O’Hanlon, Feargal / South, Seán [Feargal Ó hAnnluain & Seán Sabhat].

Two vintage Memorial Plaques for the two IRA Volunteers Fergal O’Hanlon and Seán South, commemorating their deaths during a raid against a Royal Ulster Constabulary barracks in Brookeborough, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, on New Year’s Day, 1957.

Ireland, c.1957. 21 cm x 28 cm. Two plaques with lettering and story in gaelic ! Green and yellow plaques with ribbons in the colours of the irish flag. The plaque of Fergal O’Hanlon with some rubbing and slight damage. The plaque showing Seán South in very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

Brookeborough raid: Aged 20, Fergal O’Hanlon was killed along with Seán South while taking part in an attack on the Royal Ulster Constabulary (R.U.C.) barracks in Brookeborough, County Fermanagh, during the Border Campaign. Several other IRA members were wounded in the botched attack. The IRA fled the scene in a dumper truck. They abandoned it near the border. They left South and O’Hanlon, both then unconscious, in a cow byre, and crossed into the Republic of Ireland on foot for help for their comrades. The wounded IRA men were treated as “car crash victims” by sympathetic staff in the Mater Misericordiae Hospital in Dublin. The events and personalities are sympathetically recalled in Dominic Behan’s ballad The Patriot Game. (Wikipedia)

• Keywords: Catalogue Irish History Six – General Irish History · Catalogue Irish History Three – From Famine to Free State · Clann na Poblachta · Collection Tadhg Ó Murchú (This is a book from his personal reference library) · From the library of Tadgh Ó Murchu · Gaeilge · Gaelic · Gaelic Language · Gaelic League · History of the IRA (Irish Republican Army) · IRA · Irish History – Rare · Legion of Mary · Sinn Féin
• Language: Gaeilge
• Inventory Number: 100977AB

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