Word: mountjoy
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Raiding the home of Mrs. Kathleen Brugha, detectives found Parachutist Marschner. He had been hiding there since March, when the I.R.A. helped him to escape from Mountjoy Prison. They did not arrest Mrs. Brugha, widow of General Cathal Brugha, onetime De Valera defense minister who died a hero's death in 1922. But they did arrest Mrs. Brugha's pretty daughter, Noinin. And they picked up enough evidence on McGuinness to put him away for seven years...
South of the border the world's most belligerently neutral censorship produced an atmosphere "like an aquarium in which the water is never changed." When German Parachutist Hans Marchner skipped Mountjoy jail, although rewards for capture were posted, newspapers were not allowed to publish picture or description...
...thousand angry demonstrators carried black flags with skull and cross bones through Dublin's streets. They tried to storm the British Representative's office. At the Post Office, bloody scene of the 1916 Easter Rebellion, they stood silent for two minutes. Sports were canceled, cinemas closed. At Mountjoy Prison, where once Mr. de Valera himself was jailed and where in 1922 the British shot Rory O'Connor, railroad engineer and onetime I. R. A. staff member, a crowd burned the Union Jack...