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
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
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Joseph McKelvey was an Irish Republican Army officer who was executed during the Irish Civil War without trial or court martial. He participated in the Anti-Treaty IRA's repudiation of the authority o
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