Clare’s Civil War dead

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This October marks the one hundredth anniversary of the re-internments of five young men from County Clare who were executed by the Irish Free State for their part in anti-Treaty activities during the Irish Civil War. Cornelius McMahon and Patrick Hennessy from Clooney had been executed in Limerick Gaol on January 20, 1923 and their …
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