State Papers: Family of Irish man assassinated on Bloody Sunday in 1920 awarded £7,500

An Irish man serving with the British army was shot dead by a member of Michael Collins' squad on Bloody Sunday in 1920.

The family of an Irish man assassinated by Michael Collins’ squad on Bloody Sunday in 1920 was awarded £7,500 (equivalent to €450,000 today) in compensation by the British Government.

Captain Patrick McCormack, who served in the Royal Army Veterinary Corps in the First World War, was shot dead in the Gresham Hotel in Dublin on the morning of November 21, 1920.