Word: mckiernan
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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...