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Suffragettes and Mr. Pethick Lawrence

  • 11 older comments, and then…
  • John Spooner said:
    On page 15 of Votes for Women - Friday 15 March 1912
    is this
    Votes for Women - Friday 15 March 1912
  • John Spooner said:
    On page 6 is a report which begins
    The atmosphere on Thursday evening at the London Opera House (two days after the arrest of Mr. and Mrs. Pethick Lawrence) was electric with that undaunted spirit which in this Union never dissipates in emotion, but is translated into action. The blow that had fallen on the Union through the arrest of its leaders had made its friends rally in full force, and the huge house was packed from floor to ceiling with an audience of men and women entirely sympathetic and absolutely unwavering in confidence and loyalty, who stood up in a body to applaud and cheer the speakers. Outside, the seething of the crowd and the trampling of the mounted police ; inside, perfect quiet, except for the cheering and applause.
  • John Spooner said:
    From the front page we learn that Votes for Women was edited by Frederick and Emmeline Pethick Lawrence, appeared weekly and cost 1d (or 1½d by post).
  • beachcomber australia said:
    A fine 1909 poster in suffragette colours -

    Via - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Votes_for_Women_(newspaper)
  • John Spooner said:
    It was an exciting time for the paper. On page 1:
    Meantime, the other leader roams the earth, the ocean, or the air. Without being in the least like a Boojum, Miss Christabel Pankhurst has silently vanished away, and none knows whither, least of all the eminent detectives of Scotland Yard. Fond of hunting as the British people are, it is a peculiar thing that their sympathy is almost always with the fugitive, and we doubt if Sherlock Holmes himself would have a chance for their favour against a successful Vanishing Lady. So day by day, as the police went searching the British Isles, enquiring with simple guile at the residence of every noted Suffragist in the kingdom, the interest grew with laughter.


    Wikipedia:
    Boojum - A fictional animal species in Lewis Carroll's nonsense poem The Hunting of the Snark; a particularly dangerous kind of snark
    The narrative follows a crew of ten trying to hunt the Snark, a creature which may turn out to be a highly dangerous Boojum. The only crew member to find the Snark quietly vanishes, leading the narrator to explain that the Snark was a Boojum after all.

    (OR a phenomenon in physics associated with superfluid helium-3 OR a chain of Mexican restaurants in Ireland)

ITGWU

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  • Suck Diesel said:
    Peter Ennis, top row, stands head and shoulders above this gathering of returned prisoners outside Liberty Hall in 1917.
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    Suck Diesel I am impressed! Please tell more.
  • John Spooner said:
    A couple of date clues. Restoration was well underway by May 1917.
    Evening Herald (Dublin) - Thursday 21 June 1917
    The building has been recently undergoing structural alterations, owing to the damage done during the Rebellion, and is now practically restored to its original condition.

    Freeman's Journal - Friday 11 May 1917
    Republican flags were flown from the scaffolding around Liberty Hall.
    and
    Labour Leader - Thursday 25 January 1917
    We gathered in a bullet scarred and windowless wing of Liberty Hall, and discussed the prospects of a branch.
  • Suck Diesel said:
    “Liberty Hall’s courageous caretaker”

    “YOU are quite at liberty…” With these words, caretaker Peter Ennis greeted the early morning raiding party at Liberty Hall on Friday 22nd August 1919.

    On the Wednesday prior to the raid, Christopher Quigley, a news vendor, had induced Private S Morrison, of the 3rd Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment, to procure a rifle for sale. A deal was struck for £2 and the rifle was passed through a window at the Hall. Quigley’s and Morrison’s subsequent arrests led to the raid.
    A detailed account of the 4am raid and Ennis’ trial is documented in the British National Archives at Kew.
    Having greeted the raiding party with the words, “You are quite at liberty”, Ennis continued his good humoured banter by asking, “Are you going to pay me overtime for this, sir?” The search uncovered firearms and Ennis, as the only resident, was arrested.
    He was registered as prisoner 499 at Mountjoy Prison, where he was also listed as a ‘hunger striker’. An approval by the Chief Secretary of Ireland allowed Ennis to sign union papers while at Mountjoy.
    Ennis’ court martial took place on 24th September 1919. He was successfully defended by the eminent republican barrister Patrick Lynch KC, who would later serve as Attorney General. Ennis co-accused Quigley, on the other hand, was sentenced to a year in prison.
    In what seemingly was a reprisal for his acquittal, late one evening the Black and Tans ‘lifted’ Ennis from the Hall, brought him to the Custom House railings and beat him mercilessly on the head with revolvers.
    Years later, Ennis’ obituary stated that he had “given himself up for dead” at the time. Suffering terribly, he dragged himself back over the cobbles at Beresford Place to the Hall and was able to close the door. According to the obituary, he then “swooned from loss of blood and lay almost unconscious until discovered the next morning”.
    His obituary recalled that this was one of “many occasions” that Ennis had “exciting and almost fatal encounters with the armed forces of Dublin Castle”. During the Easter Rising, and under James Connolly’s orders to leave “as the union needed him”, he had staged a dramatic escape from the GPO under machine gun fire to return to Liberty Hall.”

    For more, see

    siptu.medium.com/liberty-halls-courageous-caretaker-1b5b4...
  • Suck Diesel said:
    Image used on front cover of ‘The Impact Of The 1916 Rising: among the nations edited by Ruán O'Donnell, Irish Academic Press, ISBN 978 0 7165 2965’

    archive.irishdemocrat.co.uk/book-reviews/impact-of-1916/

Paying her respects

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  • Niall McAuley said:
    Unless the Kataloguers went Krazy again, I'd say the note on verso says Nora Dore at John Daly's grave
  • Niall McAuley said:
    After the rising, from RTE After the surrender on 29 April Eamon Dore and a number of his colleagues were brought to the Parnell Statue and held there. Later that evening Dore saw his friend Edward Daly, Commandant of the Four Courts garrison lead his men up O’Connell Street.

    So Dore was friends with Edward Daly. John Daly was Edward's uncle, and a very longtime IRB organiser. He died later in 1916.
  • Niall McAuley said:
    There is an interview with Dore at RTE. From the accompanying text:


    As soon as he heard the Rising was on, he made his way to Dublin and managed to get into the GPO. Dore was ordered by MacDiarmada to escort the Daly sisters to Kingsbridge (Heuston) Station. The sister were to bring word to Cork and Limerick that the Rising had begun. He got the girls safely away but when returning to the GPO he noticed a large number of British troops in the area surrounding O'Connell Street.

    ...

    He married Nora Daly in 1918, whom he had brought safely to Kingsbridge Station during the Rising. Eamon Dore died in 1972, he was seventy-six years old.
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    Niall McAuley Great minds etc.
  • Niall McAuley said:
    So Nora Dore was née Daly, presumaby a niece of the deceased.