Word: dubliner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three days later a modest obituary notice appeared in several papers. That same day Sir William Chevis, the lieutenant's father, received a mysterious telegram from Dublin. It was signed J. Hartigan, read: HOORAY HOORAY HOORAY...
...Dublin reported that the strange telegram had been put in by a person signing the name of J. Hartigan, giving the Hibernian Hotel as his address. At the hotel no J. Hartigan was known, but a Dublin chemist reported that he had sold some strychnine eight weeks earlier to a man whose description tallied with what the telegraph clerk could remember of J. Hartigan...
Things looked so serious to Dublin that a detachment of grey-green Free State troops was sent to Cootehill. Speaking nothing but Gaelic, they were considered safe from the propaganda of Orangemen and Republicans both. General Owen O'Duffy, head of the Irish Army and Chief Commissioner of the Civic Guard, rushed north to take charge at Cootehill in person...
Morning after the baton charge, the General telegraphed Dublin: EASIER ALTHOUGH A TENSE FEELING PREVAILS...
...Dublin did not feel easier; neither did the Royal Black Preceptories who were kept out of Cootehill. In the south Irish Minister of Justice Fitzgerald-Kenney spoke earnestly at Ballyhaunis. In his pocket were details of a number of terrorist crimes by Irish Republicans. Said...