Tag Archive: Rory O’Connor
Dec 09
Rory O’Connor , Jack Nalty and the chess-set fit for heroes
On the 8th December 1922 four republican prisoners were executed by the Free State at Mountjoy Gaol . The evening before one of the men, Rory O’Connor, had been playing chess with his comrades. Upon receiving the news of his sentence , he handed his chess set to fellow prisoner , the North Wall man …