Joe Howley Explained
Joseph Howley, from Oranmore, County Galway, was a member of the Irish Volunteers. He mobilized and led a combined contingent of 106 Volunteers from Oranmore to attack the Oranmore barracks on the Tuesday morning of the 1916 Easter Rising. [1] The company failed to capture the barracks, and joined those of Liam Mellows.[2] According to the reports, Howley was the revenue collector-general.[3]
Howley was shot dead by the R.I.C at the Broadstone Railway Station in Dublin, Ireland, on 4 December 1920.[4] A special Intelligence Unit attached to the RIC known as the Cairo Gang was responsible.[5] A memorial statue to him was erected in 1947 in Howley Court in Oranmore;[6] its inscription reads:
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Notes and References
- Land and Revolution: Nationalist Politics in the West of Ireland 1891-1921, Fergus Campbell, Oxford University Press, 2005; page 210.
- http://www.galwaycity.ie/AllServices/Heritage/Magazines/2006Magazines/FileEnglish,3309,en.pdf Galway City Council - Heritage Magazine - Summer 2006 - Page 27
- News: Businesses urged to engage with Revenue after storm. Irish Examiner. Pádraig. Hoare. 2018-03-07. 2020-06-23.
- The History of Galway, by Sean Spellissy,, Celtic Bookshop, (1999), page 131.
- Pádraig Ó Fathaigh's War of Independence: Recollections of a Galway Gaelic Leaguer, Timothy G. McMahon, Cork University Press, 2000;
- http://travel.webshots.com/photo/1193406912032916938AKKqNP Howley Statue Picture
