Peter Coughlan

Peter Coughlan

Died

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14 May 1921

Age

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48

Rank

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Constable

Force

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Royal Irish Constabulary

Cause

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Homicide - Bomb

Duty Status

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On Duty

Died at the scene after he and two colleagues, Constable John Ryle, who died the following 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.