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Liam Mellows, who led the rebels in Galway during Easter Week 1916, and George Nicholls, have been nominated as the Sinn Fein parliamentary candidates for the forthcoming general election. Liam Mellows is currently ‘on the run’ in the United States, and George Nicholls is currently interned.Read More →
Arthur O’Connor, arrested last week in Spiddal, has been deported to England.Read More →
Two Caltra men have been arrested at their homes. Michael Kelly and Thomas Divine are charged with unlawful assembly and will be tried at the next Petty Sessions Court in Mountbellew in Co. Galway. They had been “on the run” for some time. Read More →
Three men were charged today with playing hurling in Loughrea on July 21st last¹. The prosecutors claimed that the arrests were valid (under Lord French’s proclamation) and that the defendants had been shouting “Up De Valera”. Verdicts for the three accused – Joseph Connor, Joseph Ford and Tadhg Scorry – was adjourned to the next itting of the Loughrea Petty Sessions.Read More →
A former internee of Frongoch, J J Layng, was arrested and searched at Portumna Barracks today¹. It is his second arrest since his release from Belfast Jail, where he served a sentence for drilling.Read More →
The Western People reports¹ that policemen from the districts of Westport, Castlebar, Balla, Claremorris, Kiltimagh, Swinford, Ballindine, Castlerea and Ballinlough were sent to Ballyhaunis today (Lady’s Day) to prevent an announced Sinn Fein meeting in the Market Square . It was reported that the nationalists held their meeting in Cloonfarna ( 2 miles away) instead.Read More →
A member of the Clonfert Sinn Fein Club, Timothy P Kileen, was arrested by police¹ in Eyrecourt for seditious language after a camogie match. He was arrested by Constable French and delivered to the military authorities in Galway.Read More →
Arthur O’Connor, from Celbridge in Kildare, who was ‘on the run’ and attending Irish college, was arrested in Spiddal.Read More →
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