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May 12, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
100 years ago today 12 May 1920 the Royal Irish Constabulary barracks at Commons Road Cork was attacked & burned & Sgt. Denis Garvey & Constable Daniel Harrington were shot dead while Constable Doyle was wounded on the Lower Road Cork near the railway station.
Following numerous Image
attacks on RIC barracks nationwide, over 700 of the approximately 1,300 open in January 1919 were closed by January 1921. Co. Cork with 123 in January 1919, followed the trend of barrack closures & by January 2021, only 43 remained. 9 of the 16 barracks in Cork city and environs Image
had been abandoned; St. Lukes, King Street, Lower Glanmire Road, Sunday’s Well, Blackrock Road, Blackpool, Commons Road and Togher. A new headquarters opened on Empress Place, which served as the headquarters of the Auxiliaries. I wonder was the RIC man who came to the Commons Image
Road Barracks one of the men whose initials only (no names) was recorded on the 1911 Census which recorded the married Sgt as 49 and 5 constables in their 30's. All 6, bar one married constable who was previously a carpenter, were listed as single farmer's sons on the census. Image

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8 November- a busy day in Irish history.
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Mr Justice Max Barrett recently had some harsh words to say about unregulated “financial advisers” giving advice to people facing debt and repossession proceedings when he said the following in the case of Start v Cussen [2021] IEHC 531:
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Aug 6, 2021
404 years ago today on 6 August 1617, Sir Walter Raleigh sailed from the port of Cork in Ireland.
Raleigh was born in Devon, England, in 1554. Educated at Oxford, he practised law in the Middle Temple. He went to sea, becoming one of many privateers who served Queen Elizabeth by
preying on the Spanish and Portuguese ships returning with booty from the Americas.
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30 years ago this evening, on 30 June 1991, the First Edition of Bankruptcy Law & Practice written by then Mark Sanfey BL (now Mr Justice Mark Sanfey of the High Court) and myself was launched at a reception held in Stephen's Green in Dublin.
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In 1850, the decision by the Prime Minister, Lord John Russell, to restrict the mail to only one delivery on Sundays infuriated many citizens of Cork in Ireland.
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529 years ago today, 5 May 1492, Perkin Warbeck, pretender to the throne of England, paid the first of his 5 visits to Cork City in Ireland. He arrived as an apprentice to a Breton silk merchant Pierre Jean Meno. His job was to walk around the city in his Master's silk clothing.
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