Cathal Brugha 90th anniversary

[joekilgobinet]

Today is the 90th anniversary of Cathal Brugha, who was shot off O'Connell St. Dublin during the Civil War on 5 July 1922 and died on the 7July.



Most of the anti-Treaty fighters under Oscar Traynor escaped from O'Connell Street when the buildings they were holding caught fire, leaving Brugha in command of a small rearguard. On 5 July, he ordered his men to surrender, but refused to do so himself. He then approached the Free State troops, brandishing a revolver. He sustained a bullet wound to the leg which 'severed a major artery causing him to bleed to death'. He died on 7 July 1922, 11 days before his 48th birthday. He had been re-elected as an anti-Treaty TD for Waterford at the 1922 general election but died before the Dáil assembled. He is buried in Glasnevin Cemetery.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathal_Brugha
http://generalmichaelcollins.com/Col...al_Brugha.html

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99aZIm1DZVY"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99aZIm1DZVY[/ame]

[Sam Lord]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Bi2a0St-go"]The Funeral of Cathal Brugha - YouTube[/ame]

[erigena]

The Funeral of Cathal Brugha - YouTube

We have the honour of having his grandson Prof Cathal MacSwiney-Brugha speak at our conference in Berkeley on wed

http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php...event_ID=55681

We'll make his contribution accessible on youtube


Up the republic!

[joekilgobinet]

Cathal Brugha's son Ruairi 1917-2006 married Maire MacSweeney in 1945, she was the only child of Terence MacSweeney, Lord Mayor of Cork, who died on hunger strike in 1920.
She passed away earlier this year.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2012/0521/mai...s-aged-94.html