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Irish Civil War: Irish nationalist author Erskine Childers was executed by the Irish Free State for illegally carrying a semi-automatic pistol.
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Irish Civil War
1922–1923 conflict between factions of the IRA
The Irish Civil War was a conflict that followed the Irish War of Independence and accompanied the establishment of the Irish Free State, an entity independent from the United Kingdom but within the British Empire.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Irish nationalism
Political movement
Irish nationalism is a nationalist political movement which, in its broadest sense, asserts that the people of Ireland should govern Ireland as a sovereign state. Since the mid-19th century, Irish nationalism has largely taken the form of cultural nationalism based on the…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Erskine Childers (author)
Irish nationalist and author (1870–1922)
Robert Erskine Childers, usually known as Erskine Childers, was an English-born Irish nationalist who established himself as a writer with accounts of the Second Boer War, the novel The Riddle of the Sands about German preparations for a sea-borne invasion of England, and…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Irish Free State
State in north-west Europe from 1922 to 1937
The Irish Free State, also known by its Irish name Saorstát Éireann, was a state established in December 1922 under the Anglo-Irish Treaty of December 1921. The treaty ended the three-year Irish War of Independence between the forces of the Irish Republic – the Irish Republican…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Semi-automatic firearm
Type of firearm
A semi-automatic firearm, also called a self-loading or autoloading firearm, is a repeating firearm whose action mechanism automatically loads a following round of cartridge into the chamber and prepares it for subsequent firing, but requires the shooter to manually actuate the…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)