Death and retribution

By Arthur Matthews Kevin O’Higgins, the Free State minister for justice and vice-president of the Executive, died a violent death on 10 July 1927. On his way to Mass on a sunny Sunday morning, he set off on the short walk along Cross Avenue, Booterstown. Unluckily for O’Higgins, three IRA gunmen, Timothy Coughlan, Archie Doyle ... Read more

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