Drumboe Martyrs Song
- 4 months ago
In memory of four brave Anti-Treaty Irish Republican Army Volunteers who lost their lives in the Irish Civil War. Officer Commanding Second Northern Division Charles Daly (26), Lieutenant Timothy Ó Sullivan (23), Lieutenant Daniel Enright (23), all 3 originally from Co. Kerry & Commandant Seán Larkin (26) from Co. Derry.
In the dead of night on 2 November 1922 exhausted and on the run while attempting to mobilise anti-treaty volunteers from the northern counties of Derry & Tyrone all four men were captured when their safe house at the foothills of Mount Errigal Co.Donegal was surrounded by overwhelming Free State Forces.
In January 1923 following a Free State Courts Martial all four were sentenced to death which was carried out on the cold early morning of 14th March 1923 just six weeks prior to the ending of Civil War hostilities when the men were taken from their cells at the official Free State Army Headquarters at Drumboe Castle, Stranorlar, Co. Donegal and marched 300 yards into the nearby Drumboe Woods where they were summarily put to death by firing squad and their remains dumped into pre prepared graves
In the dead of night on 2 November 1922 exhausted and on the run while attempting to mobilise anti-treaty volunteers from the northern counties of Derry & Tyrone all four men were captured when their safe house at the foothills of Mount Errigal Co.Donegal was surrounded by overwhelming Free State Forces.
In January 1923 following a Free State Courts Martial all four were sentenced to death which was carried out on the cold early morning of 14th March 1923 just six weeks prior to the ending of Civil War hostilities when the men were taken from their cells at the official Free State Army Headquarters at Drumboe Castle, Stranorlar, Co. Donegal and marched 300 yards into the nearby Drumboe Woods where they were summarily put to death by firing squad and their remains dumped into pre prepared graves