THREE Irish men executed by British army guards in Dublin Castle on Bloody Sunday 1920 are to be commemorated this weekend.
Conor Clune along with IRA officers Peadar Clancy and Richard 'Dick' McKee were arrested on November 21 1920 after Michael Collins's IRA 'Squad' unit assassinated 14 British spies and wounded several others in a series of surprise attacks across Dublin.
British troops infamously retaliated by entering Croke Park while a Gaelic football match between Dublin and Tipperary was being played and firing indiscriminately into the crowd, resulting in the deaths of 14 people and the wounding of 60.
McKee and Clancy, who had both been closely involved with Collins in planning the 'Cairo Gang' assassinations, along with Irish language enthusiast Clune, were arrested at a house and taken to Dublin Castle where they were tortured before being shot dead.
The British authorities later claimed that the men had been killed while trying to escape but a medical examination found the men had been tortured and shot multiple times.
The Bloody Sunday murders were widely condemned, with The Times of London criticising "an army already perilously undisciplined and a police force avowedly beyond control'', adding that they had "defiled by heinous acts the reputation of England''.
A wreath-laying ceremony takes place at 11.30am on Sunday at a commemorative plaque, pictured, at Dublin Castle with an oration by a relative of Peadar Clancy.