Peadar Clancy
(1888-1920)
Died aged 32
Wikidata WikipediaPeadar Clancy (Irish: Peadar Mac Fhlannchadha; 9 November 1888 – 21 November 1920) was an Irish republican who served with the Irish Volunteers in the Four Courts garrison during the 1916 Easter Rising and was second-in-command of the Dublin Brigade of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) during the War of Independence. Along with Dick McKee and Conor Clune, he was shot dead by his guards while under detention in Dublin Castle on the eve of Sunday, 21 November 1920, a day known as Bloody Sunday that also saw the killing of a network of British intelligence agents by the Squad unit of the Irish Republican Army and the killing of 14 people in Croke Park by the Royal Irish Constabulary.
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Commemorated on 1 plaque
In memory of two Irish Patriots who gave their lives for Irish freedom. Brigadier Dick McKee and Vice-Brigadier Peadar Clancy Irish Republican Army It was from the house that stood here, 36 Gloucester Street, that Brigadier Dick McKee and Vice-Brigadier Peadar Clancy, Dublin Brigade, Irish Republican Army (IRA) were arrested along with the householder, Sean Fitzpatrick by the British Army and Black and Tans in the early hours of November 21st 1920. Both McKee and Clancy were later cruelly tortured and murdered along with IRA Volunteer Conor Clune in the Guard Room of Dublin Castle as a reprisal after IRA units smashed the elite spy network of British Intelligence during the War of Independence on Sunday November 21st 1920. Fuair siad bás ar son saoirse ng hEireann. Beidh cuímhe orthu go deo.
36 Sean McDermott Street, Dublin, Ireland where they was arrested (1920)