Peadar Clancy, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Peadar Clancy

Irish republican

Date of Birth: 09-Nov-1888

Date of Death: 21-Nov-1920

Profession: revolutionary

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Peadar Clancy

  • Peadar 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 British 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 spies by the Squad unit of the Irish Republican Army and the killing of 14 people in Croke Park by British forces.

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