O’CONNOR, Rory. A document signed by Rory O’Connor, and probably in his hand, 2pp, mostly in green ink, listing a series of pamphlets, documents and photographs in a collection or archive, mostly ticked off, including ‘File containing extracts from An tÓglach etc.,

Pamphlet on Burning of Cork, do. Limerick murders, Fr. Albert’s letter to De Valera’, etc.
Presumably a list made during some movement of headquarters.
Roderick O’Connor (1883-1922) engineer and Irish republican who was Director of Engineering for the IRA in the Irish War of Independence. Born in Dublin, he was educated in St Mary’s College, Dublin, and then in Clongowes Wood College, Co Kildare, a boarding school run by the Jesuit order. It was also attended by the man who would later condemn O’Connor to death, his close friend Kevin O’Higgins. O’Connor had been best man at his wedding on 27 October 1921. He returned from work in Canada at the request of the IRB, and was wounded in the Easter Rising. Later he became Chairman of the anti-Treaty IRA Army Council, and took a leading role in the occupation of the Four Courts, after which he was captured. On 8 December 1922 he was one of four prisoners shot without trial by the Free State Government, in reprisal for the shooting of Sean Hales TD on his way to the Dail: ‘Rory and Liam and Dick and Joe ...’ Some fold marks, otherwise very good. Rory O’Connor’s signature is extremely rare.

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