JAMES CONNOLLY
James Connolly arrived in Dublin from Scotland with his wife Lille and their three children sometime in May 1886. They rented a single room in a tenement slum at number 75 Charlemont Street, directly across from where Tom Kelly Flats are situated now on Dublin’s Southside. Like Connolly’s original place of birth, these were some of the worst slums in Europe; at the time Dublin was in serious decay, overflowing with poverty, death and disease.
Civilian Casualties
An interview with Breda Cullen
On Sunday the 21st March, 1920, having left his sweetheart home to her house on Charlemont Street, Michael Cullen was making his way home travelling up by Gordon Place lane and out on to Richmond Street.
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These were some of the last known steps Michael would ever take and exactly what happened next we will never know. But what we do know is that on this ill-fated date a young man and a woman, Eilen Hendrick, would both meet their fate as their young lives came to a tragic end at the hands of the notorious Black and Tans.
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In this transcribed interview we talk to the niece of Michael, Breda Cullen, about her recollections of the incident and the tragic circumstances which unfolded that led to the death of the man who she fondly remembered as, Uncle Mickey.
The Murder of
Michael Cullen
REBEL CHARLO MAP
Points of interest
