FEBRUARY 5 1920
Armed RIC raided upwards of eighty private houses in the County Galway.
At Youghal, Co,Cork RIC and British military raided six private houses.
At Dundalk,County Louth, ten private houses were raided by RIC and British
Military
Armed RIC raided a house at Blarney, Co.Cork.
A Waterford city house was similarly raided.
Arrests of recently elected public representatives –
Mr,M.Carolan of Belfast Corporation was arrested on a charge of unlawfull
assembly The unlawful assembly consisted of a meeting of his constituents
after the declaration of the Poll.
Mr M.Quinn, Chairman f Ennis Rural District Council,, Co. Clare. was
arrested.
At Youghal,Co Cork, Mr P Magner, Urban Councillor was arrested.
Lord Monteagle was never a Republican, A Socialist, nor a Nationalist and
wrote to the papers, referring to “the recent municipal elections as an
opportunity given to the Irish people to select exactly he kind of
representative they needed most, and stated that the elections promised to be
fruitful of much good”.
“But” he continued “my hopes are sadly dashed by the fresh
outbursts of wholesale arrests last Friday and Saturday so soon after these
elections, and including so many of those recently elected.
Why these individual men? And why at this particular time? The conjunction is ominous. What did his attempt to arrest five members (of Parliament) profit Charles I? The immediate effect of Charles’ action was to precipitate civil war. I refuse to believe that the (British) Government contemplate such a possibility.”
FEBRUARY 6 1920
Many more actions such as those earlier described were recorded that day.
At a trial conducted by the repudiated British “Authorities” in Youghal, Co. Cork, three men were sentenced to seven days imprisonment on a charge of “Unlawful Assembly e being found in the Sinn Fein Rooms on December 11th 1919, when they were engaged in work in support of candidates at the Municipal Elections.
On the removal of (British) military prohibitions from Tipperary Town the members of a local Social Club re-occupied their rooms. The Royal Irish Constabulary immediately notified the Club members that the Club could not reopened, and that if members gathered there they would be ejected,
This all happened before the Black and Tans & Auxiliary “Police Cadets” were deployed in Ireland.
I do hope that voters going to the polls this Saturday 8th FEBRUARY 2020 will reject any candidate or party which intends to commemorate the Royal Irish Constabulary or any other Crown Forces, the enemies of freedom in Ireland and of freedom seeking nations across the globe.
Support for the proposed commemoration is a repudiation of all freedom-seeking peoples
Kissing John Bull’s backside, or that of other predatory powers, IS NOT INTERNATIONALISM, but craven sycophancy.
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