Joe Poole : The Sixth Invincible

At 8 o'clock on the morning of the 18th December 1883, Joseph Poole, a Dublin tailor, was executed in a yard in Richmond Bridewell on the South Circular Road. The son of Fred and Sophia Poole, Joe was was born in the summer of 1855. In 1873 at the age of eighteen he was sworn into the Irish Republican Brotherhood and before the end of the decade the police had become aware of his Fenian activities. By July 1882 he had become an officer in the IRB and was Centre of a Circle that met on the North Lotts, east of the Customs House.
On the night of the 3rd July he attended a Fenian raffle in the Widow Moran's public house on Cork Hill. At the end of the night he accompanied John Kenny, another Fenian, to Kenny's home near Seville Place. Poole produced a bottle of whiskey and shared it with Kenny, his wife and his neighbours in the small tenement. Around 11.30pm Joe rose to leave. Kenny offered to see him to the end of the lane and out of the maze of small side streets in that area. Shortly after mid-night Kenny was shot and stabbed under the railway arch on Seville Place. A number of men were seen running away.
Joe Poole was a member of The Invincibles. The Irish National Invincibles, usually known as the Invincibles, were a splinter group of the Irish Republican Brotherhood. This group of assassins were active in Dublin between late 1881 and 1883, with an intent to kill the authorities in Dublin Castle.
This lecture, delivered by Micheal O'Duibhlinn, describes the history of this important Irish historical figure. This is a recording of a talk held in County Library, Tallaght in March 2018