Plenty of them have become attached to the events of the Bloody Sunday massacre in Croke Park on November 21, 1920. In the end, six of the 15 killed were probably British Intelligence personnel. The British reprisal at Croke Park that afternoon was even more chaotic carnage. Having surrounded Croke Park, at the time a simple sports ground, with the ludicrous plan to search everyone inside for weapons, the Black and Tans rushed in and started shooting. Tom Ryan, shot in the stomach while saying an act of contrition over the dying Tipperary player Michael Hogan.

Source: Irish Independent November 16, 2020 23:03 UTC