The Archive · 1921

Seven o'clock: Bryan and Doyle

Eight o'clock: Flood and Ryan

The last two men executed were both 19 years of age.

Awep Crowp oF 20,000.

The first official intimation that the sentences had been. carried out was conveyed in the usual official notice which was posted on the gate of the prison at twenty minutes past eight.

The spectacle outside Mountjoy was the most amazing that has been witnessed since the execution of Kevin Barry five or six months before.

The crowd throughout remained

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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