John Joseph Conroy was barely 40 years old when he died from Tubercolosis on 15th January 1937. A past pupil of both St Laurence O’Tooles on Seville Place and the Wharf Boys School in East Wall, he had served time as an apprentice at the Dublin Dockyard Company. As a boy he had joined the …
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Aug 14
The Great North Wall Railway Robbery of 1915.
One hundred years ago . It was midnight, as Saturday the 14th August became Sunday the 15th August 1915, when six armed and masked men forced their way into the rail depot at North Wall. Determined and precise, they left a short time later, taking with them four large crates. The men were not apprehended …
Nov 21
Bloody Sunday 1920, East Wall and the one who got away.
Bloody Sunday 1920, East Wall and the one who got away. The events of November 21st 1920 are among the most talked about from the Irish Revolutionary period. Remembered as ‘Bloody Sunday’, the day saw a total of 31 violent deaths in the city – 14 targets associated with British Military Intelligence , 14 shot …