On Monday the 2nd of March 1920 at 9.30pm 120 soldiers of the Royal Berkshire Regiment were returning from a performance at the theatre, the soldiers were singing Rule Britannia and God Save the King, when they were attacked by a hostile crowd on South Richmond Street Dublin.

A man and a woman were killed by revolver shots and another man was injured by a bullet wound in the wrist. One soldier was shot through the chest and four soldiers wounded by missiles. The two dead civilians were taken to the Meath Hospital, they were identified as: Eilen Hendrick aged 19 of Francis Street. It had previously been believed that the dead girls name was Margaret Dowling. And Michael Cullen aged 20 a van driver from Charlemont Mall, Charlemont Street, Dublin.

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