Joe Howley

Joseph Howley, from Oranmore, County Galway, was a member of the Irish Volunteers. He mobilized and led a combined contingent of 106 Volunteers from Oranmore Including Tommy Furey and neighboring Maree on Easter Tuesday morning of the 1916 Easter Rising. Their plan was to attack the Oranmore barracks.[1] The company failed to capture the barracks, and his men to join those of Liam Mellows.[2] According to the reports, Howley was the revenue collector-general.[3]

Howley was shot dead by the R.I.C at the Broadstone Railway Station in Dublin, Ireland, on 4 December 1920[4] A special Intelligence Unit attached to the RIC known as the Cairo Gang was responsible.[5] A memorial statue to him was erected in 1947 in Howley Court in Oranmore;[6] its inscription reads:

Comdt. Joseph Howley. He led his volunteers in Easter week 1916 and was murdered by English agents at the Broadstone Dublin 1920. Erected in 1947 by his old comrades of 1916 - 1920.[7]

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References
  1. Land and Revolution: Nationalist Politics in the West of Ireland 1891-1921, Fergus Campbell, Oxford University Press, 2005; ISBN 0-19-927324-3 page 210.
  2. Galway City Council - Heritage Magazine - Summer 2006 - Page 27 Archived 20 November 2007 at the Wayback Machine Archived 2007-11-20 at the Wayback Machine
  3. Hoare, Pádraig (7 March 2018). "Businesses urged to engage with Revenue after storm". Irish Examiner. Retrieved 23 June 2020.
  4. The History of Galway, by Sean Spellissy, ISBN 0-9534683-3-X, Celtic Bookshop, (1999), page 131.
  5. Pádraig Ó Fathaigh's War of Independence: Recollections of a Galway Gaelic Leaguer, Timothy G. McMahon, Cork University Press, 2000; ISBN 1-85918-145-7
  6. Howley Statue Picture
  7. IrishWarMemorials.ie - Howley Memorial - Oranmore
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