Life
1849-1888; b. Mitchelstown, Co. Cork; imprisoned in Tullamore Jail with
O’Brien in connection with the Plan of Campaign and the tenants’
struggle on the Mitchelstown estate, 9 Sept. 1887, when the constabulary
fired on the crowd involved in shielding those two from arrest, killing
three men; action defended by Marquess of Londonderry, then Lord Lieutenant,
though subsequently the officers held responsible were discharged; held
naked in jail as not being allowed to wear his own clothing under direct
orders of Chief Secretary Arthur Balfour; d. July 1888. DIH
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