In the early hours of May 23rd 1921, 24 year old Stephen Dorman was walking home with some of his work colleagues when they were attacked with a grenade and rifle fire.
Stephen Dorman (or Dormon as it also spelled.)
Stephen Dorman worked at the Readers & Compositors Department of the Cork Examiner and finished night work at 3am. He was walking back to his home at Evergreen Buildings with fellow work colleagues Fred Murphy, Christopher Walsh and James Collins when masked men in the uniform of the crown forces ambushed them at the junction of Douglas Street and Nicholas Street.
Evergreen Buildings, just off Barrack Street, home to Mr Dorman.
Stephen Dorman was a member of E Company, 2nd Battalion, First Cork Brigade IRA. It was around 3:15am when Dorman and his work colleagues reached Douglas Street and just as he and Christopher Walsh turned to head up the steep Nicholas Street a grenade was thrown at them followed by a hail of bullets.
The scene of the attack on Dorman and his work colleagues.
Walsh was wounded but survived. Dorman's leg was almost blown off and locals ran out to aid the stricken men. A priest hastily brought Dorman to the South Infirmary where doctors amputated his leg but, severe blood loss and shock resulted in his death hours later.
Stephen Dorman's remains were brought from St Finbarrs South Chapel to the Republican Plot at St Finbarrs Cemetery. He is remembered today on a plaque on Tower Street which commemorates the local battalion of the Cork No.1 Brigade.
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