Joseph Howley, from Oranmore, County Galway, was a member of the Irish Volunteers. He mobilized and led a combined contingent of 106 Volunteers from Oranmore to attack the Oranmore barracks on the Tuesday morning of the 1916 Easter Rising. Land and Revolution: Nationalist Politics in the West of Ireland 1891-1921, Fergus Campbell, Oxford University Press, 2005; page 210. The company failed to capture the barracks, and joined those of Liam Mellows.Galway City Council - Heritage Magazine - Summer 2006 - Page 27
Howley was shot dead by the R.I.C at the Broadstone Railway Station in Dublin, Ireland, on 4 December 1920.The History of Galway, by Sean Spellissy, , Celtic Bookshop, (1999), page 131. A special Intelligence Unit attached to the RIC known as the Cairo Gang was responsible.Pádraig Ó Fathaigh's War of Independence: Recollections of a Galway Gaelic Leaguer, Timothy G. McMahon, Cork University Press, 2000; A memorial statue to him was erected in 1947 in Howley Court in Oranmore;Howley Statue Picture its inscription reads:
See also Pádraig Ó Fathaigh
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