Floodlights No. 2 the oracle hath spoken!!! ;
"Free" state ministers who climbed into power on the backs of hunger-strikers have announced to the "democratic" assembly in Merrion Street, that "as the only means available for the maintenance of public order and security" republican soldiers now in Mountjoy and Arbour Hill prisons must be allowed to starve to death for the "crime" of fealty to the Reoublic... /
Sinn Féin.
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| Summary: | Republican handbill issued to seek support for those then on hunger strike in Mountjoy and Arbour Hill prison, imprisoned under the Emergency Powers Act 1939 which is referenced throughout the handbill (this was enacted on 3 September 1939, after an official state of emergency was declared in Ireland on 2 September 1939 which gave the government powers concering censorship, internment etc.). With reference on sheet to Terence McSwiney and armed "civilian Republicans" was were arrested such as Mary McSwiney, Alec Lynn and Cluad de Ceabhasa [Claude Chavasse] in Galway and Joseph M. Fowler in London. |
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| Language: | English |
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Dublin :
Sinn Féin,
November 1939.
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| Notes: | This item is held in the Department of Ephemera. Physical description: 1 sheet ; 20.5 x 13.7 cm. more |
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EPH B900 |
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Ephemera |
Reproduction rights owned by the National Library of Ireland.
