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Joe Howley

  • 12-02-2007 10:38am
    #1
    TerrorFirmer
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    I was looking for some information on the Irish rebel Joe Howley who was shot dead by the British in December 1920. He was from the village of Oranmore, and although I remember my primary school teacher having a wealth of information on him and all general rebel activities in the area in his time, I can't find anything online or anywhere else...

    Anyone per chance know where I'd find anything?


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  • #2
    sgthighway
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    I don't know that much but he was the head dude in the Brigade around Oranmore. In 1916 the English would burn Irish Homes. Joe Howley decided for every home they burned; he would burn two English ones:D .
    He burned down a big English house in Renville Park. The ruins are still there.


  • #3
    Redhairedguy
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    He was shot 4 times in the back at a train station.

    *Thank you Mary Howley*


  • #4
    TerrorFirmer
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    Yeah she always told us the old story of the British calling out his name, and when he started to turn they shot him in the back. Firstly, that sounds incredibly exaggerated (probably for romantic reasons), . Secondly, I have found few sources that says he was shot in December 1920, but none that say he was shot dead in such as fashion....


  • #5
    Redhairedguy
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    HavoK wrote:
    Yeah she always told us the old story of the British calling out his name, and when he started to turn they shot him in the back. Firstly, that sounds incredibly exaggerated (probably for romantic reasons), . Secondly, I have found few sources that says he was shot in December 1920, but none that say he was shot dead in such as fashion....

    Didn't he see a ghost or something when he was hiding in a graveyard?*

    *Ref: Mary Howley-1997.


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