A DEFIANT PRISONER
Laughing in the face of his escort and.resisting until compelled by military policemen to remove his hands from his pocket, Jeremiah McCarthy, a youth, of Skibbereen, County Cork, held up the proceedings of the Free ..State Military Tribunal in Dublin recently. McCarthy was one of a number of prisoners charged with membership of an unlawful 'association and failing to give account of their movements to the police. The charges followed the recent round-up, in Cork and Waterford consequent upon the murders of Vice-Admiral Somerville and John Egan. : When McCarthy was ordered to address the Court he struggled in , the small dock for several minutes. The Tribunal President immediately sentenced McCarthy to ■'six-.'.months' imprisonment for contempt of court, and left unheard , the charges against him. Among the other sentences was one of twelve months on Thomas McCurtain, son of.a former Lord Mayor of Cork. McCurtain said he was proud to belong to, the Irish Republican Army. The wholesale arrests, he said, had been made by the Government to terrify Republicans, and thus pave the way to a new Dominion deal .■which would be a betrayal of the men vho died for Ireland.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 32, 6 August 1936, Page 22
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A DEFIANT PRISONER
Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 32, 6 August 1936, Page 22
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