John Harrison (County Leitrim)
John Harrison Irish War of Independence victim, born 1868, died April 1921.
Harrison was a native of Drumreilly, County Leitrim, and a member of the Methodist faith [1]
The South Leitrim Brigade of the IRA regularly stopped the Cavan and Leitrim Railway and searched the Mail Car to intercept mail to the Royal Irish Constabulary and Dublin Castle .[2]
One such raid implicated a local Farmer, John Harrison.[3]
Death[edit]
Orders were then given to execute him, and in April 1921 he was executed by a local Company of the IRA.[4] [5] At his inquest it was also alleged that he had refused attend a local IRA court to hand over weapons which he owned and had been demanded by the local IRA.[6]
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References[edit]
- ↑ http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Leitrim/Garadice/Drumreilly/1481844/.
- ↑ The Cavan and Leitrim Railway, Patrick J Flanagan, pan Books, London, 1966.
- ↑ http://www.bureauofmilitaryhistory.ie/reels/bmh/BMH.WS1266.pdf.
- ↑ http://www.bureauofmilitaryhistory.ie/reels/bmh/BMH.WS1266.pdf
- ↑ http://www.bureauofmilitaryhistory.ie/reels/bmh/BMH.WS1263.pdf.
- ↑ Revolution in Connacht, Cormac o Comhrai, Mercier Press, Cork, 2013.
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