Appeal to find relatives of Killarney waitress who was last victim of War of Independence

Hannah Carey was fatally shot on the morning of July 11, 1921, by a bullet from a passing RIC lorry

Our photograph shows a camouflaged Vickers Machine Gun manned by members of the Royal Fusiliers protect the train carrying supplies and personnell near Headford, Killarney in 1921.

A Killarney waitress was the last person to be shot in the War of Independence and an appeal has gone out to trace her relatives as her anniversary approaches.

Hannah Carey, a 48-year-old waitress at the Imperial Hotel in College St, had stepped onto the street on Monday, July 11, 1921, when she was fatally wounded by a bullet from a passing RIC lorry.