{"id":22372,"date":"2022-10-29T03:02:05","date_gmt":"2022-10-29T02:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/event\/war-of-friends-1922-1923\/"},"modified":"2022-10-29T03:02:05","modified_gmt":"2022-10-29T02:02:05","slug":"war-of-friends-1922-1923","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/war-of-friends-1922-1923\/","title":{"rendered":"War of Friends, 1922-1923"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 8 December 1922, Liam Mellows and three other prominent Republican leaders were executed in reprisal for an IRA attack on two politicians, P\u00e1draic \u00d3 M\u00e1ille from Connemara and Se\u00e1n Hales from Cork, in which the latter was killed. Former military comrades and political allies, \u00d3 M\u00e1ille had served under Mellows during the Easter Rising in Galway, and both men had represented the county in the first and second D\u00e1il \u00c9ireann. In advance of the centenary anniversary of these tragic events, join Galway historians John Cunningham, M\u00edche\u00e1l \u00d3 Fathartaigh and Cormac \u00d3 Comhra\u00ed, at the Mick Lally Theatre on Druid Lane, as they discuss the Irish Civil War and the lives and civil war viewpoints of P\u00e1draic \u00d3 M\u00e1ille (1876\u20131946) and Liam Mellows (1892\u20131922). A Q&amp;A will follow the presentations. 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