Kyrls Quay - November 8 1920

Just shortly after 10 pm on a bitter cold November night William John Mulcahy was making his way home from work. 

As he walked along Kyrls Quay a group of Auxilaries shot at him. He fell with a bullet that entered his right shoulder and into his stomach.

                                                                Kyrls Quay today.



Mulcahy was a 39 year old Blacksmith from Evergreen Street on the southside of Cork city. 

On the night he was shot by the auxillaries he was on his way home from his workplace at McBrides Agricultural Engineers on Merchants Quay. 

                                                                   Evergreen Street



Mulcahy died in the back of a military lorry as the auxilaries were bringing him to the military hospital on the northside of the city. 

The authorities stated that he failed to stop when asked to do so and he ran. This was deemed a decent excuse by the authorities to shoot an unarmed civilian, it was an excuse used with many other instances of civilians killed by the British forces on the streets of Cork during 1920.

                                                    Mr Mulcahy's place of employment.