iamBullivant<p>Francis Sheehy Skeffington, a pacifist, was murdered by the British forces on 26th April 1916 after being apprehended whilst trying to stop looting during the Easter Uprising. He and Thomas Dickson and Patrick McIntyre, both non-combatant journalists, were executed by firing squad. He was a friend and schoolmate of James Joyce and the real-life model for a character in Joyce's novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Ireland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ireland</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/IrishHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IrishHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/FrancisSheehySkeffington" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FrancisSheehySkeffington</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/EasterUprising" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EasterUprising</span></a></p>