Joe Howley

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Joseph Howley was captain of the local Sinn Féin at Oranmore, County Galway. Howley mobilized and led a combined contingent of 106 Volunteers from Oranmore and neighboring Maree on Easter Tuesday morning of the 1916 Easter Rising. Their plan was to attack the Oranmore barracks. The company failed to capture the barracks, and his men to join those of Liam Mellows.^[1]

He was shot dead by British Forces in Dublin, Ireland, in December 1920.^{[citation needed]}

A memorial statue to Howley was erected in 1947 in Howley Court in Oranmore.^[2] The inscription reads:

Commdt. Joseph Howley. He led his volunteers in Easter week 1916 and was murdered by English agents at the Broadstone Dublin 1920.

Erected in 1947 by his old comrades of 1916 - 1920.^[3]

[edit] References

• "Land and Revolution: Nationalist Politics in the West of Ireland 1891-1921", Fergus Campbell, Oxford University Press, 2008