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shell casing / Phibsboro railway bridge, 1916

Portion of shell case, which tore the clothes of Mr Albert Bigger at Doyle's Corner, Phibsboro. The shell was fired from the Phoenix Park at a party of Irish Volunteers who were attempting to blow up the railway bridge at Phibsboro towards the middle of Easter Week, 1916.

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