It was a cold dark Friday evening when a skirmish broke out on Leitrim Street between Free Staters and Anti-Treaty IRA Volunteers.
25 year old James Murphy from Walshes Avenue fought with the British Army in World War One and lost one arm in action. He was walking down Leitrim Street when he got caught in the crossfire between the two sides. He kept close to the wall of Murphy's Brewery and managed to duck in between the entrance gates.
Bullets whizzed around the street as James Murphy stood in by the gateway of the brewery but, a bullet pierced his abdomen and Mr Murphy fell dead at the gates of Murphy's brewery.
Then & now: the gates of Murphy's Lady's Well Brewery.
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