03 February
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Image courtesy of Public Record Office of Northern Ireland Flickr photostream. Eamon De Valera has escaped from Lincoln Prison, along with two companions (Sean Milroy and Sean McGarry).  De Valera had assisted the prison chaplain at the weekly mass, and was able to take advantage of this role to make a replica key in secret. De Valera and his companions were helped to escape by Reublican activists outside the prison, including Michael Collins and Harry Boland. Police in Westminister are on alert, in case De Valera attempts to enter the Houses of Parliament as an MP, asserting parliamentary immunity.Read More →

09 November
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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 →

08 July
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The court-martial of a member of the Connaught Rangers began in London today¹. Lance-Corporal J Dowling was arrested after landing near Doolin in a collapsible boat on April 12th , and is now kept in the Tower of London. The prosecution alleges that he was part of an Irish Brigade intended to foment revolution, and that he had been dropped off the the Clare coast by submarine. Dowling had been reported missing and captured in France in August 1914.Read More →

19 June
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Michael Vincent Hardy, of Foxford was convicted in Castlebar Court today for giving  pro-Sinn Féin  (and anti-British) speeches in Kilmovee and Kilkelly in Co. Mayo during March and April this year. He was jailed for three months and fined £50. The judges were J Kilbride and J C Milling (Royal Magistrates). The constable giving evidence was Constable McLoughlin of Kilmovee.Read More →

02 April
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A champion cyclist, Martin Hegarty, was jailed for 2 months in Ballina Court for illegal drilling¹ during St. Patrick’s Day in Crossmolina. He was escorted to the courtroom from Castlebar Jail by sixteen armed police, who restricted the number of the members of the public allowed into the courtroom. A group of Irish Volunteers turned up at the courthouse and sang The Soldiers Song in support. The defendant did not recognise the authority of the court.Read More →