Killing of priest and civilian in Cork bankrupted Auxiliaries of credibility, says historian
Canon Thomas Magner and Tadhg Crowley shot dead days after the Burning of Cork
“He was clean off his head”– Frank McNally on the murder of Canon Magner in December 1920
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Identity of Auxiliary letter writer admitting burning of Cork revealed after 100 years
Charlie Schulze fought against his father’s home country Germany in first World War
The burning of Cork by the police in 1920 was hardly surprising
Amid escalating violence and fear, it took just one incident to ignite the situation
A Christmas Eve ransacking at the Cork Examiner
In 1920, a mob raided the newspaper’s offices after the publication of a controversial pastoral letter
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