On the 22nd of January 1921 a new curfew hour was placed on Cork City. All residents of the Rebel City had to be off the streets by 5pm. The following evening, January 23rd, a curfew patrol came across a group of people who defied the stringent curfew order and the result was death and injury.
A group of about a dozen people were gathered on Shandon Street near the cross section of Church Street and Cattle Market Street. It was well after the curfew hour of 5pm and there was some sort of music being played and it drew the attention of a number of youths.
The area of the incident.
The Staffordshire Regiment were the curfew patrol and had a reputation in the city for brutality. On that January evening a lorry load of them trundled up Shandon Street with intentions of imposing curfew on the Rebel City.
1911 census of the Moore family from Step Lane, Shandon.
The curfew patrol approached the group and ordered them to disperse. When the first order was ignored they followed it with a volley of shots and then a charge with bayonets fixed.
15 year old Richard Moore from nearby Step Lane (today known as Wolfe Tone Street) was hit above his heart with a bullet. Another youth, George Raymond, was injured. Young Moore was taken to the North Infirmary but he was already dead.
Modern day Shandon Street.
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