Reginald Dunne

[4] On 22 June 1922, Dunne and Joseph O'Sullivan killed Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson in London.

Dunne managed to escape, but O'Sullivan, who had lost a leg in the First World War was captured by an angry crowd.

On trial, Dunne addressed the jury about how in the recent Great War he had been "fighting for the principles for which this country [the UK] stood.

Those principles I found as an Irishman were not applied to my own country..."[5] Dunne wrote a speech which he was prevented from making from the dock (reprinted in the Irish Independent, 21 July 1922).

In it, he blamed Wilson for the "Orange Terror", as the Military Adviser to the Belfast Government who had established the Ulster Special Constabulary.