Cathal Brugha and the plot to kill British ministers in House of Commons

From The Irish News:

Born to a Catholic mother and Protestant father in Dublin in 1874, Charles William St John Burgess's decision to join the Gaelic League in 1899 had a transformative effect on his life.

Although the wounds Brugha sustained during Easter week meant he was to walk with a limp for the rest of his life (he was killed during the Civil War), by the time of the conscription crisis of 1918 he was sufficiently recovered to head a team of IRA assassins to London. They planned to shoot the British government if they announced that they were going to begin conscripting Irishmen.

The cabinet assassination plan is rarely mentioned by historians; source material relating to it can be found in the Bureau of Military History archive, established to record the experiences of those who played a role in the events which brought about independence in the south.

He was killed in fighting in O’Connell Street during the civil war in July, 1922.

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@ Independent (Ireland) - Cathal Brugha: A Very Complex Patriot

@ Ancient Order of Hibernians - Cathal Brugha

@ Easter 1916 - Cathal Brugha

@ Wikipedia - Cathal Brugha