Letters to the Editor: Highlighting lesser known casualties of War of Independence

Suspected members of the IRA outside Bandon military barracks, Co Cork. The men were photographed for intelligence purposes by the military. Picture: Mercier Archives

In this decade for commemorating events of a century ago there has been much media attention for the high-profile deaths of men in uniform at Soloheadbeg and the innocents of Bloody Sunday, but little mention of hundreds of other civilian casualties through the War of Independence.

On February 9, 1921 the IRA killed Alfred Charles Reilly, a 58-year-old prominent Cork businessman.