Bill Gannon was a well-known militant of the Irish Republican Army and later a leading member of the Communist Party of Ireland.
Gannon in 1954
Roderick O'Connor was an Irish republican who was Director of Engineering for the IRA in the Irish War of Independence. O'Connor opposed the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921 and was chairman of the republic
Bill Gannon (Irish republican)
…On 8 December 1922 O'Higgins signed off on the retaliatory executions of four senior republicans (Liam Mellows, Richard Barrett, Joe McKelvey and Rory O'Connor) for the killing of a member of Dáil Éireann. Moreover, he was a dominant member of the Free State government and the conspirators had good reasons to…
Portrait of O'Connor, early 1920s
Back row l-r: Éamon de Valera, Kevin O'Higgins and his best man, Rory O'Connor, at O'Higgins' wedding, October 1921. A year later O'Higgins would sign O'Connor's death warrant
Rory O'Connor addressing members of the IRA's Dublin City Brigade at Smithfield, April 1922