1918-02-07
RIC Constable attacked in Cummer
Shots were fired at Constable Kerriak¹ as he entered Cummer RIC barracks this evening. He was uninjured.Read More →
1918-02-07
Prisoner released from Limerick Jail
Patrick Green, one of the four men arrested after an arms raid in Kilrush, has been released from custody. He had been on hunger strike¹.Read More →
1918-02-07
Escape of Cattle Drive prisoners
The twenty men detained while participating in a cattle drive yesterday all escaped when brought to court in Ennis today¹. A melee ensued between the prisoners, supporters and the police, and in the commotion, the prisoners escaped. A subsequent round-up operation by the police and army yielded no results.Read More →
1918-02-06
Shots fired at farmer in Cummer
Shots were fired through the window of the home of Michael Nolan this evening – there were no injuries. Nolan, from Cummer in Galway, is one of 16 tenants on the Lord Knox estate and there is reportedly a dispute of the leases amongst the tenants¹.Read More →
1918-02-06
Clare cattle drivers jailed
Twenty one men accused of participating in a cattle drive in Co. Clare were arrested and sent to the County Jail in Limerick¹.Read More →
1918-02-03
Sinn Fein rally in Elphin, Roscommon
Eamonn De Valera and Count George Plunkett (the local MP, and father of the late Joseph Mary Plunkett) speak at a Sinn Fein rally in Elphin in co. Roscommon. The Leitrim Observer report¹ that between three and four thousand supporters attended the rally.Read More →
1918-02-02
South Armagh By-Election Result:Victory for Irish Parliamentary Party
The South Armagh by-election is won by Patrick Donnelly of the Irish Parliamentary Party. He got 2,324 votes, beating the Sinn Fein candidate (Patrick McCartan) who received 1305 votes.Read More →
1918-01-29
Galway landlord complains of boycott
J G Alcorn, who survived a shooting attack last month, writes to the Tuam Herald¹ to complain that he had not tried to evict a tenant, as was previously reported. He tells of notices posted in his locality, attributed to Sinn Fein, threatening anyone who works with him. In the letter, he asks : Are we living,I ask, in Russia under the Bolshevists, or is this to be our life under Sinn Fein ?Read More →
1918-01-25
Arms Raid in Kilrush
Four men carried out a raid for arms at the home of John Murphy. The four – Moody, Green, McNamara and Connell – were later arrested.Read More →
1918-01-25
Gun raid backfires in Kilrush
Five masked men raided several houses near Kilrush, Co. Clare tonight¹. At one house, they forced a young man, called Murphy, at gunpoint to fetch the family’s guns. However, Murphy threatened to use the gun on the raiders, who promptly fled. Murphy chased after the raiders, shot one of them and then dragged the wounded man, named Mulqueen, back to his house, where he extracted the details of the raiding party. The RIC later arrested Messrs Corry, Connell, Moody and Green.Read More →