John Ryle

Died

15 May 1921

Age

Rank

Constable

Force

Royal Irish Constabulary

Cause

Homicide - Bomb

Duty Status

On Duty

Circumstances

Fatally wounded by the explosion of an IRA bomb thrown at the patrol he was part of.

Died in the Cork Military Hospital, following the amputation of his left leg, the day after he and two colleagues, Constable Peter Coughlan, who died the previous day, and Constable Patrick Hayes, who died on 24th May, were fatally wounded when two men, who had been waiting in a doorway, threw two bombs at their seven-man RIC patrol at the junction of O’Connell Street and Great William O’Brien Street, in the Blackpool area of Cork City, in what became known as the Blackpool Ambush.