4-581: On 6 March 1921, the Curfew Murders took place in Limerick, Ireland. They took the lives of George Clancy , Michael O'Callaghan and Volunteer Joseph O’Donoghue. This death -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This Ireland -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . George Clancy (politician) George Clancy (18 March 1881 – 7 March 1921; also known as Seoirse Mac Fhlannchadha ),
8-550: The Irish Volunteers . In 1915 he married Máire Killeen, a teacher. After the 1916 Easter Rising he was arrested and imprisoned in Cork, but after a hunger strike was released before he came to trial. He was elected Sinn Féin Mayor of Limerick in 1921. On the night of 6 March 1921 three Auxiliaries came to his house and one of them shot him, injuring him fatally. His wife was injured in
12-708: The university were James Joyce , Francis Sheehy-Skeffington and Tom Kettle . He helped form a branch of the Gaelic League at college and persuaded his friends, including Joyce, to take lessons in Irish . He played hurling and was a good friend of Michael Cusack . With Arthur Griffin he joined the Celtic Literary Society. He graduated in 1904 and found a teaching position at Clongowes Wood College . Due to ill health he had to return to his home at Grange. In 1908 he came to Limerick City to teach Irish. In 1913 he joined
16-711: Was an Irish nationalist politician and Mayor of Limerick . He was shot dead in Limerick by Royal Irish Constabulary Auxiliaries in 1921 during the Irish War of Independence . The previous Mayor, Michael O'Callaghan, was assassinated on the same night by the same group. Clancy was born at Grange, County Limerick. He was educated at Crescent College , Limerick, and thereafter at the Catholic University in St Stephen's Green , now University College Dublin . Among his friends at
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