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...Dimensions. Lynch's government arrested five top Official I.R.A. leaders in Dublin, including Chief of Staff Cathal Goulding. More were jailed following raids on the ramshackle offices of Sinn Fein (Ourselves Alone), the I.R.A.'s legal political front, and on homes in Dublin and Cork. Although Sinn Fein charged that Lynch was yielding to Westminster pressure in his tough anti-I.R.A. policy, his crackdown was intended to prevent a possible spread of violence to the Republic...
...Republic all week long. A bomb damaged Dublin's monument to the Duke of Wellington. Airport workers refused to service British airplanes, forcing flight cancellations. Toward the end of the week a mob of more than 1,000 badly damaged the British Rail ways office in Cork with fire bombs...
...Crimson steps looking like a suburban squire should, work-booted, wearing nondescript dungarees and a good sweater gone bad. With eyes looking out from a face somewhere between a hawk's and a gnome's, he glanced at the fading pictures of fading editors on our tack-marked cork bulletin board, and asked the photographer "How did you get those black borders on them?" Mechanical details and competence in mastering them impressed him--part of the reason he wrote Rabbit Redux was his vision of Rabbit as a linotyper...
...were the main targets. On Jan. 21, 1919, gunmen raiding a cart of explosives killed two Royal Irish Constabulary guards, thereby causing the first British deaths since the Easter Rising. Gunmen began ambushing the constables from behind walls and ditches. In November 1919, a daring raid by the I.R.A. Cork Brigade cleaned out the arms from a British sloop in Bantry Bay. The Irish public tacitly supported the cause with boycotts of British goods...
...army's Southern-based chief of staff. He was born near London, and until twelve years ago he answered to both his English name, John Stephenson, and his adopted Gaelic name. Caught up in the republican movement through his Irish heritage, he married an Irish girl from Cork after having served three years in the R.A.F. and joined the I.R.A. He also worked for British Railways as a trainee inspector, a job that gave him free tickets to Ireland for himself and his family. Imprisoned at Wormwood Scrubbs in 1953 for his part in an I.R.A. raid for arms...