A DAY TO REMEMBER CUMANN NA GCLEAS LUITH NGAEDHEALACH [GAELIC ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION]. Great Challenge Match (Football) . Tipperary v. Dublin at Croke Park on Sunday November 21 1920 [Bloody...

A DAY TO REMEMBER CUMANN NA GCLEAS LUITH NGAEDHEALACH [GAELIC ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION]. Great Challenge Match (Football) . Tipperary v. Dublin at Croke Park on Sunday November 21 1920 [Bloody Sunday]. Original admission ticket, printed pink card, 3 ins. x 4 1/2 ins., worn, a scarce item. * A memento of a crucial day in the independence struggle. Early on the morning of November 20, men from Michael Collins squad raided the Dublin residences of officers whom Collins had identified as British intelligence agents, and shot 14 men dead, one of them in error, wounding four others. Later that day members of the Black-and-Tans entered Croke Park during the great challenge match then being played, and opened fire with machine-guns and rifles, killing twelve spectators and one of the players, and wounding many others. On the same day two Republican prisoners, Peadar Clancy and Dick McKee, were shot dead at Dublin Castle with Conor Clune

while trying to escape. While the body-count on each side may have been about the same, Collins coup decapitated the British intelligence effort in Dublin, while the Croke Park

shootings led to massive international publicity unfavourable to Britain.

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