1920 An IRA unit led by Eoin O’Duffy and Ernie O’Malley captured the RIC barracks at Ballytrain, Co. Monaghan, and seized all its arms and ammunition. 1929 The St Valentine’s Day massacre in Chicago, USA. In retaliation for a gun attack by Kerryman George ‘Bugs’ Moran’s North Side gang on his Lexington Hotel HQ the ... Read more
