Kevin O'Higgins, the Vice-President of the Executive Council and Minister for Justice of the Irish Free State, was assassinated on July 10, 1927. He was shot by members of the IRA while walking to Sunday Mass in Booterstown, Dublin. O'Higgins was a prominent figure in the Cumann na nGaedheal government and a key architect of the new state's legal and policing structures. His assassination sent shockwaves through the young Irish Free State, highlighting the deep divisions and political instability that persisted in the aftermath of the Irish Civil War.
