Tomás MacCurtain, the Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Cork, was shot dead in front of his wife and son by a group of men with blackened faces on 20th March 1920. The murderers were subsequently found by the official inquest into the event to be members of the Royal Irish Constabulary. MacCurtain was also commandant of the Cork No. 1 Brigade of the IRA.

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