This day 231 years ago – 14 July 1789 – the Storming of the Bastille took place.
The prison had only seven inmates, one of whom was Dubliner James F. X. Whyte.
Whyte was once a captain in the Irish Brigade, but had gone mad. One witness said he had “a beard almost a yard long.” pic.twitter.com/7gIZDbN09j
— This Day in Irish History (@ThisDayIrish) July 14, 2020
Post-lockdown hairiness.
We’ve all been there.
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One of the people who apparently led the storming of the Bastille was a cobbler from Wexford named Kavanagh.
see also, Colonel James Bartholomew Blackwell, who is credited with being invbed in the first charge on the Bastille,
born in Ennis County Clare, Blackwell was a mercenary who went to France, originally to become a priest, but then a woman came on the scene as they do, Sophie Wade
* being involved
At the beginning of a revolution the main prisons are opened and inmates released. As revolutions go from one stage to the next, the prisons are quickly filled with enemies of the state and imagined enemies.