Dungarvan Observer April 1918
Captain of Lismore Volunteers Arrested
‘Capt.
J.J. Madden, of the local corps of volunteers, was arrested at 8.30p.m. on
Tuesday morning by Sergt. Hannan and Constable Lyne charged with illegal
drilling and unlawful assembly.
He
was brought before Mr Gerald Griffin, R.M., Waterford, during the day and
remanded to Dungarvan Petty Sessions on Saturday, 6th April. At the
4.25p.m. train by which he was removed to Cork Jail, an unusually large crowd
filled the platform and gave several cheers for the popular captain, besides
singing ‘The Soldier’s Song’ as the train steamed in. Mr John Goulding
travelled to Cork with the prisoner. A force of ten policemen marched to the
station with Mr Madden, three of whom formed an escort. Mr. Madden, who is a
native of Nenagh, was Professor at the Christian Brothers’ College here, and
was most popular with all classes’.
Also
arrested at the time were John Keyes and George Lennon of Dungarvan. Lennon
later wrote that conditions in the jail were terrible: ‘there was no heat of
any kind…beds were mere benches, barred windows were devoid of glass and food
was of an appalling poor standard’.
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