Nothing ‘civil’ about Civil War 🇮🇪💔
1921 De Valera, O’Higgins, and Rory O’Connor (best man) at O’Higgins wedding.
1922 O’Connor executed by firing squad and the execution orders were signed by O’Higgins.
1927 O’Higgins was assassinated by an IRA unit as he walked to midday Mass. pic.twitter.com/8tpIjfPgET— Rob Cross (@RobCross247) July 24, 2020
Good times.
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The 1st verse from Yeats’ “The Municipal Gallery Revisited.
“Around me the images of thirty years:
An ambush; pilgrims at the water-side;
Casement upon trial, half hidden by the bars,
Guarded; Griffith staring in hysterical pride;
Kevin O’Higgins’ countenance that wears
A gentle questioning look that cannot hide
A soul incapable of remorse or rest;
A revolutionary soldier kneeling to be blessed;”
O’Higgins was Ireland’s Mussolini. Yeats was a Blueshirt.
Was Rory O’Connor not ginger?
Not just in the Michael Collins film, I could have sworn I saw other colourised pictures where he was…
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