100 years ago today - remarkable scenes in Ireland as 40,000 turn out to pray outside Mountjoy Prison as six IRA men are executed. Post offices shut down for the day. Bray, Dún Laoghaire and Blackrock shut down. Extra masses were held. These men are part of the ‘Forgotten Ten’. 
CORRECTION: These executions took place in 1921, making it the 99th anniversary. The centenary will be a year from today.
Patrick Doyle (29) was a carpenter. He had a daughter, aged 3, who he constantly mentioned in his letters to his wife, who gave birth to twins shortly before the executions. One of these twins died on the 12th of March. His brother Séan was K.I.A. at the Customs House soon after.
Frank Flood (19) had helped Patrick Doyle in attempts to free Kevin Barry from Mountjoy Prison. All three were executed on the same day.
Floor was a successful student, and had earned a scholarship in engineering at University College Dublin, where he scored very well in exams.
Floor was a successful student, and had earned a scholarship in engineering at University College Dublin, where he scored very well in exams.
Patrick Moran was a founder of the National Union of Vintners Grocers and Allied Trades Assistants. He fought under Thomas MacDonagh in the 1916 Rising, and refused his chance to escape prison just days before execution, allowing another man, Simon Donnelly, out in his place.
Thomas Bryan was an electrician. He took part in the same hunger strike as Thomas Ashe in Mountjoy Prison, and was in the guard of honour for Ashe’s funeral. He was married just four months before his execution.
Bernard Ryan (20) was a clerk and an apprentice tailor. Though his father was from Thurles, Co. Tipperary and his mother from Ferns, Co. Wexford, Bernard was born and raised in Dublin. He loved and studied the Irish language.
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