2013 Drumboe Calendar Final Draft

90th Anniversary Calendar

Drumboe Martyrs 1923-2013

Ballybofey No 1 Company 4th Battalion No. 3 Brigade, 1921

Domhnach Luan Máirt Ceadaoin Déardaoin Aoine Sathairn

Eanáir January

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1957: Sean South & Fergal O’Hanlon killed in action.

1919: Preliminary meetingof the First Dail.

1922: De Valera resigns as President of the Irish Republic.

1922: Treaty debate resumes in the Dail.

1920: Recruitment begins for ‘Black & Tans’. 1921: British

Forces burn a number of housesin Midleton, Cork.

Fr. Flanagan, acting vice-president of Sinn Féin, meets with British PM Lloyd

George.

1902: Kevin Barry born in Rathvilly, Co. Carlow. 1923:

4 IRA Volunteers executed in Kerry by Free State forces.

1922: Treaty passed by 64 votes to 57, paving the way for Civil war. 1978: IRA ambush SAS

unit in Turf Lodge, Belfast.

1920: IRA attacks Dunbane Barracks, Tipperary.

1972: IRA ambush British Army, Strabane, Co. Tyrone.

1904: Birth of IRA Chief of Staff, Head of Amnesty International & Nobel

Laureate, Sean McBride.

1939: IRA declare war on England and bombing campaign begins.1977: IRA Vol Seamus

Harvey killed by SAS, Coolderry, Crossmaglen, South Armagh.

1974: IRA launch helicopter attack on Strabane RUC Barracks. 2000: 20,000 people gather in Belfast to honour Vol Tom Williams who was hanged in

1942.

1923: 5 IRA Vol’s executed, 2 in Portlaoise & 3 in Birr, Co

Offaly. 1972: IRA engage British Army in 4 hour gun battle in which

British fire 4500 rounds, Dungooley, South Armagh.

1919: Inaugural meeting of the First Dail. 1919: Soloheadbeg

ambush, Tipperary. 1972: IRA ambush British Army,

Strabane, Co. Tyrone.

1921: IRA attack RIC Patrol in Trim, Co Meath. 1922: Free

State forces led by Joe Sweeney launch an offensive against

the IRA in Donegal.

1998: The British government bows to pressure and announces

a new judicial inquiry into Bloody Sunday.

1920: Tomás MacCurtain is elected Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Cork. 1947: Death of trade union leader ‘Big’ Jim Larkin.

1978: The European Court of Human Rights find the British Government guilty of inhuman and degrading treatment of

prisoners in the Six Counties.

1975: Vol John Francis Green murdered at Mullyash, Co.

Monaghan following abduction by SAS.

1921: IRA ambush British Army troop train at Meenbanad outside Dungloe, Co Donegal.

1921: First RUC member killed in IRA ambush, Crossmaglen,

Co. Armagh.

1943: McAteer, Steele, Maguire & Donnelly escape

from Crumlin Jail.

1923: 3 IRA Volunteers executedin Dundalk, Co. Louth by Free State forces.

1921: James Sloan and James Torney killed at Ballykinlar camp.

1972: ‘Magnificent Seven’ escape from Maidstone Prison ship.

1920: IRA attack Baltinglass Barracks, Co Cork.

1972: Bloody Sunday in Derry.

1974: IRA ambush British Army patrol, Ballyronan, Co. Derry.

1970: Sinn Féin caretaker executive set up following

walkout from Ard fheis.

1969: Burntollet ambush. 1976: Loyalist murder gang kills five

nationalists from two families in County Armagh.

1871: John Devoy and Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa released from

jail in Britain.

Civil Rights March, Strabane, 1969


Feabhra February

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1967: Civil Rights Movement founded in the Six Counties.

1992: Vol Joseph MacManus killed in action in Co. Fermanagh.

1920: IRA captures Castlemartyr RIC Barracks, Co Cork.

1923: Denis ‘Dinny’ Lacey, Tipperary is killed in action.

1988: British army patrol ambushed in Belfast.

1993: IRA carry out sniper attack in Crossmaglen, South Armagh.

1962: IRA Border Campaign which began in 1956 ends.

1921: ‘Mourne Abbey’ ambush, County Cork.

1903: Death of Young Irelander Charles Gavin Duffy.

1919: DeValera escapes from Lincoln Jail, England. 1921: IRA ambush Crown forces at

Dromkeen, Co Limerick, killing 11.

1921: Vol Paddy Crowley killed in action whilst attempting tofight his way out of round up by Auxilaries in West Cork.

1921: 12 IRA Vol’s killed in action during ambush in

Clonmult, Co Cork. 1976: Frank Stagg dies on hunger

strike.

1971: Robert Curtis is killed in Belfast. He is the first British

soldier to be killed by the IRA since the 1920’s.

1940: Barnes & McCormick are hanged in England.

1991: IRA launches mortar attack on Downing Street, London.

1813: Following transportation United Irishman Joseph Holt

Shipwrecked. 1922: IRA ambush RUC Main St. Clady, Co. Tyrone

1978: IRA kill high ranking SAS officer in M60 machine -gun attack on helicopter in

Jonesborough, South Armagh. 1994: IRA ambush RUC patrol in

the Markets area of Belfast.

1921: Lt. Joseph Duffy killed in action, Ramelton, Co. Donegal.

1990: A crowd of civilians attack a British Army/RUC patrol allowing the escape of three vol’s captured during

IRA operation in Silverbridge, Co Armagh.

1921: Following IRA ambush of Crown forces in Mountcharles, Black & Tans attack premises there and in Donegal Town, murdering Mary Harley in the

process. 1991: Death of Letterkenny IRA Volunteer Tim McGarry.

1921: Crown forces burn Inver Co-op, Co. Donegal. 1974: IRA launch

major gun & mortar attack on Crown forces in Strabane. 1985: Vol’s

Charles Breslin along with David & Michael Devine are killed by Crown

forces in Strabane.

1972: Funeral of Bloody Sunday victims in Derry and

burningof British Embassy in Dublin.

1996: IRA detonates massive lorry bomb in London Docklands

ending ceasefire.

1922: Capt Hugh Britton & Vol James Gallagher killed

in Donegal Town.

1984: Volunteers Henry Hogan & Declan Martin killed in action in

Dunloy, Co Antrim.

1920: IRA execute British Agent, Henry Quinslink, who was sent to capture Michael Collins in Cork.

1920: IRA launch attacks on Timoleague and Mount Pleasant

RIC Barracks, West Cork.

1921: Vol Michael Heeney is murdered by Auxiliaries in Glencolumcille, Co. Donegal.

1992: Four IRA Volunteers killed in SAS ambush Clonoe,

Co Tyrone.

1990: IRA shoot down British Army helicopter in Clogher,

Co. Tyrone.

Linda Kearns, Eithne Coyle (Falcarragh) and Mary (Mae) Burke at rifle training shortly after their escape from Mountjoy Jail


Márta March

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1957: IRA destroy Strabane-Derry freight train.

1994: IRA launch third mortar attack in 4 days on Heathrow

Airport, London.

1704: British introduce ‘Penal Law’ in Ireland.

1983: IRA ambush British Army patrol on the Falls Road, Belfast.

1921: IRA ambush RIC patrol in Castletownroache, Co Cork.

1921: IRA ambush Crown forces in Keadue, Co. Roscommon.

1973: IRA ambush British Army patrol in Ballygawley, Co Tyrone.

1921: IRA attack train carrying Auxiliaries in Ardfelt, Co Kerry.

1987: IRA Vol Gerard Logue killed on active service in Derry.

1920: Dublin shops wrecked by British troops.

1991: IRA Vol’s John Quinn, Malcolm Nugent and Dwayne O’Donnell murdered by UVF in

Cappagh, Co Tyrone.

1923: IRA attack Free State Barracks, Creeslough,

Co. Donegal. 1994: IRA launch second mortar attack on

Heathrow Airport, London.

1858: Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB) founded in

Dublin. 1978: Francis Hughes captured following shoot out with SAS,

Maghera, Co Derry.

1966: Nelson’s Pillar blown up in Dublin.

1994: IRA launch mortar attack on Heathrow Airport, London.

1921: 6 IRA Volunteers killed in action in Mohill, Co Leitrim. 1989: IRA attack Castlederg

UDR base, Co. Tyrone.

1921: Tom Barry’s Flying Column routs a much superior force of the Essex regiment, killing 30,

Crossbarry, County Cork.

1919: Twenty republican prisoners escape from Mountjoy

Jail, Dublin. 1934: Death of Captain Sean Sharkey IRA.

1990: IRA Vol’s turn the tables on SAS ambush, inflicting a heavy

defeat on British undercover units, in Cappagh, Co. Tyrone.

1920: Black and Tansarrive in Ireland.

1990: IRA attack Castlederg Brit/RUC Barracks, Co. Tyrone.

1921: IRA attack Falcarragh Barracks & Troop Train in

Cresslough, Co. Donegal. Crown forces carry out reprisals in

Creeslough.

1923: 4 IRA Vol’s killed in action in Wexford. 1979: Leading Tory spokeperson on Ireland, Airey

Neave, is killed as he leaves the House of Commons.

1921: Black & Tans murder Mayor & ex-Mayor of Limerick.

1923: 8 IRA prisoners murdered by the use of a mine by Free State

forces, Ballyseedy, Co Kerry.

1867: Fenian rising begins in Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Clare & Tipperary. 1921: IRA carry

out major ambush in Clonbanin, Co Cork.

1923: Five IRA Vol’s of the Kerry No.3 Brigade are murdered by Free State forces with a

landmine, after being shot in the legs and tied to a barricade to

prevent them escaping -

1921: Lettermacaward based IRA Vol’s attack Doochary Barracks, Co.

Donegal. 1922: IRA kill RIC man, Falcarragh, Co. Donegal 1994: IRA shoot down British army helicopter in mortar attack, Crossmaglen, Co.

Armagh.

1921: 6 IRA vol’s hanged in Mountjoy Jail, Dublin.

1923: Drumboe Martyrs executed in Donegal. 1972: IRA Vol’s Colm

Keenan & Eugene McGillan Shot dead by British Army in

Creggan, Derry.

1976: In Co. Armagh Vol Peter Cleary is murdered by British undercover

troops in Forkhill whilst IRA launch mac hine gun & rocket attack on helicopter

in Crossmaglen. 1999: Civil rights solicitor Rosemary Nelson murdered

by British Agents, Lurgan, Co Armagh.

1988: Vol Caoimhín MacBradaigh murdered by Loyalists in Milltown

Cemetery, Belfast.

1981: Start of second Hunger Strike in Long Kesh. 10 men

would later die on the protest.

1988: Vol’s Mairead Farrell, Dan McCann & Sean Savage

killed in SAS ambush, Gibraltar.

1994: US President Bill Clinton agrees Visa for Gerry Adams

to visit America.

IRA in action along Tyrone Border in the 1970’s


Aibreán April

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1920: IRA ambush RIC in Lackenagh Woods, Co Tipperary.

1921: IRA execute Sir Arthur Vickers in Listowel, Co Kerry.

1940: Tony D’Arcy dies on hunger-strike.

1986: Vol Seamus McElwaine killed on active service in Co

Fermanagh.

1940: Sean McNeela dies on hunger-strike.

1816: Birth of Charles Gavin Duffy.

1920: 200 RIC barracks burned by the IRA.

1920: Ardara RIC Barracks, Co. Donegal attacked by IRA. 1989: IRA Vol Gerard Casey murdered by Crown forces.

1981: Hunger Striker Bobby Sands is elected MP in Ferman-agh South Tyrone by-election.

1916: Provisional Revolution-ary Government appointed, and Proclamation prepared. 1920: Clogher RIC Barracks burned,

Co. Donegal.

1993: IRA volunteers take over the village of Cullaville in South

Armagh under the gaze of British Army Watchtower.

1923: Vol Michael Foy killed in action in Borris, Co Carlow.

1923: 8 IRA Volunteers executed in Tuam, Co. Galway.

1921: IRA carry out bomb attack on Springfield Rd.

Barracks, Belfast.

1920: Members of Michael Collin’s ‘Squad’ execute senior DMP detective in Camden St,

Dublin. 1974: IRA ambush SAS unit in the Bogside, Derry.

1921: 6 IRA Vol’s Murdered by RIC/Black & Tans, Clogheen, Co Cork, 1921: IRA ambush Auxilia-ries in Belfast. 2 Catholics killed

by Crown forces in reprisal.

1916: Irish republic declared, Easter Rising begins. 1993: IRA bomb Bishopsgate,

London, causing 1 billion pounds worth of damage.

1916: Arms ship Aud arrives off Kerry coast. 1921: IRA attack

Glenties RIC station in an hour long gun battle.

1801: Trial of Napper Tandy begins. 1973: IRA carry out

landmine attack in Newtownhamilton, South Armagh.

1921: IRA executes senior RIC officer. 10 houses are blown

up by Crown forces in reprisal, Tipperary.

1916: Arms ship Aud scuttled off Kerry coast. 1997:IRA bring

London transport system to a halt.

1982: IRA ambush British Army patrol on the Donegal-Fermangh

Border at Bellek.

1916: Padraig Pearse orders the surrender of Republican forces in Dublin. 1920: IRA attack Rush

Barracks, Dublin.

1921: 4 IRA Volunteers executed in Cork Jail. 1990: IRA launch

mortar attack on Strabane RUC Barracks, Co. Tyrone.

1921: IRA carry out multiple ambushes across Limerick &

Cork. 1921: Glenties RIC Barracks, Co. Donegal attacked.

1923: IRA Chief of Staff Liam Lynch dies. 1973: IRA attack British Army

patrol in the Bogside, Derry. 1983: IRA ambush SAS patrol

on the Strand Rd, Derry.

1989: IRA vol James Joseph Connolly killed on active ser-

vice in Drumquinn, Co Tyrone.

1923: 4 IRA Vol’s killed in action in Wexford. 1979: Leading Tory spokeperson on Ireland, Airey

Neave, is killed as he leaves the House of Commons.

1914: Cumann na mBann founded. 1921: IRA attack RIC

patrol in Ramelton, Co. Donegal. 1982: IRA ambush SAS patrol,

Creggan St. Derry.

1861: Derryveagh evictions begin in Co Donegal. 1921: Over 1000

British Soldiers converge on the Rosses from four different

directions in major military operation.

1920: Members of Michael Collins’ ‘Squad’ execute British agent

‘Jameson’ in Glasnevin, Dublin. 1987: Vol Larry Marley, architect of the 1983 escape from Long Kesh,

is murdered by loyalists.

Neil ‘Plunkett’ OBoyle’s Unit, 1923


Bealtaine May

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1921: Vol Patrick Casey executed in Cork Jail.

1916: John McBride executed. 1921: IRA launch gun attack on

Carrigart Barracks, Co. Donegal. 1981: Death of Bobby Sands

on hunger-strike.

1919: Vol. Sean Hogan rescued during Knocklong ambush in

County Limerick. 1989: IRA carry out mortar attack in

Glassdrummand, South Armagh.

1922: Gun Battle at Lifford & Strabane between IRA & B

Specials. 1981: Vol’s Charles Maguire & George McBrearty killed

by undercover soldiers in Derry.

1921: Vol Con ‘Beezer’ Boyle from Dungloe wounded & captured at

Glendowan, Co. Donegal. 1921: Black & Tans carry out indiscriminate gun & grenade attacks in Carndonagh, Co.

Donegal. 1974: British assisted Loyalist bombs in Dublin & Monaghan kill 33

civilians and injure 200.

1992: IRA launch remote controlled ‘train bomb’

at Cloghoge, Co Armagh

1982: IRA attack Crown Forces at Camels Hump, Strabane,

Co. Tyrone.

1921: IRA suffer heavy casualties in ambush at

Kilmeena, Co. Mayo.

1972: Special Criminal Court set up by the Dublin government.

1921: Sinn Féin take 124 seats in Southern parliamentary

elections.

1923: Ceasefire of republican forces.

1868: Fenian Michael Barret executed in England.

1921: IRA attack Glenties Barracks, Co. Donegal. 1921: RIC patrol ambushed Drumbarron, Ardara, Co. Donegal. 1981:

Death of Raymond McCreesh on hunger-strike. 1994: Vol Martin Doherty

killed by Loylalists in Dublin.

1921: Crown forces carry out extensive raids in Buncrana,

Co. Donegal.

1984: IRA carry out landmine attack on British Army patrol in Crossmaglen, South Armagh.

1848: John Mitchel transported to Tasmania.

1906: Death of Michael Davitt. 1986: Death of IRA Vol Philip

‘Fadgie’ McFadden.

1921: Comdt. General Tom Maguire commands IRA ambush

at Tourmakeady, Co Mayo.

1921: IRA ambush 10 man RIC patrol in Ballynacargy,

Co Westmeath.

1916: James Connolly & Sean MacDiarmada executed. 1981: Death of Francis Hughes

on hunger-strike.

1923: Donegal born Vol Neil Plunkett O’Boyle is killed in action in Wicklow. 1971: Vol Billy Reid

is killed in action in Belfast.

1798: Date fixed for the United Irishmen Rebellion.

1921: Edeninfeagh RIC Barracks burned, Co Donegal.

1921: IRA burn Customs House, Dublin. 1991: Sinn Féin

Councillor Eddie Fullerton is murdered by Loyalists, at his

home in Buncrana, Co Donegal.

1921: IRA ambush RIC patrol and attack RIC Barracks in

Letterkenny, Co. Donegal. McCarry’s Hotel is shot up

and attacked with grenades by Black & Tans in reprisal.

1921: Vol Daniel O’Brien, is executed in Cork Jail. 1921: Royal Navy lands Troops in

West Donegal to conduct raids in Dungloe & Burtonport.

1973: Trial of six men charged with importing arms on the Clau-

dia begins in Special Criminal Court.

1916: Thomas Kent executed in Cork. 2008: Death of

Ivan Barr, Strabane, Co. Tyrone.

1946: Sean McGaughey dies on hunger & thirst strike in

Portlaoise Prison.

1916: Con Colbert, Sean Heuston, Eamonn Ceannt and

Michael Malin executed. 1987: 8 IRA Volunteers killed

at Loughall, Co. Armagh.

1921: IRA kill 2 RIC men, Clonmany, Co Donegal.

1972: 60 remand prisoners protest over conditions in

Armagh Prison.

1922: IRA attack Free State Army convoy in Newtowncun-

ningham, Co Donegal.

IRA training camp during the 1950’s Border Campaign


Meitheamh June

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1974: Death of Michael Gaughan on hunger strike. 1991: 3 IRA

Volunteers killed in action in Coagh, Co Tyrone. 1991: Death of Vol Danny McCauley, Strabane,

Co. Tyrone.

1915: Death of Jeremiah O Donnavan Rossa.

1921: Owen McCarron murdered by Crown forces near Cockhill

Chapel, Buncrana, Co. Donegal.

1921: IRA attack Crown forces patrol in Ardara, Co. Donegal. On the same day the IRA ambushes 3 lorryloads of RIC, Tans & Army

reinforcements at Kilrean, Glenties on their way to Ardara.

1798: Henry Joy McCracken issues orders for United Irishmen to rise in Ulster. 1922: Vol William Deasley dies of wounds received during battle of Pettigo, Co. Donegal.

1921: Sniping attack on Glenties RIC Barracks, Co. Donegal. 1922: 3 IRA Vol’s killed in the Battle of Pettigo, Co. Donegal. 1980: John Turnly is first to be murdered by British agents as part of operation ‘RANC’

which is launched to seek revenge for death of Airey Neave. 2006: Death of Frank Morris

in Co Donegal.

1869: James Connolly is born in Edinburgh.

1798: United Irishmen attack Arklow, Co. Wicklow.

1922: Free State forces attack the Four Courts in Dublin.

1935: Riots in Belfast follow the Ulster League rally.

1798: Henry Joy McCracken leads rising in Antrim.

1848: ‘Irish Felon’, edited by John Martin appears.

1936: IRA are proscibed by Free State government.

1763: Birth of Theobald Wolfe Tone.

1554: Silken Thomas declares war on England.

1981: Crumlin Road Jail escape.

1921: 2 IRA Volunteers executed in Mountjoy Jail, Dublin.

1930: Death of Luke ‘Dynamite’ Dillon.

1853: Escape of John Mitchel from Tasmania.

1922: Arms raid carried out at Rossan Point Coastguard Station by Donegal IRA. 1922: RUC established.

1921: Captain James McCarron killed in action by Crown forces,

Ballybofey, Co. Donegal.

1798: Battle of Vinegar Hill, Co. Wexford. 1978: 3 IRA Vol’s & 1 civilian are murdered by under-

cover British troops in Ballysillan, Belfast.

1913: Padraig Pearse gives oration at grave of Tone in Bodenstown, Co. Kildare. 1921: Killygordon,

Co. Donegal is terrorised by Black & Tans. 1922: IRA assasinate

Sir Henry Wilson.

1972: IRA chief of Staff invites British direct-ruler William Whitelaw to peace talks.

1920: Officer Commanding of the South Sligo Brigade of the IRA, Frank Carty, is rescued

from Sligo Jail.

1970: Battle of St. Mathews takes place in Belfast.

1971: First recorded Tyrone IRA operation in recent campaign.

1939: Offences Against the State Act becomes law in the 26

Counties. 1990: IRA bomb British Army

base in West Germany.

1973: Vol’s Dermot Crowley, Sean Loughran & Patrick Carty

killed on active service in Omagh, Co Tyrone.

1917: 1916 Internees released under general amnesty.

1921: In Donegal the towns ofBuncrana and Carndonagh are

terrorised by Crown forces.

1937: Vol. Peter McCarthy is shot dead by Special Branch in Dublin.

1996: In Manchester, the IRA detonates the largest bomb to

explode in England since WWII.

1921: IRA attacks Teelin Coastguard Station, Co Donegal. 1954: Raid by the IRA on Gough

Barracks, Co. Armagh.

1921: IRA burn Moville Coast-guard Station, Co. Donegal.

1921: IRA engage in running gun battle with Crown forces at Rosbeg

following abortive raid in Ardara, Co. Donegal. Several Vol’s wounded.

Capt James McCarron 1921

Capt Con Boyle 1921

Vol. Michael Heaney 1921

Capt Hugh Britton 1921

Vol. James Gallagher 1921

Lt Owen Duffy 1921

Lt. Joseph Duffy 1922

Vol. S McCanney 1922

Vol. Patrick Flood 1922

Vol. William Deasley 1922

Vol. William Kearney 1922

Capt Hugh Morrison 1922

Vol Frank Moy 1922

Vol Hugh Gallagher 1922

Capt James Connolly 1922

Vol Dan Harkin 1922

Comdt. Gen. Charles Daly 1923

Brig. Gen. Sean Larkin 1923

Lt. Dan Enright 1923

Lt. Timothy O’Sullivan 1923

Comdt Neil Plunkett O’Boyle 1923

Vol Dan McConalogue 1923

Vol. Owen Boyle 1923

Vol. Mary Mc Bride 1924

(Cumann na mBan)

Vol. Nellie Kelly 1927

(Cumann na mBan)

REPUBLICAN ROLL OF HONOUR - TIR CHONAILL COMMAND

Capt Sean Sharkey 1934

Comdt John James Kelly 1938

Comdt Charles Mc Cafferty 1938

Staff Capt JJ Reynolds 1938

Staff Capt Jim Mc Ginn 1973

Lt Seamus Harvey 1973

Lt Gerard Mc Glynn 1973

Vol. Peter McElcar 1976

Vol. Patrick Cannon 1976

Vol. Antoine Mac 1984

Giolla Bhrighde

Vol. Kieran Fleming 1984

Vol. Reamonn Mac Lochlainn 1985

Vol. Philip Mc Fadden 1986

Vol. Damian Brolly 1991

SINN FEIN

Padraig O’Seanachain 1991

Cllr. Eddie Fullerton 1991

IRA unit on Donegal - Tyrone border

Carndonagh IRA 1922 IRA sniper in action along the border


Iúil July

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1921: IRA attacks British army patrol in Gweedore, Co. Donegal. 1922: Republican forces occupy

building in O’Connell Street, Dublin.

1803: Explosion at Robert Emmet’s Patrick Street depot.

1981: IRA launch M60 machine-gun attack on British undercover soldiers who are about to carry out ambush in Glasdrumman, South Armagh.

1981: Death of Joe McDonnell on hunger strike. 1997: IRA Vol’s

defending Nationalist estate in North Belfast from Loyalist attack, repel incursion by British Army & RUC.

1943: Vol Jackie Griffith is shot dead by Garda Special Branch

in Holles Street, Dublin.

1969: Re-internment of the remains of Barnes &

McCormick in Mullingar, County Westmeath.

1921: IRA ambush British Army troop train at Meenbanad outside

Dungloe, Co Donegal.

1920: Glencolumcille RIC Barracks in Donegal is burned.

1922:Civil War fighting in Limerick ends.

1958: IRA Commander, Patrick McManus is shot dead by RUC

in Fermanagh.

1848: Habaes Corpus Act is suspended.

1920: Cork City Magistrates resign.

1883: Informer James Carey is executed by Patrick O’Donnell from Gweedore, Co. Donegal.

1973: IRA Vol’s Pauline Kane & Alphonsus Cunningham killed

in accidental explosion, Newcastle, Co Down.

1921: 3 IRA Vol’s killed in action in Castleisland, Co Kerry.

1921: 161 Nationalist homes burned in Belfast pogroms.

1798: United Irishman Henry Joy McCracken is hanged inBelfast.

1976: Vol’s Peter McElchar & Patrick Cannon killed on active

service in Co. Tyrone.

1798: United Irishmen John McCann and William Byrne are executed. 1922: Vol Dan Harkin from Churchill, Co. Donegal dies

from his wounds in Lifford hospital.

1921: IRA attack Rear Cross Barracks, Co. Tipperary.

1922: IRA ambush Free State forces in Drumkeen, Co Donegal.

1691: Battle of Aughrim, Co. Galway. 1994: RAF

helicopter crash lands after mortar strike in

Newtownhamiliton, Co Armagh.

1981 Death of Martin Hurson on hunger-strike. 1984: Vol Willie Price is killed by SAS

in Ardboe, Co Tyrone.

1922: Cathal Brugha is wounded at Hammers Hotel in Dublin.

1985: IRA attack British at Cam-els Hump, Strabane.

1970: Falls Road Curfew begins in Belfast.

1798: John & Henry Spears are hanged.

1803: Robert Emmet’s Rising takes place in Dublin.

1848: Young Ireland Rising, Ballingarry, Co. Tipperary.

1972:British Army launch Opera-tion Motorman in Derry.

1970: Death of John Joe Rice, Kerry No. 2 Brigade.

1970: First meeting of theIrish convention.

1830: Birth of Fenian John O’Leary in Tipperary.

1914:Howth gun-running.

1874: Cathal Brugha is born in Dublin.

1911: Belfast Dock Strike is led by James Connolly.

1972: End of IRA / British truce.

1970: Criminal Justice (temporary provisions)

Bill rushed through Stormont.

British military evacuate Letterkenny


Lúnasa August

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1922: Harry Boland is killed by Free State assasination squad in

Skerries, Dublin. 1981: Death of Kevin Lynch

on Hunger Strike.

1922: Dunne & O’Sullivan are executed in England.

1973: Vol’s Gerard McGlynn & Seamus Harvey are killed on

active service, Co Tyrone.

1972: Vol’s Anne Parker & Michael Clarke are killed in

accidental explosion. 1978: IRA ambush SAS on the

Letterkenny Rd, Derry.

1981: Death of Kieran Doherty in hunger-strike.

1940: Clann Na Gael leader, Joseph McGarrity dies.

1996: Death of Donegal IRA Volunteer Damien McFadden.

1920: IRA attack RIC Patrol in Kildorrey, Co Cork.

1981: Death of Thomas McElwee on hunger-strike.

1971: Internment is introduced in the Six-Counties.

1916: Roger Casement is hanged in London.

1855: Young Irelander, Charles Gavin Duffy, is transported to

Australia.

1971: Joe Cahilll holds press conference in Belfast during

internment round up.

1971: IRA carries out sniper attack on British Army patrol in

Andersonstown, Belfast.

1798: General Humbert’s expedition arrives off Killala Bay,

Co. Mayo.

1971: IRA ambushes British Army patrol on the Monaghan -

Armagh border.

1848: Young Irelander John Martin is found guilty of

treason felony.

1974: 19 Volunteers escape from Portlaoise Prison.

1920: RIC patrol is attacked by the IRA in Bantry, Co. Cork.

1693: Patrick Sarsfield wounded at Battle of Landen in Belgium.

1882: Death of Fenian Charles J. Kickham.

1920: Major Johnston is shot dead by IRA in Rosbeg,

County Donegal.

1825: Death of Michael Dwyer in Australia.

1939: Special Criminal Court set up in Twenty-Six Counties.

1981: Death of Mickey Devine on Hunger Strike.

1969: Battle of Bogside, Derry. 1991: Padraig O’Seanacháin

murdered by Loyalists in Aghyaran, Co Tyrone.

1988: Vol’s Gerard & Martin Harte, along with Vol Brian Mullin

are killed in action in Drumnakilly, Co. Tyrone.

1913: Great Lock-out of workers begins in Dublin.

1920: IRA attack RIC barracks in Drumquin, Co. Tyrone.

1979: Lord Mountbatten executed by IRA in Sligo. On the same

day, 18 British soldiers are killed in Narrow Water Ambush.

1922: IRA attack Free State forces, Bundoran, Co Donegal. 1969: First republican casualty

of recent campaign, Fian Gerard McAuley, dies.

1909: Fianna Eireann founded. 1920: IRA attack RIC

patrol in Ardara, Co. Donegal. 1990: IRA launch mortar attack on

Strabane RUC Barracks, Co. Tyrone.

1940: IRA Chief of Staff Sean Russell dies.

1969: British troops appear on the streets of the Six-Counties.

IRA Volunteers marching to take over Finner Camp 1922


Méan Fomhair September

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8 9 10 11 12 13 14

15 16 17 18 19 20 21

22 23 24 25 26 27 28

29 30

1864: Birth of Roger Casement.

1851: Death of Anne Devlin. 1803: ‘Trial’ of Robert Emmett.1845: Death of Thomas Davis.

1798: General Humbert surrenders.

1940: Paddy McGrath & Thomas Harte are executed

in Mountjoy Jail.

1971: Major gun battle in Clady, Co. Tyrone between Donegal IRA and Crown forces. 1984:Trawler

Marita Ann is captured.

1981: IRA carry out landmine attack in Cappagh,

Co. Tyrone.

1942: Tom Williams is hanged in Crumlin Road Jail, Belfast.

1649: Massacre by Cromwell’s forces at Drogheda, Co. Louth.

1989: Death of former IRA Chief of Staff, Seamus Twomey.

1936: Vol Sean Glynn dies in Arbour Hill Prison, Dublin.

1913: James Connolly begins Hunger Strike.

1908: Scoil Eanna is founded by Padraig Pearse.

1865: ‘Irish People’ Fenian newspaper suppressed.

1921: Vol. Murtagh McAstocker is murdered by Loyalist gang.

1917: Sean Treacy joins Hunger Strike in Mountjoy Jail.

1920: Reprisals by Crown forces in Galway result in the murder of

Councillor Michael Walsh.

1942: Vol Paddy Dermody is shot dead by Special Branch

in County Cavan.

1958: Ruairi O’Bradaigh &Daithi O’connaill escape

from Curragh Camp.

1964: Sinn Féin office in Divis Street, Belfast is raided by RUC to remove tricolour.

1803: Robert Emmett executed in Dublin 1922: 4 IRA Vol’s killed in action by Free State forces in

Ballintrillick, Co Leitrim.

.1985: Death of Buncrana IRA Vol Réamonn MacLochlainn.

1881: 1916 Leader, Eamonn Ceannt is born.

1920: Vol’s Sean Gaynor & Eamonn Trodden are murdered

in Belfast.

1602: Death of Red Hugh O’Donnell in Spain.

1842: Birth of John Devoy in Kill, County Kildare.

1920: Belfast Boycott instituted in Waterford.

1920: IRA destroy Barracks at Belleek and Fanad.

1990: IRA destroy Loughgall RUC Barracks, Co. Armagh.

1922: Eithne Coyle is captured in Donegal Town1983: 38 IRA POW’s break

out of H-Blocks.

Buncrana IRA Unit, 1922


Deireadh Fómhair October

1 2 3 4 5

6 7 8 9 10 11 12

13 14 15 16 17 18 19

20 21 22 23 24 25 26

27 28 29 30 31

1964: Tricolour riots in Belfast.

1920: Toureen ambush, County Cork.

1905: Sinn Féin is founded.

1803: Thomas Russell is hanged. 1641: Rising begins.

1932: Unemployed march by Catholics & Protestants in Belfast.

1883: Explosions in Paddington and Westminster railway stations.

1993: IRA Vol Thomas Begley killed in action in Belfast.

1914: James Connolly becomes General Secretary of the ITGWU.

1803; Birth of Young Irelander, William Smith O’Brien.

1791: Society of United Irishmen founded in Belfast.

1881: ‘No Rent Manifesto’ issued by the Land League.

1972: IRA blow cover on Four-square Laundry British

Intelligence Operation in Belfast.

1972: Sinn Féin office in Kevin Street closed by Twenty-Six

County government.

1919: 19 newspapers are suppressed and large number

of arrests in Ireland.

1920: RIC patrol is ambushed in Killybegs, Co. Donegal.

1973: Mountjoy helicopter escape.

1920: Dan Breen and Sean Treacy escape during raid on

Fernside, Drumcondra, Dublin.

1842: First issue of the Nation appears. 1991: IRA launch mortar

attack near Castlederg, Co. Tyrone.

1974: Long Kesh is burned down. 1992: Sheena Campbell murdered is Loyalists in Belfast.

1797: William is Orr hanged1920: Sean Treacy shot dead on

Talbot Street, Dublin,.

1798: Bonaparte’s expedition with Tone on-board arrives off

Donegal Coast.

1649: Wexford is attacked by Cromwellian forces.

1921: Fintown RIC Barracks, Co. Donegal is burned.

1691: Treaty of Limerick is signed. 2008: Death of Charlie McHugh,

Castlederg, Co. Tyrone.

1968: Civil rights march in Derry is attacked by RUC.

1978: IRA launches gun attack on SAS patrol in Dungannon,

Co. Tyrone.

1920: Death of the Lord Mayor of Cork, Terence MacSweeney on

Hunger Strike. 1989: IRA launch mortar attack on British Army

base, Crossmaglen, Co. Armagh.

1803: 21 people who were involved in Emmet’s Rising are

executed. 1971: Gun battle between IRA & Crown forces,

Doneyloop, Co. Derry.

1920: Kevin Barry court-martialled.1989: IRA ambush

RUC armoured patrol with heavy machine-guns in Newtownhamiton,

South Armagh.

1922: 3 IRA vol’s killed in action in Upton, Co Cork.

1923: Body of Captain Noel Lemass is found in Dublin

mountains.

1915: Irish Citizen Army commanded by James Connolly

carries out sham attack on Dublin Castle, 1990: Vol’s Dessie Grew and Martin McCaughey killed in

SAS ambush in Co. Armagh.

1973: Belfast republican Seamus Twomey is sentenced to

3 years at the Special Ciminal Court in Dublin.

1920: Ardara RIC Barracks attacked in Donegal. 1922: Vol’s Brendan

Holahan, Eamonn Hughes & Joseph Rodgers muredered in Clondalkin by Free State forces after being arrested

for putting up posters.

House in Castlefinn where Staff Captain JJ Reynolds and Comdt Charles McCafferty were killed in an accidental explosion in 1938


Samhain November

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3 4 5 6 7 8 9

10 11 12 13 14 15 16

17 18 19 20 21 22 23

24 25 26 27 28 29 30

1649: Death of Owen Roe O’Neill.

1798: Death of Theobald Wolfe Tone.

1920: Bloody Sunday, Dublin.

1920: Kevin Barry is hanged in Mountjoy Jail.

1815: Birth of John Mitchel in Dungiven, County Derry.

1861: Funeral of Terence Bellew MacManus in Dublin.

1940: Vol Sean Gaffney dies while interned on prison ship in

Belfast.

1919: Sinn Féin is proscribed by the British government.

1909: Michael Cusack, founder of Gaelic Athlethic Association

dieds.

1867: Manchester Martyrs - Allen, Larkin and O’Brien are

hanged.

1913: James Larkin returns to Ireland.

1973:Vol Michael McVerry is killed in action in Keady,

South Armagh.

1971: Crumlin Road Jail ‘Kangaroo’ escape.

1920: Tralee, Ballymore and Granard wrecked by

Black and Tans.

1920: Arrest of Dick McKee and Peadar Clancy in Dublin.

2008: Death of PJ Branley & Dessie McNulty, Co Donegal.

1798: Wolfe Tone arrives in Dublin under arrest.

1920: Connaught Ranger, James Daly, is executed in

India.

1972: Maire Drumm, Vice-President of Sinn Féin is arrested

on charges of incitement in Mullingar, Co. Westmeath.

1922: Vol’s James Fisher, Richard Twohig, Peter Cassidy and James Gaffney are first of 77 executed in

Kilmainham Jail in 1922.

1920: Kilmichael Ambush, County Cork. 1938: Staff Captain JJ

Reynolds, Comdt John James Kelly & Comdt Charles McCafferty killed in action, Castlefinn, Co. Donegal.

1847: Fenian Peadar Cotello is sentenced to 12 years of

penal servitude.

1918: Seamus O’Kelly dies during attack by British forces on Sinn Féin Headquarters in Dublin.

1957: 4 IRA Volunteers killed in accidental explosion in

Edentubber, County Louth.

1853: Following escape from Tasmania, John Mitchel

arrives in New York.

1978: IRA carry out 14 separate bombing operations

across the Six-Counties.

1922: Irish Volunteers founded in Dublin. 1992: IRA Vol Pearse Jordan murdered by RUC in

Belfast.

1922: Erskine Childers is executed. 1922: 4 IRA Vol’s of the Dublin Brigade executed by

Free State forces.

1848: Maurice O’Neill is hanged in Mountjoy Jail. 1919: IRA

attack RIC patrol in Dungloe, Co. Donegal.

1921: 42 IRA Vol’s escape from Kilkenny Jail.1975: IRA ambush

undercover British soldiers at their hideout in Drumuckavall,

Crossmaglen, South Armagh.

IRA patrol, Main Street Clady, 1970’s


Nollaig December

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8 9 10 11 12 13 14

15 16 17 18 19 20 21

22 23 24 25 26 27 28

29 30 31

1939: Derry Prison protest.

1922: Three Vol’s killed in action against Free State forces.

1922: Barrett, McKelvey, Mellows and O’Connor are executed.

1919: Bar Association protest against proposed Home Rule Bill.

1920: Over 30 Black and Tans killed in ambushes.

1956: Border roads are cratered and spiked by RUC.

1939: Magazine Fort raided by IRA.

1991: Death of IRA Vol Damien Brolly, Donegal.

1865: Fenian Convention takes place in Chicago.

1972: Three day Christmas cease-fire by IRA ends.

1920: Vol James Looby is shot by British forces in County Tipperary.

1856: Gweedore sheep war begins in Donegal.

1956: Border Campaign beganin the Six-Counties.

1956: IRA attack RUC barracks in Fermanagh.

1867: Clarkenwell explosion, England.

1918: Dick Coleman dies of pneumonioa in Usk Prison.

1918: Sinn Fein win 73 seats in General Election.

1956: Internment introduced in the Six-Counties.

1984: Deaths of IRA Vol’s Antoine MacGiolla Bhrighde & Ciaran

Fleming in Fermanagh.

1940: Curragh burned & Vol Barney Casey is murdered

by military police.

1592: Red Hugh O’Donnell, Art and Henry O’Neill escape

from Dublin Castle.

1883: Patrick O’Donnell is hanged for shooting informer

James Carey.

1865: Fenian John O’Leary is sentenced to 20 years penal

servitude.

1922: 3 IRA Vol’s executed by Free State forces in Dublin.

1944: Charlie Kerins is hanged. 1971: 30 min gun battle in Castlederg, Co. Tyrone.

1931: Death of Edward Russell, the last of the Tallaght Fenians. 1993: IRA launch new home-made Armour Piercing Mortar.

1922: Rory O’Connor, Joe McKelvey, Liam Mellows & Richard Barrett executed in

Dublin.1973: Vol Jim McGinn is Killed on active service in Clady,

Co Tyrone.

1922: 7 IRA Vol’s from Tipperary & Kildare are executed in Dublin. 1982: IRA launch mortar attack

on Camels hump, Strabane, Co. Tyrone.

1844: Death of James Fintan Lalor. 1972: Vol Eugene Devlin

killed on active service in Strabane, Co Tyrone.

1942: John Hinchy dies in Mountjoy Jail, Dublin.

1971: IRA ambush RUC patrol in Strabane, Co. Tyrone.

1920 ‘A’ Specials of RUC begins patrolling Belfast. 1984: Vol’s

Daniel Doherty & Willie Fleming killed by undercover soldiers

in Derry.

1972: Fian Bernard Fox killed on active service by British forces.

1983: Vol’s Colm McGirr & Brian Campbell are executed by

undercover British soldiers.

Documents

2013 Drumboe Calendar Final Draft