#SeanHales, #FreeState #TD whose shooting launched the orgy of #IllegalExecutions in #CivilWar, intended to call for a #truce https://www.irishtimes.com/history/century/2022/12/11/td-shot-dead-100-years-ago-had-planned-to-seek-civil-war-truce-new-records-suggest/
His #dividedloyalties family wrote: “We view with horror and disgust, the executions of four Irishmen, Richard Barrett, Liam Mellows, Joseph McKelvey and Rory O’Connor as a reprisal for the death of Sean Hales, our dearly beloved brother, and we think it is criminal folly to believe such methods will end the strife in our land.”