Hi, Just came across this site today while surfing. Sean Doyle was my Great Grandfather. I was interested to see if he was mentioned anywhere in the thread. I was very suprised to learn that the planning meeting to attack the CH was held in his house - never heard this before. His wife (my Great Grandmother) lived well into her eighties so I'm lucky enough to have known her. Sean was only 20 when he died - his older brother Patrick was one of the "forgotten ten" that was hanged six weeks later and buried in Mountjoy. When I was a kid, LaLa as we called her, would every so often take down her box of personal effects and let us kids see the medals & tricolour that were awarded to Sean posthumously. She also had letters written by Patrick while in prison awaiting execution. Subsequently, my uncle (her Grandson) passed all the material to the State. I was quite young when she used to tell us about Sean's death so it's difficult to remember everything or indeed she may have censored some of it, however one aspect of it has always stuck in my mind. Sean was shot in the back while trying to escape from the CH. He was not killed instantly but managed (or was helped) to a hospital (don't know which one). Apparently, the army/police went around the hospitals after the raid looking for wounded IRA men and while Sean was kept hidden wherever he was for maybe a day or so, he was eventually caught and taken away - whether he would have lived had he been treated or whether his death was hastened by those that arrested him, I don't know. Even after 60 years, relating the story always made Lala cry - she must have had a very difficult life bringing up her kids on her own at such a young age (of course it's only in later years that I could appreciate this). She also had the bullet that killed Sean, which had some of his bone embedded in it.
