During the Bloody Sunday action to wipe out a group of British spies in Dublin , on 21 November 1920 , Patrick Moran headed the IRA squad that killed two men in the Gresham Hotel in O'Connell Street : Leonard Aidan Wilde , a former British Consul in Spain , and Patrick Joseph MacCormack , a well-known vet and ex-jockey . MacCormack 's mother , Kate , a veteran of the Land War and relative of Michael Davitt who lived in Dun Laoghaire , mounted a vigorous campaign to clear her son 's name of the allegation that he was a British spy
Bloody Sunday
Bloody Sunday (1920)
Patrick Moran (Irish republican)