Word: leitrim
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most unlucky prisoners were Daniel McKiernan and Peter Mitchell, farm boys from Drumdiffer. County Leitrim. Daniel McKiernan had been a member of the Republican Army. Brooding on the risks he was running undermined his courage. He asked his friend Peter Mitchell to help him dispose of the rifles he had been ordered to hide. Just as the two boys were dumping their contraband in a bog the Drumdiffer constabulary closed in on them. The Military Tribunal again was not unduly severe. The boys were released in $250 personal bail on a pledge never to have anything more to do with...
...Republicans got there first. Some 800 of them, scowling young men from the hills of Leitrim and neighboring counties, came into town with slouch hats pinned up on one side and formidable tape-wound hurleys in their hands. They went systematically about the business of keeping the Orangemen out of Cootehill. One squad wrecked the meeting hall. Others tore up the railway lines between Coote hill and Ballybay, and near Clones. Tele phone and telegraph wires were cut, barricades of felled trees laid, trenches dug across the roads. When General O'Duffy and his faithful troops arrived (hopping...