Rebel Streets of Cork 1919 - 1923

  It was Sunday night just after 9 o'clock when 22 year old Jer Mullane was shot dead at St Paul's Avenue, just off the Coal Quay. H...

  Just after 5pm, on a bright Saturday evening in May, seven RIC men from Shandon Street Barracks went on a foot patrol towards Blackpool. T...

Just after 6pm on the evening of November 17th 1920 Sergeant James O'Donoghue left his home on Tower Street and proceeded to walk to his...

  For a few days in October in 1922 Washington Street played host to scenes of mayhem and tragedy. On the 18th of October 13 year old Ellen ...

  Seamus Quirke lived with his family at Marina Terrace before moving to Galway where the 23 year old was killed in brutal fashion by the cr...

  Christopher Lucey lived at No. 3 Pembroke Street before he went west to Ballingeary where he was killed by crown forces on November 10th 1...

  On the night of November 23rd 1920 the loyalist Anti-Sinn Fein Society with the aid of Auxiliaries/Tans/RIC torched the Sinn Fein club kno...