From the UK National Archives, a report by the General Officer Commanding-in-Chief on the Situation in Ireland for the Week Ending 16th April 1921:
Ennis, Co.Clare, At 22.45hrs (date not visible) armed civilians threw hand grenade into Shaughnessy's public house and killed Sergt. Rees, Royal Scots, wounded a police constable and two females.
See http://www.warofindependence.net/?page_id=225 for more on this and the background.
Paddy
Grenade assault, Shaughnessy's bar, Ennis, 1921
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Re: Grenade assault, Shaughnessy's bar, Ennis, 1921
Hello Paddy,
Thanks for posting the link to my site. I posted that article about sectarianism on here also. It is interesting to note that the Shaughnessy's though attacked for their Loyalist politics ( and what the I.R.A. at the time would have seen as collaboration with the British forces ) were Catholic. This shows that the terms Protest and Loyalist were not automatically equated in the minds of Clare republicans at the time.
Padraig
Thanks for posting the link to my site. I posted that article about sectarianism on here also. It is interesting to note that the Shaughnessy's though attacked for their Loyalist politics ( and what the I.R.A. at the time would have seen as collaboration with the British forces ) were Catholic. This shows that the terms Protest and Loyalist were not automatically equated in the minds of Clare republicans at the time.
Padraig