{"id":19,"date":"2014-06-08T11:03:09","date_gmt":"2014-06-08T11:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=19"},"modified":"2017-01-05T01:30:27","modified_gmt":"2017-01-05T01:30:27","slug":"shot-sentry-forgotten-remembered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/shot-sentry-forgotten-remembered\/","title":{"rendered":"Shot Sentry Forgotten, Remembered"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Sean<\/a>
Sean Mac Eoin raising the tricolour at Athlone Barracks some time before the shooting of the sentry McEvaddy . Image Source: British Path\u00e9<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“I’ll wake him”<\/strong> said Mac Eoin to the British officer on finding the soldier asleep at the gate of Athlone Barracks, and promptly shot the boy through the temple. Thats how my father told me of the story of the death of young McEvaddy as was told to him by a relation of the boy soldier who was a supporter of the Free State so was not telling it to run down Mac Eoin for political or idiological reasons…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But a tale in a pub told now
\nSentry remembered, without a name
\nShot for sleeping, untrained, did not understand
\nArmy rules, punishment and shame…<\/p>\n

Was this the freedom for which Connolly died?
\nYoungster joined, a job was all he wanted, from backstreets born
\nA general, as he called himself, who won by losing and victory claimed
\nSought to impress the withdrawing British in Athlone that morn…<\/p>\n

What did the British think who themselves were faulted
\nFor shooting Connolly – and rightly so faulted – in a chair
\nThere was no warning, no chair for this boy, no final request…
\nAs Mac Eoin blew out his brains while sleeping there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“I’ll wake him” said Mac Eoin to the British officer on finding the soldier asleep at the gate of Athlone Barracks, and promptly shot the boy through the temple. Thats how my father told me of the story of the death of young McEvaddy as was told to him by …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[40,39,3427,38,3428],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irish-war-of-independence-1919-1921","tag-40","tag-athlone","tag-mc-evaddy","tag-sean-mac-eoin","tag-sentry-shot-in-athlone","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-j","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1454,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/the-free-state-flag-from-a-yacht-mast-flew\/","url_meta":{"origin":19,"position":0},"title":"The Free State Flag From a Yacht Mast Flew","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"27th October 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"The next and perhaps the most moving scene of the day was the hoisting of the Tricolour on the castle, which was not without its touch of humour. 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