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That's fantastic - many thanks, Johnny!  I never expected to find that amount of detail!

The nephew quoted in the inquest had the same name as her son, but her son could have been no more than 14, so I'm sure it was just a shared name.  Not sure that the son would have been in the army though, especially at such an age.

Johanna Hanley rings a bell as a family name - my grandfather was a Hanley from Ballylanders.  I think the family roots are across the border in Cork, or so he said to me, but it might be another generation or two back.  There was a falling out in the family though, so I haven't got much to go on for the Limerick side - I'll have a look at what I have and get back to you.

I was always under the impression that Tighe was a relatively common name in Roscommon in the 19th century, I've found it very difficult to find specific details in relation to my ancestors there at that time as I don't have a lot of information to go on.

My great-great-great grandfather Patrick Tighe was born in Co. Roscommon around 1841, and arrived in India in the early-mid 1860s as a British Army soldier.  He remarried a Wicklow woman after the death of his first wife, and his son (born c. 1865) also married in Ireland, so I assume he was wounded in India or discharged relatively quickly.  He's on both the 1901 and 1911 censuses in Dublin - however, I have no idea where in Roscommon he was born, so I've little to go on.  If by any chance someone is looking for an ancestor with these details, drop me a PM.

This is my first post here, although I've lurked for a bit, so hopefully I'm doing things right 

I recently discovered from family that my ancestor Mary Duffy (aged 44) was killed in the Bachelors Walk shooting of 26 July 1914 - the day of the Howth gun running.  According to lore, she was the sister of my great-great-grandmother Elizabeth Tighe (nee O'Brien).  I've also been told she is buried in the Republican plot in Glasnevin - I have the burial records to hand, but I have no idea if the details cited would refer to that plot or not. 

She can be found on the 1911 Census at 20 Lower Liffey Street, which sounds right - I got the address from a previous thread here on the Bachelors Walk shootings - with her husband, son, and nephew Thomas Tighe (whose existence I hadn't known about, so I presume he is not Elizabeth Tighe's son - unless it happens to be a middle name or some such thing?)

I suppose I'm looking for any further details linking her with the O'Brien family.  Elizabeth Tighe is buried with several O'Brien relatives, as well as the purchasers of the grave who have the name Willis (they seem to be related through their daughter who married an O'Brien).  I can't find any links with Mary at all, other than this mysterious Thomas Tighe.

Mary's husband Owen Duffy died in 1926, according to Glasnevin's records, and was buried in another plot, but no names show up that look familiar there either.

Any idea of where to begin the search? I've already looked up the FamilySearch website but the dates here seem just a little too late to be useful.  I thought that given the notoriety of her death, there might be a little more research out there to help me out.  The Irish Genealogy website might have something, but it seems a little hit and miss, and I've no idea how to verify any details found through it - O'Brien is a common name, after all. 

Thanks in advance for any details you might find out.