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Fitzgerald Leo. Volunteer, B Company, 3rd Battalion, Dublin Brigade, Irish Volunteers. He was Killed in Action on the 14th of March 1921 aged 31 during the War of Independence, he was part of an IRA unit keeping guard over a meeting attended by Sean McBride at Saint Andrews Club, 144 Brunswick Street, the meeting was raided by Police and he was killed in the ensuing gun battle. Fought at Boland’s Mills Boland’s Bakery during the Rising. from Irish Medals.

Most of his family were also involved in the War of Independence, according to Irish Medals. He’s here with his family in Great Brunswick St. (now Pearse St.) 1901. By 1911, most of them at Gaelicised their name.

More background story to the "Pearse Street Ambush" - www.theirishstory.com/2015/01/26/the-pearse-street-ambush...

There is a commemorative plaque there now - streetview - goo.gl/maps/DQcyT8ukDbXKfixo8

The house is now part of Dublin City Library & Archive - via Dublin City Libraries

Via Trove only one article describing military and auxiliary forces searching mourners and the church vaults at a special Mass for Leo Fitzgerald and David Kelly - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/212397212

Flickr is sometimes amazing! Is this block of flats in Hogan Place Dublin named after Leo Fitzgerald? via picturesbyJOE

rarely do you see the phrase "killed in action on *** street", so specific and so personal. Love the Irish!

I'm interested by the 'T. Clarke' name over the shop - is it Tom Clarke of Rising fame or just a coincidence? It's interested to see so many well-dressed women standing around, so I suspect that's some sort of after-event. My mother is from Bray and she tells me that Kevin Barry's mother lived there and when she was a child she would see her walking around the town, and people were always doffing their hats to her and she was considered a tragic figure. I think that might have been as last as the 1960s. Had he lived Kevin Barry would undoubtedly have reached a ripe old age, although he might have not been very well known. He died very young.

My grandfather used to sing this after a few glasses: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysH86MMwPs8&list=RDysH86MMwPs8

I think the big door at right may be Monk's bakery on Church Street/North king Street?

Patrick Monk’s Bakery at 79-80 Upper Church Street, near the corner of North King Street, Dublin,

Flickr is sometimes amazing - via cellleader