OUTBREAK IN DUBLIN

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 26, 31 January 1923, Page 5

OUTBREAK IN DUBLIN

REBELS BLOW UP HOUSES.

(Received 31st January, 9 a.m.)

LONDON, 30th January. A grave outbreak by Irregulars occurred on Moqluay night, when the houses of State officials and the relatives of Ministers and members of the Dublin Press were attacked. The residence of Mr. Corrigan, Chief State Solicitor, was blown to atoms. Mrs. Corrigan and the children and the maid were evicted. The explosion shook the neighbourhood and furniture was littered over a hundred yards. A house adjoining the home of Mr. Robert Donovan, leader writer for "Freeman's Journal," for which it is presumed the attack was intended, was entered by Irregulars, who evicted the occupants and destroyed the building by a mine. Armed men visited the residence of Mr. Brewster, manager of the "Independent" newspaper. . wrecked the furniture and ignited the premises. The fire-brigade'extinguished the flames after three rooms had been seriously damaged. Armed men destroyed 500 tons of hay at the home of Mr. ■ Joseph Mooney, director of the "Independent" newspaper. The approach of a detective patrol alarmed men, who dropped a parcel outside the home of Sir John Arnott, chairman of directors of "The Irish Times." The parcel contained a land mine. The home of Mi. Lawrence Flanagan, President Coserove's brother-in ; law, was ignited, but the flames were extinguished before the building was gntted.

Bomb attacks were made od. patrols and military posts as a feint,! and a passenger train was held up at Killiney, ignited, and destroyed.