Times, Co. Tipperary, Ireland - 1908
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The Times - 1908

Dublin May 26th. 1908

Ireland.
Disturbances in a Tipperary Town Strange Scenes are
reported to have taken place in Thurles, Co. Tipperary,
on Sunday evening in connection with an eviction which
was carried out on the previous Friday. Mr. RICHARD
BURKE, who kept a large licensed and bakery
establishment in New-Street, was some time ago
adjudicated a bankrupt. The place was advertised for
sale, but no offers of purchase were forth-coming.
Finally a private offer of £2000 from Mr. COADY, a
trader in the town was accepted. Meantime the bankrupt
who had refused to give up possession, was evicted by
the Sub-Sheriff. On Sunday evening a large crowd of men
and youths, headed by a band, marched to the evicted
tenant's former home, the windows of which they smashed
with sticks, stones, and bottles. Mr. COADYS bakery shop
was next attacked, and then the National Bank, which had
proceeded against BURKE during the bankruptcy
Proceedings. Afterwards the windows in the offices of
Mr. RYAN, a solicitor, and the dwellings of Mr. COADY
and his mother-in-law were smashed. The mob finally made
a second attack on the bank, and some constables were
injured with stones in trying to protect the building.
The crowd afterwards paraded the streets until 11
O'Clock.