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www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=100549202 same name buried in Canada 1982 (90) years. Birth: 1892 Death: 1982 Family links: Spouse: May Butler Gore-Hickman (1895 - 1976)* *Calculated relationship Burial: Mountain View Cemetery Lethbridge Lethbridge Census Division Alberta, Canada Created by: Bear Hugs Record added: Nov 11, 2012 Find A Grave Memorial# 100549202

Lieutenant Thomas O'Brien GORE-HICKMAN The Royal Dublin Fusiliers. Date: 1914-1919; 1936. From discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/details/C10981...

From "Raids and Rallies" (Ernie O'Malley):

(1921) "Dr Finegan was referring to five officers of the Leitrim brigade - a portion or a column under Seán Connolly from the Longford Brigade - who had been killed by the British on 11 March at Selton Hill, County Leitrim after information of their presence had been given to Thomas Gore-Hickman, the District Inspector of the RIC in Mohill

From: "Rising out: Seán Connolly of Longford (1890-1921)" (Ernie O'Malley, Cormac K. H. O'Malley)

the lorry was the oridinary passing lorry of troops, he went up towards it for it had halted outside of McCullough's gate. A police officer, Thomas Gore-Hickman, the RIC District Inspector in Mohill, got out of a car which was behind the soldiers and walked over to Flynn: 'Did you see any armed men around here', he asked? 'No, I didn't, I was at school all day'...

Here is young Thomas at home in Clare in 1901's census You can see that his Uncle Thomas is an O'Brien. In the Landed Estates Database, we have the Hickman family of Kilmore House, and a Gore connection: Francis William Gore of Tyredagh assumed the surname of Hickman in 1878. Why? Because: In 1824, Mary Browne, daughter of Edmond and Anne Browne, married Francis Gore and their descendants eventually inherited the Hickman estate by the will of Anne’s brother, Poole Hickman, who died in 1842. He was succeeded by his sister, Letitia Hickman, who held an estate comprised of at least nine townlands in the parishes of Killimer and Kilmurry at the time of Griffith’s Valuation. So Francis Gore married into the Hickman family, and when Francis inherited the Hickman lands, he assumed the name Hickman (a condition of the will, maybe?), and gave just that name in the census of 1901 and 1911 . Thomas evidently felt he should restore the Gore name, as well as double-barrelling with his mothers surname [Edit:]Francis's father was named Francis Gore too, so I'm not sure which of them inherited/changed his name...

Hickman’s eldest son Thomas had joined the Auxialiaries and gained a notorious reputation in the Longford / Roscommon area. In response to the burning of the family homes and businesses of known I.R.A. members by the R.I.C., the I.R.A. had begun arson attacks on the family homes of men who had joined the Black & Tans and the Auxiliaries in both Britain and Ireland. District Inspector Thomas Hickman a member of the R.I.C. Auxiliary Division There are a number of possible motives why Kilmore was burnt; Hickman’s unpopularity, jealousy of Behan as cited by the R.I.C., the use of the house by the British Army, or his son’s membership of the Auxiliaries. On 5 July 1921, Hazelwood House in Quin, another property belonging to Hickman, was burned down by the I.R.A. Hazelwood and its contents were valued at one hundred thousand pounds. Your picture is posted here about half way down. www.warofindependence.info/?page_id=225

Married to James Connolly?

Niall McAuley Too old in 1914, and already long since married.

08:45 ? Negotiable ...

Only one suitable candidate by that name in 1911: Lily Reynolds

No wedding or engagement ring.

The Igoe Gang, successor to the Cairo Gang “Eventually, another group of intelligence operatives, known officially as the Identification Branch of the Combined Intelligence Service (CIS), took the fight to the IRA. The group was known informally as The Igoe Gang, named after its leader Head Constable Eugene Igoe, who was from County Mayo. Igoe reported to Colonel Ormonde Winter. The Igoe Gang consisted of RIC personnel drawn from different parts of Ireland who patrolled the streets of Dublin in plain clothes, looking for wanted men. The Igoe Gang posed a serious threat to Collins's apparatus and even caught a Volunteer whom Collins had brought to Dublin to identify Igoe. The Igoe gang has been accused of using excessive force while interrogating prisoners – prior to his hanging, IRA man Thomas Traynor (a member of The Forgotten Ten) was badly beaten by members of the gang. The Gang was never penetrated by the IRA. Igoe later conducted secret service operations for Special Branch over many years in other countries, but never returned to his farm in Mayo out of fear of reprisal. Brigadier General Winter appeared on Igoe's behalf to obtain an increase in his pension in view of his many services to the Crown in Ireland and elsewhere.” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo_Gang

Head Constable Eugene Igoe appears in the Marked Men section of this online exhibition: From Turmoil to Truce, photographs of the War of Independence

www.anphoblacht.com/contents/27960

Carol Maddock That is very interesting Carol, looks like something to browse through on a wet and windy day! If only we had a wet and windy day like today?????

via LOC Igoe’s boss, Sir Ormonde de l'Épée Winter