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1923-51
Civilian Jeremiah Dinan
Civilian Jeremiah Dinan (aged about 24) of Gowlane North near Donoughmore (Gowlane North)
Date of incident: 28 June 1923
Sources: Death Certificate (Clonmoyle District, Union of Macroom), 30 June 1923; CE, 30 June, 2 July 1923; FJ, 30 June 1923; Belfast Newsletter, 30 June 1923; II, 3 July 1923; SS, 7 July 1923; Keane (2017), 361-62, 423.
Note: Jeremiah Dinan, eldest son of Thomas and Lizzie Dinan, was mortally wounded at about 8 p.m. on the evening of 28 June when, near the family’s farmyard at Gowlane North in the Donoughmore district, his father picked up a grenade or bomb that soon exploded, killing him, fatally wounding his son Jeremiah (he died on 30 June) and also injuring a second son less seriously. See SS, 7 July 1923; Keane (2017), 361-62, 423. According to the account in the Freeman’s Journal, the object that Thomas Dinan had picked up looked like a tin can but ‘was apparently a roughly-manufactured bomb’. Thomas Dinan and two of his sons had reportedly been returning from a wake at Donoughmore when the tragic accident occurred. See FJ, 30 June 1923.
‘How the bomb or can containing the explosives which is responsible for the fatality came to be in the yard is a mystery, for no member of the family was concerned in the recent trouble, which, as is well known, was rather acute in the locality. It is expected that an inquiry will be held. The greatest sympathy is extended on all sides to Mrs Dinan and the other members of the family in their terrible bereavement.’ See CE, 30 June 1923.
