First Sinn Fein General Election meeting in the Round Room of Mansion House Dublin took place this evening. A letter from Eamon De Valera was read out. Sean T O’Kelly and Harry Boland also spoke.Read More →
A recruitment meeting in Roscommon was disrupted by Sinn Fein activists until they were dispersed by a baton charge by the 6 policemen in attendance. One Sinn Fein protestor shouted,”We do not want German rule or English rule; we want rule by Irishmen”, to which Major Davey, the recruiter, retorted,”…do not submit to a policy founded by a Welshman and led by a Spaniard”¹.Read More →
A local man, whose father is an RIC constable, was sentenced to two months jail in Carrick-on-Shannon courthouse today, for unlawful assembly on October 3rd last. He was accused of shouting “Up the Rebels” and “Watch Thornton and Keady”, who were the two RIC policemen who were on duty on the day. James O’Brien was offered to be bound over to keep the peace, but refused to pay the bond of £20, hence the jail term.Read More →
The South Galway constituency of the United Irish League (Irish Parliamentary Party) select William J Duffy as their candidate for the forthcoming general election¹. He is the sitting MP. Mr Duffy was unanimously selected at a convention in Loughrea this evening.Read More →
Eamon De Valera has been nominated by Sinn Fein to stand as a candidate in the 1918 general election in the constituencies of East Clare, Belfast and South Down.Read More →
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 →
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