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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