NANO AIKEN, INTERNMENT AND THE END OF THE IRISH REVOLUTION IN THE NORTH, 1923–4
By Eoin Magennis and Lesa Ní Mhunghaile Nano Aiken’s 1934 application for a military service pension named two unlikely referees for the 1923 period of service. One was Monsignor Eugene O’Callaghan, chaplain to Armagh Gaol and later bishop of Clogher. The other was Sir Dawson Bates, minister for Home Affairs in the Northern Ireland government. … Read more