Maurice O'Neill (Irish republican)

Maurice O'Neill (1917-1942) was an Irish Republican Army (IRA) Captain, captured in 1942 after a shoot out with Irish police (Garda Síochána), and promptly tried and executed, one of only two people executed in independent Ireland for a non-murder offence.

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