Home » HUGH DUBH O’NEILL SURRENDERED LIMERICK TO HENRY IRETON. THEY HELD OUT FOR MONTHS UNDER SIEGE, FAMINE AND DISEASE BUT WHEN ENGLISH ROYALISTS MUTINIED & TURNED THE TOWN’S GUNS INWARDS, O’NEILL HAD TO SURRENDER. CIVILIANS AND THEIR GOODS WERE UNHARMED, 1651

HUGH DUBH O’NEILL SURRENDERED LIMERICK TO HENRY IRETON. THEY HELD OUT FOR MONTHS UNDER SIEGE, FAMINE AND DISEASE BUT WHEN ENGLISH ROYALISTS MUTINIED & TURNED THE TOWN’S GUNS INWARDS, O’NEILL HAD TO SURRENDER. CIVILIANS AND THEIR GOODS WERE UNHARMED, 1651

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COMMANDANT MICHAEL SCANLAN, IST GALTEE BATTALION, EAST LIMERICK BRIGADE, I.R.A., KILMALLOCK AND GALBALLY, KILLED IN LIMERICK ON OCTOBER 27TH, 1920. HIS FUNERAL WAS STOPPED BY A BRITISH OFFICER WHO REMOVED THE FLAG FROM HIS TRICOLOUR DRAPED COFFIN. SCANLAN HAD BEEN SHOT WHILE TRYING TO ESCAPE ARREST THE PREVIOUS DAY.

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