From Michelangelo da Caravaggio to Michael Collins and from The Taking of Christ to The Terrorising of Clarke, Italian Renaissance Art and the Irish Republican Army aren’t topics often discussed in the same breath. But an act of revenge and the grief it caused would link forever the names of Collins, Clarke and Caravaggio with District Inspector and Dr. Lea-Wilson and grant for them all a unique place in the history of art and of the Irish Revolution.
References:
Liam Tobin - http://www.militaryarchives.ie/collections/online-collections/bureau-of-military-history-1913-1921/reels/bmh/BMH.WS1753.pdf
Joseph Sweeney - https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/easterrising/witnesses/wh04.shtml
Caravaggio and the IRA - http://thelondondead.blogspot.com/2014/09/caravaggio-and-ira-percival-lea-wilson.html
Harry Clarke’s Sublime Lea-Wilson Window - https://roaringwaterjournal.com/2020/06/13/transcending-violence-harry-clarkes-sublime-lea-wilson-window/
Beyond the Lost Caravaggio - http://www.mythomorph.com/wp/beyond-the-lost-caravaggio/
Settling old scores from 1916 - https://www.independent.ie/regionals/wexfordpeople/lifestyle/settling-old-scores-from-1916-30788744.html
T. Ryle Dwyer - “The Squad”
Tim Pat Coogan - “”Michael Collins
Charles Townshend - “Easter 1916”
Joseph E.A. Connell Jnr - “Michael Collins”
Social Media:
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Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/maniacalinc
Main Sources:
Military Archives - http://www.bureauofmilitaryhistory.ie
Century Ireland - https://www.rte.ie/centuryireland
Diarmuid Lynch, Irish Revolutionary - http://diarmuidlynch.weebly.com/
Atlas of the Irish Revolution
Maurice Walsh - “Bitter Freedom”
Charles Townshend - "The Republic"
Michael Hopkinson - ”The Irish War of Independence”
Diarmuid Ferriter - “A Nation and not a Rabble”
Richard Abbot - “Police Casualties in Ireland 1919 - 1922”
Photos:
Military Archives
NLI Flickr account
Wiki Commons