The Killing of Sir Henry Wilson: an Irish Tragedy by Prof Fearghal McGarry

On 11 October 2021, the Irish Linen Centre and Lisburn Museum hosted a free online talk, titled 'The killing of Sir Henry Wilson: an Irish Tragedy', with Professor Fearghal McGarry, Professor of Modern Irish History at Queen's University Belfast.

Professor McGarry discussed the assassination of Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson, chief security advisor to the new Northern Ireland government, on 22 June 1922. The assassination, carried out by the IRA, shocked public opinion and hastened the onset of the Irish Civil War.

The talk explored the reasons for Wilson’s killing, the fate of his killers, and the interconnected nature of the different conflicts that took place during the period 1912-1923.

[seanohare]

Ferghal mcgarry is a top notch historian very interesting and informative well done

[michaelgallagher]

Sam Maguire was an Irish Church of Ireland from West cork.

[nedhappened]

Henry Wilson was from Ballinalee outsde Granard in County Longford, beside General Sean McKeon the Blacksmith of Bsllinalee who fought on the other side with the IRA and local leader of North Longford Flying Column. The only area outside Dublin to side with Michael Collins in pro treaty and who was engaged to Kitty Kiernan from Granard.