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Vol. Il, No 11
D ORE SOOR SUS
NOVEMBER,
20th ANNIVERSARY TERENCE MAC SWINEY'S DEATH
See Article on Page 3
1940
$1.00 per year
lrish Prisoners Are Suffering IIl- Treatment
Curragh Prisoners
Held Incommunicado
DUBLIN:—Shocking details of the barbarous attitude of
the Free State Government toward the thousands of Repub-
lican prisoners have just come to public attention through
the hospitalization of two men who were suffering from
malnutrition and exposure.
The public is aware of the unsani-
tary condition of Mountjoy Prison here
but few people have heretofore known
of the state of a
concentration camps in
erowded Mountjoy, 16
been herded (as previously reported in
the IRISH REPUBLIC). Up to this
time they have been held on no charge,
a procedure which is possible under
the new coercion laws. Some of these
women are familiar
American friends: Ethel Taft, Maura
Laverty, Shelia Mae Inerney, and An-
nie O’Farrelly. Last week they were
rs in other English
Into
have
Ireland.
women
names to our
informed that their imprisonment is for
the ‘‘duration’’. No formal charge has
yet been brought against them but the
Act éndorses such
Defense the
thought to be in jeopardy.
Hundreds
jeet to government censorships — of
Coercion
the
measures
when of Realm is
the exact number is sub-
vol in
men have been thrown into the
Cork City.
have been redistributed to other parts
the Special Internment
camps are to be erected in Cork in the
the in-
Pit-
soners. But it is in the Curragh of Kil-
Ordinary civil prisoners
of country.
near future to accommodate
ereasing numbers of Republican
dare that conditions ave worst. The pri-
number thousands, (It is
always difficult to the exact
total of the prisoners because of the
Free State censorship).
Due to the great number interned
here, and the consequent difficulty of
soners here
obtain
the cruelest measures
against them. Some of
these men have been charged with sup-
porting the campaign of the I. R. A.
Others have been imprisoned on counts
policing them,
are enforced
ranging from soliciting monies for the
Prisoners’ Dependents’ Fund to mem-
bership in the National Army.
Prisoners of the Curragh are depriv-
ed of all communication with the out-
side. They are not allowed to receive
packages or mail ¢
in Dublin and Cork ¢
permitted to have vis They are
packed into crowded quarters with the
are the prisoners
ols. They are not
tors.
poorest sanitary conveniences, They are
badly and inadequately fed. Their fare
is poorer than what is served in Dub-
is not sufficient
lin and Cork. There
around and aside from
recently hospitalized, others:
are suffering from the
nights. Matters are further
by the refusal of the Free State to al-
clothing to ¢
two men
eold damp
complicated
low the men in the Curragh to receive
packages. Restrictions of this sort pre-
vent outside help by friends and re-
latives.
Because of the great expense involy-
ed the Free State has no intention, at
present, following the example of
the Northern Government
prison ship, but no seeret is made of
of
in using a
the fact here in Dublin that something
must be done soon to find new quar-
ters for the growing numbers of Re-
publican prisoners,
GREAT MILITARY LOSS IN
ENGLAND
BRISTOL—An important airport in
this seetion has suffered destruction to
the amount of $140,000 it was recently
Scotland Yard’s
Braneh which had been set up
ago in attempt to with
bloodless campaign of the LR.A.
diselosed. Special
a year
the
has
an cope
‘
re
| 28rd RMionth of the War for IRISH Freedom..!
a
admitted defeat before the systematic
Dusnings and ‘‘inside damage’’ that go
on like clockwork in England's vital
industries.
Kurther
the moment and it is not yet known
whether Ernest Coles who has heen ar-
details are not available at
rested in connection with the feat is a
member of the Irish Republican Ex-
peditionary Force.
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Recessional, No. 2 John in the Subway
Dedicated to our old friend, J. B., who delighted to light fires in Irish towns,
but who doesn’t fancy them in London: Trish” to
mountain fastnesses and caves, but who can’t seem to work up any enthusiasm
who drove the “mere
for sleeping in his subways.
(With Apologies to Kipling)
Lord of our fathers, known of old,
Lord of our far flung battle line,
Gomorrah’s fate! -
Look down this awful night and hold 1, .
ve : The Irish have not acted well,
Dominion over me and mine
Lord God of Hosts, they’re coming yet,
T can’t forget! — I can’t forg
- a summer shower,
Look down O Lord at London Tower!
And tried their best to duty shirk;
They talked of blazes in Clonmel
While I was blazing from Dunkirk !
I haven’t seen the sun for days,
On doeks and palace sinks the fire; I won’t forget!
Your Garden Land is all ablaz
Look down O Lord on Devonshire!
Lord God of Ilosts, stay with me yet,
IH pay the Debt!—Ull the Debt!
The Queens are staying with
Princess Sis;
vay . : :
pay I’m going down tied to the Mast,
The frightful tumult never dies,
I hear the leaves are falling fast,
Lord God of Hosts, Vl get them yet,
I won’t forget!
No night was ever as long as this!
Some people think the end has come;
Swooping down like dragon flies
Ilell’s angels drop a whistle bomb.
aa
Dear Lord send over Uncle Sam
The smoke will show him where I am!
PADRAIC LAGAN.
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