On 29th April 1916 Michael Joseph O’Rahilly, ‘The O’Rahilly’ (an Ua Rathghaille) died. He was a republican who took part in the Easter Rising. He was killed in a charge on a British machine gun post covering the retreat from the Dublin GPO during the fighting.

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