Frank Busteed
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‘She never blinked an eye’ – An Irishman’s Diary on the IRA’s killing of Mary Lindsay in 1921
- Opinion
- January 25, 2021, 19:01
Mary (Maria Georgina) Lindsay was just 60 when she executed by the IRA in March 1921, yet in the loyal press in Ireland and Britain she was a “gallant(...)

Kilmichael ambush largest in War of Independence
- Heritage
- October 15, 2019, 00:00
County Cork Incident Kilmichael ambush Date November 28th, 1920 Fatalities 12 Read full county by county breakdown here Cork was(...)

Cobh attack on unarmed British soldiers in 1924 recalled in new book
- Irish News
- August 7, 2017, 17:19
It was described by the then president of Dáil Éireann, William T Cosgrave, as “a dastardly outrage” without parallel “in its deliberation and its sav(...)

Execution of elderly Protestant woman a basis for pension claim
- Politics
- October 3, 2014, 01:46
A leading figure in the War of Independence in Cork cited his role in the killing of an elderly Protestant woman and her driver as part of his claim f(...)