Post Office, Dublin

Four Courts, Dublin

Family legend has it that a distant cousin by the name of Nelligan fought with the IRA at the Post Office during the 1916 uprising. He subsequently fought for the IRA side during the Irish Civil War, seeing action at the Four Courts.

He retired to the North of Ireland where he opened a pub. In the 1950s the local IRA blew his pub up, possibly as a reward for long service, but more probably because he had been serving customs officers.