This day 92 years ago – 10 July 1927 – Kevin O’Higgins was shot dead on his way to Sunday Mass in Blackrock, Dublin.
The Minister for Justice would be the last serving Irish politician to be assassinated until Billy Fox was killed in 1974.
Anti-Treaty IRA men were responsible. pic.twitter.com/dZYDODysTi
— This Day in Irish History (@ThisDayIrish) July 10, 2019
He died for Ireland.
Having executed 77 IRA prisoners, including his best man.
Mmmf.
Pic via National Library of Ireland
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He also was part founder of the corrupt and bent coppers unit known now as the special detective unit
More than a hint of Buster Keating about him.
or maybe it’s just the hat?
He does a bit – he has that long face, also.
He was the Irish Mussolini. Thankfully he got shot. Good day for the Irish people.
He was a serving Irish minister shot down by terrorists. That’s a disgraceful thing to say.
FF were painting “77” on hoardings during elections up until the 1970s, making sure civil war politics were kept fresh in people’s minds.
Of course the Free State executions were wrong but they were, for the most part, carried out in a legal framework.
I don’t imagine O’Higgin’s enjoyed any role in the execution of his Best Man.
The Civil War is one area where we still can’t calmly discuss the past with some air of reasoned detachment.