100 YEARS AGO: Seán Mac Eoin escape attempts

By Joseph E.A. Connell   Seán Mac Eoin, commander of the Longford ‘flying column’, one of the IRA’s most effective, was imprisoned in Mountjoy Prison in March 1921 and thereafter Michael Collins devised several attempts to free him. The first was when Collins had a friendly priest see Mac Eoin, and in the middle of ... Read more

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