Word: portadown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that has never accepted the Free State Government of bushy-haired President William Thomas Cosgrave, has gained hundreds of recruits. Little groups of solemn-eyed young men have been drilling seriously in clearings in the woods. First serious trouble came four months ago when Republicans and Orangemen rioted at Portadown, County Armagh (TIME, Aug. 24). That trouble spread. Just as in the bloody days of 1916, men were found dead in the ditches. On Armistice Day, Dublin was in a turmoil. Crowds surged up & down O'Connell Street, cheering, singing "Down King! Up Republican Army!" Free State officials were...
...Saturday the Ancient Order of Hibernians (Catholic) were to meet at Armagh. This time it was the Orangemen who felled trees, pulled up rails. Henry Bell, engineer of a freight train, was stopped by sullen gunmen, made to wreck his locomotive at an open gap in the rails. At Portadown, County Armagh, Orangemen and Republicans fought in the streets for two days with stones and bottles of Guinness's Stout. Orangemen rallied to the tune of "Dolly's Brae" and "Derry's Walls," and attempted to batter down the gates of a convent with an old pushcart...