Major Haig ordered them to ‘prepare to fire’, whereupon they the fired indiscriminately, point blank, at the people in the street. Four people were killed and thirty-seven wounded. All Ireland seethed with indignation.
Dublin’s Fighting Story features stories and reports from every aspect of the War of Independence. From the formation of the Fianna Éireann and the Volunteers. Through the Great Dublin Strike and Lock-out in 1913. The 1916 Easter Rising. The tragedy of Bloody Sunday. The burning of the Customs House.
Dublin’s Fighting Story offers the perspective of the eye witnesses and fighting men themselves to the struggle for independence in Dublin.
Our edition was published in Tralee by The Kerryman in 1947. It is a paperback and all the pages are in tact.