeks stateside.
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11 April The Irish Times writes ‘The National Army has now a position of overwhelming superiority in the field. The militant Republicans have lost their most active leaders. … The hour is ripe for peace. The whole country seeks it.’
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14 April Former Minister of Home Affairs (now “Justice”) Austin Stack arrested near Ballymacarbery with a memo calling on the President to order an immediate halt to hostilities was found on him. (Published two days later.) Shortly afterwards, Dan Breen captured in Glen of Aherlow in Tipperary.
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In Friendship, Unity, and Christian Charity,
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