27 MARCH 1920, Page 1
Eight thousand volunteers of the Army of the Irish Republic
paraded in uniform to do honour to the memory of Mr. MacCur- tain, and a large part of Dublin went into mourning. An resh correspondent tells us that the Municipal buildings in Cork, after the murder of Mr. MacCurtain, bore the following notice : "Closed in consequence of the murder of Thomas MacCurtain, first Republican Mayor of Cork, by the paid assassins of the British Usurper. R.I.P." Our correspondent also tells us that he saw the following notices posted on walls in Blackpool, the suburb of Cork where Mr. MacCurtain lived: "Buy a Bond. Lord French suppressed Dail Eireann. Will you suppress French ? " "Fire a shot for freedom. Buy a Bond." There were also allusions to Easter week and the death of Connolly and Pearse.
