On March 31st, According To Mr. Henry, Notice Was Given
by some of the untried prisoners that they would resort to the hunger-strike on April 5th, their object being to get what is called " ameliorative treatment " for the convicted......
No Sooner Had Mr. Henry's Statement Been Made Than Doubt
was freely thrown upon it. Mr. Macireagh declared that the Irish Executive had reversed the rules introduced by Mr. Shortt, and that those who were eligible for ameliorative......
Sir Nevil Macready Had Reached Ireland In A Ship Of
war in the early hours of Wednesday morning, and we can hardly doubt that the change of policy was largely due to him. What we complain of is not by any means that the......
The Complete Change Of Front By The Executive Was Recorded
in the papers of Thursday. By midnight on Wednesday sixty-six prisoners had been released. The soldiers and the tanks had been withdrawn from the prison gates, and the relations......
On Wednesday Evening It Was Known That The Whole Policy
as regards the untried prisoners in Ireland had been reversed, and that a large number of the hunger-strikers had been released and sent into various hospitals. Nor is this the......
News Of The Week.
A S though the blight on Ireland of murder and terrorism were not bad enough, the Government have made the situation worse by a particular blight of their own composed of......
Meanwhile The Irish Trade Union Congress Had Called A...
strike to protest against the treatment of " political prisoners " in Mountjoy. All the shops in Dublin were shut, business ceased, and the trains and trams stopped running. The......
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