Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Despard, sister of Field Marshal Earl French, had her bed carried outside the Kilmainham Prison, stating that she would remain in it on hunger strike until three women prisoners, also on hunger strike, are liberated...
...American Jurist" in 1841 said that though the departments of English and American law were nearly complete, "there is a great deal to be desired in some departments of general jurisprudence". There were almost no books on Roman law, suited for the modern student; on criminal law and prison discipline; on public law and the philosophy of law; or on German law, which were being produced in great numbers at that time...
Rene La Montagne: "My three brothers and I are model prisoners in the Essex (N. J.) jail where we are serving sentences for being bootleggers de luxe. We have asked only one favor-that we be allowed to join the other prisoners in shoveling snow and dirt out of the prison yard...
...These men are in prison not because of acts of violence, not because of the destruction of property, but solely because of an expression of their views. They are in the strictest sense political prisoners for their opinions spoken or written...
...Miss Annie MacSwiney, sister of the late Terence MacSwiney, was released from Kilmainham Prison by the Free State authorities on the fifteenth day of her hunger strike. ¶ P. J. Rutledge, " Minister for Home Affairs " for De Valera, was captured by Free State troops, together with fifty of his followers. ¶ A mine was exploded outside Dublin Cathedral during a service. No damage was done either to property or to life...