At 7 am on Friday, 8 December 1922, Joe McKelvey wrote from Mountjoy Prison to my great-grandmother, Isabella Sullivan, at Walmer, Andersonstown, Belfast. Within hours, he and three fellow prisoners – Liam Mellows, Rory O’Connor and Dick Barrett – would be executed as a reprisal for the assassination of pro-Treaty TD Seán Hales.
Joe McKelvey was born in …
