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1923

  • Aftermath: Headford Barracks Attack

    Aftermath: Headford Barracks Attack

    A compensation claim was made by a shop owner whose property was damaged during the attack.
  • An account of the ambush at Ballyturin House, 1921

    An account of the ambush at Ballyturin House, 1921

    From the National Folklore Collection, UCD
  • Ballydugan House

    Ballydugan House

    Landed Estates Database
  • Deadly Attack Headford Barracks

    Deadly Attack Headford Barracks

    An account of the events of 8 April 1923 in the Connacht Tribune
  • Firing Squads Bring the Civil War to a Close

    Firing Squads Bring the Civil War to a Close

    From the Galway Advertiser, 24 November, 2011
  • Headford Barracks

    Headford Barracks

    Site of a mine assault by Anti-treaty Forces in April of 1923
  • Headford Fight -- Inquest

    Headford Fight -- Inquest

    Connacht Tribune 14 April 1923
  • Lovely Annaghdown

    Lovely Annaghdown

    A ballad penned in honour of Martin Moylan, one of the six executed in Tuam on 11 April, 1923
  • Pension records for John Higgins

    Pension records for John Higgins

    Anti-Treaty Soldier killed in the attack on the Free State Barracks, Headford
  • Recollections of General Tom Maguire

    Recollections of General Tom Maguire

    Leader of Anti-Treaty troops and brother of one of those executed at Tuam 11 April 1923
  • The Headford Fight

    The Headford Fight

    A report from the Tuam Herald, 14 April 1923
  • The Tuam Martyrs

    The Tuam Martyrs

    An account from a local lady who grew up near the site of the Workhouse
  • Tuam Martyrs Memorial

    Tuam Martyrs Memorial

    At the site of the execution of six anti-treaty soldiers
  • Tuam's sad role at the end of the Irish Civil War

    Tuam's sad role at the end of the Irish Civil War

    Connacht Tribune, 18 April, 1998
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