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Carlow County - Ireland Genealogical Projects (IGP TM)


Pat Purcell Papers
Raids by the British military
and
R.I.C. 1920.

By kind permission of Mr Michael Purcell


Raids by the British military and R.I.C. 1920.

Carlow Sentinel, October 1929.

Raids and Arrests in Carlow.

During the week British Military and members of the Royal Irish Constabulary carried out several raids in several houses in the town of Carlow and made one arrest.

The raiding took place between 3 and 4 o'clock in the morning on Monday last.

The premises of Mr James Farrell, Hardware shop, Tullow St. were entered by the military under the charge of an officer.

An exhaustive search lasting three hours was carried out and apparently nothing except a Sinn Fein flag was found on the premises.

The premises of Miss Brophy, in the same street, were also visited.

A young man named Ryan (a native of Kilkenny) was arrested and conveyed to the barracks.

A further search was carried out on the private dwelling house of Mr P. Conkling and Mr Maurice Walsh. The search lasted for about an hour, and some papers and correspondence was taken.

At about 10.30 Mr Ryan was conveyed by military motor lorry to the Curragh.

On Tuesday evening he was released and allowed back to Carlow.

(Note added by Michael Purcell 2011 - Miss Brophy was later interned in Kilmainham Jail for her involvement in Cumann na mBan and Ryan was also imprisoned for his activities with the Sinn Fein volunteers. Michael Ryan and Miss Brophy later married each other and continued to live on Tullow Street, (alongside the Coliseum Cinema) up to the 1970s.  Farrell's Hardware was situated where Dempsey's Hardware trades today.)

Note added by PP 2011 - Michael Ryan and Miss Brophy later married each other and continued to live on Tullow Street, Yes they did and were the social welfare officers (civil servants) for years,

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Transcribed by M. Purcell c2011.
Old newspapers in the PPP.

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