Stephen Fuller

Stephen Fuller (died 1984) was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who served as Teachta Dála (TD) for the Kerry North constituency.

Fuller served in the Irish Republican Army (IRA) during the Irish War of Independence (1919–1921). He opposed the Anglo-Irish Treaty in 1922 and fought in the Anti-Treaty IRA during the Irish Civil War (1922–23). During the civil war, he was captured by the forces of the Irish Free State and detained in Ballymullen Barracks in Tralee. On 7 March 1923, he was one of the victims of a reprisal execution by National Army troops. In reprisal for the deaths of five of their comrades at the hands of an IRA landmine at Knocknagoshel, the Free State soldiers took Fuller and eight other republican prisoners from Tralee to Ballyseedy crossroads, tied them to a mine and detonated it. Fuller survived the explosion but his eight comrades were killed. He was badly wounded but escaped to tell others of the event, challenging the National Army version that the prisoners had died while clearing a road booby-trapped by the Anti-Treaty IRA.

Stephen Fuller (disambiguation)

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