1. Peadar Clancy 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 during the War of Independence.
20 Facts About Peadar Clancy
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The Peadar Clancy home had been the meeting place for local Fenians since the 1860s.
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From a young age Peadar Clancy was a keen Gaelic Leaguer and was engrossed by national activities.
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On coming to Dublin, Peadar Clancy joined the Irish Volunteers upon their inception, becoming a Volunteer in "CO" company, 1st Battalion, Dublin Brigade.
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Peadar Clancy was to distinguish himself in combat, when, with a group of Volunteers, he repelled an infantry attack at Church Street Bridge and forced an enemy retreat towards the Phoenix Park on Easter Monday.
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Shortly afterwards, Peadar Clancy personally burnt out a sniper from a house, and during the course of the Rising single-handedly captured Lord Dunsany and Colonel Lindsay.
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Peadar Clancy remained in English jails until June 1917, and upon his return to Dublin he helped to re-organise the Volunteers.
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Peadar Clancy took part in de Valera's election campaign, and addressed a number of meetings throughout his native county in the summer of 1917.
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Peadar Clancy was attached to GHQ where he held the rank of Director of Munitions.
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Peadar Clancy was involved in the Republican breakout from Strangeways Prison in Manchester, England on 25 October 1919.
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On 5 February 1920, members of the Squad, under Peadar Clancy, led a raid on the navy and army canteen board garage.
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Peadar Clancy's unit managed to capture a number of British soldiers and a large quantity of weapons and ammunition.
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Also with Peadar Clancy that day was a young Volunteer named Kevin Barry who, at 18, was to become the first Volunteer to be executed since the Easter Rising.
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Peadar Clancy was at Nelson's Pillar when he saw the trucks filled with soldiers pass, he surmised that the shop was to be raided, but had no way of warning his comrades.
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Peadar Clancy then said he saw Clancy with a shovel, and that Clancy was attempting to strike another guard.
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Peadar Clancy said McKee had no bayonet wounds, but there was a bullet lodged underneath his skin on the right of his chest.
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The body of Peadar Clancy, according to Daniel McCarthy, was bullet ridden; while Sean O'Mahony contends that McKee had been bayoneted in the liver, and had suffered from a number of broken ribs, abrasions to the face and many bullet wounds.
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The bodies of McKee and Peadar Clancy were laid side by side at a requiem mass in the Pro-Cathedral.
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Peadar Clancy was 32 years old at the time of his death.
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When Peadar Clancy was imprisoned in Mountjoy prison in 1920, he led a hunger strike with his fellow prisoners.