Grenade assault, Shaughnessy's bar, Ennis, 1921

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Paddy Casey
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Grenade assault, Shaughnessy's bar, Ennis, 1921

Post by Paddy Casey » Thu Nov 11, 2010 6:28 pm

From the UK National Archives, a report by the General Officer Commanding-in-Chief on the Situation in Ireland for the Week Ending 16th April 1921:

Ennis, Co.Clare, At 22.45hrs (date not visible) armed civilians threw hand grenade into Shaughnessy's public house and killed Sergt. Rees, Royal Scots, wounded a police constable and two females.

See http://www.warofindependence.net/?page_id=225 for more on this and the background.

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Re: Grenade assault, Shaughnessy's bar, Ennis, 1921

Post by Padraig Og O Ruairc » Fri Nov 19, 2010 7:29 pm

Hello Paddy,
Thanks for posting the link to my site. I posted that article about sectarianism on here also. It is interesting to note that the Shaughnessy's though attacked for their Loyalist politics ( and what the I.R.A. at the time would have seen as collaboration with the British forces ) were Catholic. This shows that the terms Protest and Loyalist were not automatically equated in the minds of Clare republicans at the time.

Padraig

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