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Upcoming Events
ST. MICHAEL'S RAFFLE SALES & RECRUITING
THIS WEEKEND SAT/SUN JAN 28-29 AFTER MASSES
Sun 15th 9:00a, 11:00a, 5:00p
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| Please sign up if you are able to help out after Masses |
| Wear green jackets (or something green) and help out with sales and recruiting at our table in the commons before & after Masses. |
| Questions, please reach out to Raffle Chair Jim Woods |
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Our St. Mary's visit is scheduled for the weekend of Februarty 25/26.
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100 Years Ago This Week In The Irish Civil War
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23 January An Anti-Treaty IRA column under Tom McEllistrim and John Joe Sheehy attacks the National Army barracks, containing 60 troops, in Castlemaine, County Kerry. They use an improvised mortar, one of whose rounds makes a direct hit on the barracks. In a subsequent two-hour gun battle, one Free State soldier is killed, the town's railway station is burned and the bridge over the river Maine blown up by the Republicans. The National Army reports 4 Anti-Treaty fighters killed.
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26 January Three men are executed by the Free State in Birr, County Offaly for armed robbery. Although not actually IRA members, having been denied entry on the grounds that they were too young, the three had Republican connections and claimed as 'Republican soldiers' in an Anti-Treaty communique. Story includes Tullamore Dew connection.
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28 January Ballinamore Free State barracks, Leitrim, is attacked and taken by Republicans. They take 35 National Army soldiers prisoner, who they take with them back to the Arigna mountains. The barracks itself and the train station are destroyed with explosives.
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Pro-Treaty/Free State/National Army/Regulars
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Anti-Treaty/IRA/Republican/Irregulars/Volunteers
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In Friendship, Unity, and Christian Charity,
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