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Cathal Brugha (born Charles William St. John Burgess) (18 July 1874 – 7 July 1922) was an Irish revolutionary and politician, active in the Easter Rising, Irish War of Independence, and the Irish Civil War and was the first Ceann Comhairle (chairman) of Dáil Éireann.

Early life[]

Brugha was born in Dublin.

Death[]

Brugha died on 7 July 1922, 11 days before his 48th birthday. He had been re-elected as an anti-Treaty TD at the 1922 general election but died before the Dáil assembled. He is buried in Glasnevin Cemetery.

A century after he died in the Mater Hospital from a single bullet wound, Cathal Brugha was remembered in Glasnevin Cemetery.

Brugha became the first high-profile fatality of the Civil War during the Battle of Dublin which followed the siege of the Four Courts.

On July 7th 1922 he met his end at the back of the Hammam Hotel which had been shelled by the National Army. He emerged down a laneway off O’Connell Street firing his pistol, dusty and shell-shocked, into the path of a National Army sniper and was felled with a single gunshot to the leg.

Brugha, who later died in hospital from chock and blood loss from his wound, had shown a reckless disregard for his own safety – or preternatural courage, depending on your point of view. He left behind a widow and six young children.

There was no state ceremony to remember the first Ceann Comhairle and Minister for Defence in the first Dáil who bec

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