SERGEANT THOMAS ENRIGHT-KILLED KILLMALLOCK 1921

feeds@yuku.com (The Third Policeman) — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 11:30:54 PST

This piece comes from the Irish Times which I thought was very interesting and in particular I found the the reference to the tatoo on Sergeant Enrights arm particularly poignant in that in english it means 'Ireland Forever'

The Irish Times - Monday, December 28, 2009

An Irishman's Diary

AN ARCHIVE PAGE from this newspaper had a transforming effect on a certain elderly reader shortly before her death in March 2008, writes DONAL MCMAHON

My mother's father, Thomas Enright, died when she was just over 15 months old. An only child, she then lost her mother when she was 10. She grew up with cousins on her mother's side in Listowel, Co Kerry, and was sent to boarding school in Sligo.

When she asked about her father, all she could find out was that he had been shot during the Troubles. She eventually married and had a family who, in turn, grew up...