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considered, had no place in a and she was gradually accepted.
a mainly supportive role for the Republican Movement boycotted the event but Markievicz and the crowds who thronged the streets political.than the purely physical force organisations of the men.
Irish Suffragettes held a mass 1912 when P.M. Asquith visited Hibernians, who were obviously anti-feminist, and several women, setting fire to the Theatre Royal, where Asquith was to speak.
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with the UDR” have been at it again. On December 3rd David Hugh Kincaid a UDR-man, of Osborne Street., Belfast, was jailed for 8 years for the armed meeting of the Fianna. Women, they physical force organisation. Constance however, was already well acquainted with the use of weapons and was a good sniper, as she was to prove later, Girls, however, continued to play Volunteers, with Markievicz continuing to believe that this would eventually give them equality. When King George visited Ireland in 1911, the men in the Inghinidhe, along with the Fianna, printed handbills to give out to the waving Union Jacks. In this event and many others they were obviously more meeting of Irishwomen in Dublin in there, demanding the vote vote for women. The women were attacked by a mob led by the Ancient Order of including Markievicz, were hurt. Two English suffragettes were given five years penal servitude in Mountjoy, for robbery of a Post Office. He shouted .
“Up the U.V.F.” as he left the dock.
The previous day Lieut. Oliver Gibson and Corporal John Weir Mosgrove of Omagh UDR Headquarters, were charged witn assaulting two Tyfone men and causing them bodily harm. (It must have been serious for UDR-men to be charged). Three bombs went off in Omagh, Beragh and Cookstown in the next few days. On December 6th the “Protestant Action Group” claimed responsibility and said they were in protest at the charging of the two men.
What is the connection between the UDR and UVF or the Protestant Action Group? What can we expect from this British armed and trained loyalist force when the British Army hand over to it -and the RUC?
Three P.D. members.(2 from Dublin) were held in Hasting St. Barracks for ‘screening’ after the Brits arrested them in Divis Flats. Having failed to find any conclusive : evidence on them the army released two of the members after 6 hours and detained the third over-night in Townhall St.
There were no charges made at any stage and the whole incident was just another case of harassment against the anti-Unionist population.
It was obvious from the remarks of the interrogater in the Barracks that they had communicated with the police in the 26 Cos. in regard to the 2 Dublin cdes. and had been briefed on their background. — all in the space of a few hours. It is obvious th-. collaboration has reached a high peak of efficiency.
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