Three people shot dead by British soldiers on Bachelors Walk
Three people shot dead by British soldiers on Bachelors Walk More than 30 others injured as 21 soldiers shoot into crowd Dublin, 27 July 1914 - Three Dubliners were shot dead yesterday by British soldiers on Bachelors Walk in Dublin yesterday evening. Mary Duffy (50), Patrick Quinn (46) and James Brennan (18) were killed when soldiers fired on a crowd who were throwing stones and abusing the King’s Own Scottish Borderers as they returned to barracks. More than 30 other people are in hospital, some with serious injuries, including men who were bayoneted by the soldiers. The incident on Bachelors Walk came in the wake of the successful gun running which took place at Howth by the Irish Volunteers earlier in the day. As hundreds of Volunteers were coming back into the city along the Howth Road, they found their way blocked by two cordons of police and by soldiers from the King’ Own Scottish Borderers. William Harrell, the Assistant Commissioner of the Dublin Metropolitan Police, ordered h...