A 24-year-old republican from west Belfast was among four prisoners executed in Dublin as the new Irish Free State government tried to assert its authority 100 years ago
A young republican from west Belfast was among four prisoners executed in Dublin as the new Irish Free State government tried to assert its authority 100 years ago.
The decision to execute McKelvey and three other IRA leaders - Liam Mellows, Rory O'Connor and Dick Barrett - was a direct response.Prof Marie Coleman, a historian from Queen's University in Belfast, believes it was a telling moment in the civil war. "Nevertheless the execution policy continued and in total in the civil war, 81 republicans were executed."McKelvey and three other IRA leaders - Liam Mellows, Rory O'Connor and Dick Barrett - were executed
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