- Flag over the Workhouse
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- The Carlow Sentinel,
- Saturday Morning, July 17th 1920
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- Flags Over Carlow.
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- During the past week the Sinn Fein flag which disappeared off
the top of the Courthouse, Carlow, on the morning of the Quarter
Sessions was re-hoisted. At a recent meeting of the Carlow Asylum
Board a resolution was passed to the effect that the Sinn Fein flag
be hoisted over the building on the days of meeting and whenever the
committee desired. On the occasion of the first meeting of the
Carlow Guardians a Sinn Fein flag was flying from the highest point
of the workhouse.
Carlow Urban
District Council.
Piggeries In Dwelling Houses.
Dr.
McDonald, Medical Officer of Health, reported that Margaret Hoare's
house in Chapel Street was in an unsanitary condition on account of a
pig being kept in the house.
Mr Molloy
asked: - Is this the same pig that was reported last July.
The Clerk
replied: - no that was removed.
The
Chairman, Mr. Michael Governey, stated -- it is to be hoped that
strong measures will be taken to put a stop to this practice of keeping
pigs in dwelling houses. Keeping a pig in a dwelling house is not alone
a danger to the house itself but to the whole neighbourhood.
Carlow
Nationalist, June 1920.
All night
drinking......
Looting
Countered.
The R.I.C.
Barracks at Wolfhill was evacuated on Thursday last, the men being
transferred to Ballylinan district.
A few hours
after they leaving the barrack building was in flames, having been set
on fire by a party of men who visited the place on bicycles.
On Saturday
night a Company of Irish Volunteers visited the ruins and caught a
number of people looting the few surviving articles that escaped the
flames, such as slates and gutters, fire-grates etc.
The looters
were at once placed on trial, and a court-martial was held in the yard.
A fine was imposed on each one, to be paid in a specified time.
A Republican
flag was flying from the remaining chimney of the barrack all day on
Sunday.
An Irish
Volunteer patrol visits the public houses in the colliery district
nightly and a decided improvement in the way of putting an end to Sunday
and all night drinking has been made.
Carlow
Sentinel, April 1920.
Raid in
Carlow. -
Sean Farrell.
On Sunday
morning last about 1.30am a large contingent of military and police
arrived at the house of Mr James Farrell, Hardware Merchant, Tullow
Street, Carlow.
The officer
in charge inquired for Sean Farrell, but he was not at home.
A thorough
search was made in all parts of the building. The raid lasted over an
hour and a half.
The officer
was very courteous and the party seemed to avoid everything of an
unpleasant nature.
Methodist church
The
Nationalist, August, 1920.
Notes by
Tatler.
On Saturday
night a miscreant or miscreants broke into the Methodist church in
Castledermot. The only word that can be applied to such an action is
blackguardism of the worst type, because it is sacrilegious.
The motive -
as in all such cases - is obscure. The members of the Methodist
community in the district are deservedly and justly popular.
- Transcribed by M. Purcell c2011.
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