#OTD in 1920 – Catholic priest, Father Michael Griffin was killed.
Fr Griffin would have been known to the Crown Forces, as a known republican sympathiser. On the night of 8 September 1920, he was called out to attend Seamus Quirke, a First-Lieutenant in the local IRA after he was shot seven times at the docks. He also took part in the funeral mass of Michael Walsh of the Old Malt House following his murder on the night of 22 September 1920. On 14 November, Fr…
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