On the night of 6th March 1921 The Lord Mayor of Limerick, George Clancy, his predecessor, Michael O’Callaghan, and another prominent nationalist, Joseph O’Donoghue, were killed by policemen in Limerick during curfew hours. Among Clancy's friends at the university were James Joyce and Clancey features as Michael Davin, in Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

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