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Kevin Christopher O'Higgins (Irish: Caoimhghín Críostóir Ó hUigín; 7 June 1892 – 10 July 1927) was an Irish politician who served as Vice-President of the Executive Council and Minister for Justice from 1922 to 1927, Minister for External Affairs from June 1927 to July 1927 and Minister for Economic Affairs from January 1922 to September ...
Kevin O’Higgins was one of the most divisive figures in the early years of the Irish State. Reviled by anti-Treaty republicans, he was an advocate of the Free State government’s execution ...
Kevin Christopher O’Higgins was an Irish statesman who attempted severe repression of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) in the aftermath of the Irish civil war (1922–23). A man of intellectual power, he was described (by William Butler Yeats) as “a great man in his pride confronting murderous men.”
Kevin O’Higgins: builder of the Irish state. It is a sad fact that the spot where Ireland’s first minister for justice lay after he was fatally wounded by three IRA men in 1927 is marked by a ridiculously small cross made by a spade in setting concrete.
May 10, 2022 · Kevin O’Higgins in February 1922: came to be centrally identified with the controversial executions policy and remains the only Irish minister ever assassinated in the history of the State.
Nov 26, 2022 · Just over a year later, in December 1922, Kevin O'Higgins signed the execution order that condemned his best man to death. Rory O'Connor was executed by firing squad. The execution of...
O'Higgins, Kevin Christopher (1892–1927), politician, was born 7 June 1892 in Stradbally, Queen's Co. (Laois), fourth son among fifteen children (three of whom died in infancy) of Thomas Higgins, doctor and elected county coroner, who was the son of farmer John Higgins and Anne Waters of Clonmellon, Co. Meath, and grandson of Michael Higgins ...
