Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/11/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]One of the reasons I went into Dublin was to look this incident up in the National Library of Ireland. They store all newspaper and other records there. My grandfather beside his bullet riddled car in July 1933. My nine year old mother was in bed in the house at the time and woke up as the house windows shattered. http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/IT_18071933_TFC.jpg.html Part one of article about the shooting. Please excuse poor microfilm scan. http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/IT_17071933_TFC_Article_a_sm.jpg.html Part two of article about the shooting. Please excuse poor microfilm scan. http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/IT_17071933_TFC_Article_b_sm.jpg.html Intelligence indicated it was the local IRA. This was post Civil War and the disaffected anti-treaty side had hung on to their guns, and perhaps watched too many gangster films.... My grandfather died in his bed and not from a lucky shot - it was TB instead. He was only 58 and was head of the Detective Unit. Douglas