1921 Patrick Maher and Ned Foley were executed for the killing of two policemen during the rescue of Seán Hogan at Knocklong railway station in May 1919. They were the last to be executed prior to the Truce. 1970 Dr Owen Sheehy-Skeffington (61), humanist and academic, died. 1917 The start of the Battle of Messines ... Read more
