Scoil: Goggin's Hill, Béal Átha an Easaigh (uimhir rolla 12263)

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1. Ballinhassig Massacre (ar lean)

   

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   In a moment Ballinhassig rang with a discharge of firearms. The policemen in the hut had fired, and a woman coming out of a house at the north side of the village Cross, fell, mortally wounded.
   A scene followed which Hodnett scarcely anticipated. There was a pause of consternation, a wild stampede, and then, yelling with rage, a body of men charged against the hut. The police discharged a second volley. The people, broken on their onslaught grew every moment, more furious. Hodnett's assassins, as if now forced to fight for their lives, fired as fast as they could load. It is not known how long this lasted. At all events, the country people succeeded, after several ineffectual rushes, in coming to close quarters with their enemies and proceeded to demolish the hut.
   The firing had ceased awhile for the supply of bullets had run out, whereupon the police utilized the buttons of their jackets, but these did relatively little damage.
   At length, a policeman was dragged out between the boards, but was saved through the intervention of an old woman, who, in the first moment of danger, had the

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   Stair Athraigh

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Faisnéiseoir

   Mr Bartholomew Covney

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Aois

   70

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   Seoladh

   Baile na Bearna, Co. Chorcaí