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Carlow County - Ireland Genealogical Projects (IGP TM)


Pat Purcell Papers
Carlow Events February 1921

By kind permission of Mr Michael Purcell


Lecture on India...!

Nationalist, Feb. 1921.

Right Rev. T.G.F. Day, the new Protestant Bishop of Ossory, Ferns and Leighlin, recently visited Maryborough and preached at Sunday morning and evening Services.

At the Parochial Hall he delivered an interesting and instructive lecture on India.

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The Great Escape with knobs on....

Nationalist, Feb. 1921.

Probably the greatest sensation of the present crisis in Ireland was the escape of Frank Teeling and two others from Kilmainham Prison on Monday night last. According to Dublin Press reports a lorry-load of men uniformed in khaki, wearing steel helmets and carrying the usual arms drove up to the prison gate, and the officer in charge presented a warrant purporting to come from Dublin Castle ordering the prison authorities to hand over Teeling and two others, Donnelly and Stewart, for removal "to another place".

Teeling was under sentence of death for his alleged complicity in the Mount Street shootings.

The three men were removed and have not since been heard of.

Military headquarters on Wednesday night, however, while admitting the escape , emphatically deny that any hoax was perpetrated. Thereafter the sensational incident is a mystery.

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  • The above is a true and accurate transcript of the original document.

    Transcribed by Jean Casey, 2010


    From Old newspapers in the PPP.
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