Operation Shamrock
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Operation Shamrock was a scheme bringing refugee children from mainland Europe to Ireland in the aftermath of the Second World War. It was organised by the Irish Red Cross, and involved about 500 chil
The Three Fates fountain in St Stephens Green, donated by the West German government in thanks for Operation Shamrock.
Charlie Kerins
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Charlie Kerins was a physical force Irish Republican, and Chief of Staff of the Irish Republican Army. Kerins was one of six IRA men who were executed by the Irish State between September 1940 and Dec
Operation Shamrock
…a thinly veiled excuse for the dissemination of Fascist propaganda’. The president was Kathleen Farrell (née Murphy), a paediatrician at whose house Charlie Kerins had been arrested in 1944. Dan Breen was treasurer. A Garda Special Branch attendee reported some speakers favoured assisting Germany from anti-British…
Charlie Kerins, circa 1930s