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Among the first victims of the Easter Rising was a nurse rushing to attend to patients and the wounded. Margaret Keogh (Kehoe), from Leighlinbridge, Co Carlow. Margaret was working as a nurse in the South Dublin Union (now the site of St James’s Hospital). Six republican riflemen, who had been firing from a top floor on the British soldiers, vacated their position and there was a lull in the…

#OTD in 1916 – Easter Rising: Margaret Keogh was shot and killed by British soldiers while rushing to attend to patients and the wounded at the South Dublin Union (now the site of St James’s Hospital).

Among the first victims of the Easter Rising was a nurse rushing to attend to patients and the wounded. Margaret Keogh (Kehoe), from Leighlinbridge, Co Carlow. Margaret was working as a nurse in the South Dublin Union (now the site of St James’s Hospital). Six republican riflemen, who had been firing from a top floor on the British soldiers, vacated their position and there was a lull in the…

#OTD in 1916 – Easter Rising: Margaret Keogh was shot and killed by British soldiers while rushing to attend to patients and the wounded at the South Dublin Union (now the site of St James’s Hospital).

The first victim of the Easter Rising was a nurse rushing to attend to patients and the wounded. Margaret Keogh (Kehoe), from Leighlinbridge, Co Carlow. Margaret was working as a nurse in the South Dublin Union (now the site of St James’s Hospital). Six republican riflemen, who had been firing from a top floor on the British soldiers, vacated their position and there was a lull in the firing.…

#OTD in 1916 – The first victim of the Easter Rising, Margaret Keogh, was shot and killed by British soldiers while rushing to attend to patients and the wounded at the South Dublin Union (now the site of St James’s Hospital).

The first victim of the Easter Rising was a nurse rushing to attend to patients and the wounded. Margaret Keogh (Kehoe), from Leighlinbridge, Co Carlow. Margaret was working as a nurse in the South Dublin Union (now the site of St James’s Hospital). Six republican riflemen, who had been firing from a top floor on the British soldiers, vacated their position and there was a lull in the firing.…

The Molly Maguires were a secret society operating in the coalfields of Pennsylvania as TV historian discovers

The Molly Maguires were a militant secret society that organised among Irish-American miners in Pennsylvania striking terror into the mine owners and ruling class. Some saw the Molly Maguires as freedom fighters while others condemned them as hooligans and thugs. So, who were these working class radicals operating in the shadows under such a bizarre name? What we know for certain is that they…

The Molly Maguires were a secret society operating in the coalfields of Pennsylvania as TV historian discovers

The Molly Maguires were a militant secret society that organised among Irish-American miners in Pennsylvania striking terror into the mine owners and ruling class. Some saw the Molly Maguires as freedom fighters while others condemned them as hooligans and thugs. So, who were these working class radicals operating in the shadows under such a bizarre name? What we know for certain is that they…