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 to attack the Oranmore barracks on the Tuesday morning of the 1916 Easter Rising. [1] The company failed to capture the barracks, and joined 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]
^Land and Revolution: Nationalist Politics in the West of Ireland 1891-1921, Fergus Campbell, Oxford University Press, 2005; ISBN0-19-927324-3 page 210.
^Galway City Council - Heritage Magazine - Summer 2006 - Page 27 20 November 2007 at the Wayback Machine[1] 2007-11-20 at the Wayback Machine
^Hoare, Pádraig (7 March 2018). "Businesses urged to engage with Revenue after storm". Irish Examiner. Retrieved 23 June 2020.
^The History of Galway, by Sean Spellissy, ISBN0-9534683-3-X, Celtic Bookshop, (1999), page 131.
^Pádraig Ó Fathaigh's War of Independence: Recollections of a Galway Gaelic Leaguer, Timothy G. McMahon, Cork University Press, 2000; ISBN1-85918-145-7
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