Newspaper articles
The Times
Contributed by Mary Heaphy
1908
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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. |
