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The
Bogus Prosecution of the Drumshambo Rowdies in
Carrick
The
secret alliance that exists between Parnell and
Balfour
was made clear to all men by the transactions
in
Carrick on Saturday last. The Drumshambo Rowdies
who
led the attack on the Nationalist meeting last
February
in Carrick, were put on their trial for riot
in a
Crimes Act court before Removables Paul and
after
some mysterious “colloguings” between the
solicitors,
it was announced that the Crown had
withdrawn
the prosecutions against R. J. Cryan, and
James
McDermott, jun., tailor, Carrick, and John
McManus,
rate collector, Drumshambo. […]
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19
April 1902
The
Auxilliaries
The
next matter under consideration of the affiliation
of
Cloonloo and Carrowcrory auxilliaries with the
Boyle
Society. […] The experts of the Irish
Agricultural
Organization Society, Mr Horace Plunkett
and
Father Finlay, were in favour of the establishment
of the
auxilliaries.
Mr
Cryan said he had come there on behalf of the
Carrowcrory
auxiliary. He even advised the Carrowcrory
shareholders
not to come to this meeting as
shareholders
at all, although he believed they got
notice
to attend. He told them not to attend as it
would
cause friction.
Chairman
- That is a wrong opinion.
Mr
Cryan said from experience at the last meeting it
would
come to something like it. They came prepared to
pay
their own expenses, and if required would pay for
their
house and machinery. They only wanted
co-operation.
They were prepared to do their part if
the
Boyle Society did theirs.
Mr
McManamy - I think I can speak for the Cloonloo
shareholders,
and I say we are prepared to pay for our
house
and machinery.
The
chairman asked how may cows they could guarantee
from
Carrowcrory.
Mr
Cryan - Unfortunately I did not come exactly
prepared.
Chairman
- Would you have 200?
Mr
Cryan - We could have 500 cows. We have 300 at the
present
time.
Mr
McManamy said he could endorse every word of what
Mr
Cryan had said with regard to the expense of
getting
up the house and machinery. He defied any man
prove
that their expenses will be £3 a week. […]
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Roscommon
Herald
January
30 1892
Cloonfinlough
to the Front
Mr Michael Carley, Cloonfinlough, processed
Michael
Cryan, of the
same
place,
for trespass amounting to £6 regarding a
disputed
portion of
bog.
Mr McDonnell was for the plaintiff, and Mr
Joseph
Burke,
B.L.
defended.
Mr Hanley, surveyor, produced the map, and
gave
evidence
as to the
survey.
Here Mr McDonnell drew attention to Cryan,
who
looking
daggers at
the
surveyor.
Carley examined by Mr McDonnell - My father
before
me was
using
this
piece
of bog. I had it in tillage three years. Mr
Holmes,
the agent,
told
the
bailiff to allow me till the cut-away. The third
year
all the
"splits"
were
turn up. The Head Constable came out, and Cryan
said
it was he dug
up
"the
spuds". The same year Cryan's son pulled up the
stalks,
and he was
fined
before the magistrates. They appealed, and it
was
not heard
since.
I
lost about
30 cwt of potatoes.
To Mr Burke - I am tenant to the landlord
of that
portion.
I did
not
put
that
piece in the courts to have a fair rent fixed. I
had
the title of
it,
and
Cryan never paid rent for it. I had the bog, in
addition
to my
land.
I
put
about a hundred ass loads of manure on that bog. I
was
put to jail
a
long
time ago over a dispute regarding that bog.
Cryan ("sotto voce") - And his
father and his
mother
(laughter).
Mr McDonnell - Mr Cryan won't deny that
himself
was in
jail. It is
the
case
of many a good man.
Mr Burke interrupted.
Mr McDonnell - Will you sit down, Mr Burke,
you
are
like a man with
a
bee in
your -- well, somewhere (laughter).
Mr McDonnell said his throat was sore
today, and
he
would not talk.
Mr
Burke
sat down. Cold water was strong today.
John Elwood, who was served with a subpoena
did
not
appear.
His Lordship fined Elwood £1.
Jane Carley deposed in reply to Mr
McDonnell, that
she
was in
occupation
of the
place twenty three years.
Mr
Byrne, the bailiff, gave evidence in favour of
Carley.
To his Lordship - I know what those fools are
fighting
about. It
is not
worth
their dinner. I gave permission to Carley from
Mr
Holmes to till
part
of
this bog.
Pat Barry deposed in reply to Mr McDonnell
that
the
bog was worth
twopence
a year. Cryan never used this bog before
Carley,
and he had
crops
on it
three years.
His Lordship did not proceed further with
the
case.
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Roscommon
Herald
March
30 1895
The
Old Woman and the Young Man
Catherine Walsh summoned a respectable
looking man
named
James
Cryan
for
having
assaulted her. Cryan had a cross-case against
Catherine
for a
like
reason.
The parties live near Boyle on the
Catherine deposed that on last Monday week
Cryan
went
into her
garden
and
assaulted her by throwing her to the ground. They
had
words about
hay,
and
after throwing her Cryan took the hay away. A
brother
of Cryan's
came
in
at the
end and beseeched them to make peace.
Cryan - How often did you strike me with
the
stick?
Catherine - Ah, about twenty times I
believe
(laughter).
How often did you strike me with stones?
Ah, go
long
out of that,
you
and
the stones (laughter).
Didn't you throw stones at me? - Sure an
ould
woman
like me
couldn't
be
a
little boy like you (laughter).
Mr Bull - Did you strike him with the
stick?
Catherine - I did.
Mr Bull -Was that before or after he threw
you? -
After.
Cryan - Did you know that I had that hay
from your
son? -
No.
Mr Bull said the court would be quite right
in
protecting
the
woman,
but
they
could not allow her to strike a man with a stick.
Mr Gillespie asked Catherine if she had any
witnesses.
Catherine - Ah, sorra witness. It was his
brother
came
into the
garden.
Cryan - Her own cousin was there.
John Cryan, brother of the defendant,
deposed,
amid
comical
ejaculations
from
Catherine, that when he and his brother went to
take
the hay,
which
they
had authority to do, Catherine struck the
defendant
several times
with
a
stick.
Catherine - What are you going down there at all
for?
What claim
have
you?
Defendant deposed that at the time
plaintiff's son
got
married to
his
sister,
he gave him authority to take the hay. He had
a
letter from her
son
to
that defect. He (defendant) would not
strike an
old
woman like the
plaintiff.
Mr Bull said that if they were satisfied
that
Cryan
assaulted the
woman
in the
first instance they would send him to jail -
Catherine - He wants that (laughter).
Mr
Bull -For a month. But she assaulted first, and
both
cases were
dismissed.
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Roscommon
Herald
30
March 1895
Transfer
of License
Mr John Cryan applied for the transfer of
the
license
held by Mr
F.R.
Phillips,
Mr Gillespie explained that Mr Cryan had Mr
McDermot,
solicitor,
employed
but that gentleman was absent.
Mr Michael Cunningham, T.C. said he had all
the
documents
in
connection
with
the sale of the house to Mr Cryan, which sale he
as an
auctioneer
had
executed. On Mr McDermot's return the assignment
would
be completed.
Mr Bull - Is he in possession of the
premises?
Mr Cunningham - Virtually. He has paid the
money.
In reply to Mr Bull,
Mr Cryan said he desired to carry on the
spirit
trade
in Mr
Phillips
premises.
Mr Bull - I was under the impression that
you were
taking
Mr
O'Connor's
house.
Mr Cunningham - No. Mahon's house. He
expended a
large
sum of money
on
that
place, but, of course, he will have to forego it.
Mr Bull
- Very well, the bench are unanimous in
granting
the
license
till
the June Quarter Sessions.
A few unimportant drunkenness cases having
been
disposed
of, their
worships
rose.
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Roscommon
Herald
Saturday
July 27, 1895
Alleged
Abusing A Woman
Mrs Bridget Cryan, the Crescent, summoned
James
Quinn,
a neighbour,
for
using
abusive language towards her. There was a
cross-summons
for a
like
offence.
Plaintiff stated that Quinn gave her the
height of
scandal.
He said
he
would
walk on her, called her a rogue, and said her
husband
was a
rotten
soldier.
She had to bring him up before for his
conduct.
Mr Bull - What is the cause of this?
Quinn - It is all politics, sir (laughter).
Plaintiff - I never spoke to him for the
last
three
years, since I
got
him
bound to the peace ---
Quinn - You and your husband only summon at
election
times. I deny
the
charge.
Mr Bull - Have you any questions to ask
her?
Quinn - I have (to plaintiff) - On your
oath did
you
not say on the
18th
that
"the Parnellites" and the "big-headed man"
(laughter)
were landed?
-On
my
oath I did not, and I can call a gentleman who
witnessed
your
conduct.
Mrs Ellen Doherty deposed to hearing Quinn
say he
would
walk on Mrs
Cryan,
who never answered him. Quinn was always at her
(witness)
as
well
as
Mrs
Cryan.
Quinn - Didn't this woman send you to abuse
me?
Witness - Never.
Quinn - She did, and especially since the
last
General
Election
they
would
not allow a cart of turf turn up to my door. I
never
spoke to
this
woman
or her husband by night and day since the last
General
Election.
Mr Bull - She says you did more than abuse
her.
Quinn - Well, I did not.
Martin Doherty was called for the
plaintiff. He
said
he was passing
by
the
scene of the row when Mrs Cryan called him to
witness
the affair.
He
only
heard Mr Quinn say he would not be walked upon.
Plaintiff said Mr Powell, of the bank,
witnessed
the
defendant's
conduct.
Richard Fairbanks was also called in
support of
Mrs
Cryan. He
thought
it
was
only an ordinary scolding match between the two
(laughter).
He
heard
Quinn
call plaintiff a rogue.
Plaintiff - On your oath did you hear me
answering
him? -
I did.
They
were
both abusing each other.
The cross-case was then gone into.
Quinn deposed that on the evening of the
18th -
the
nomination day
for
North
Roscommon - Mrs Cryan and Mary Doherty came out
and
abused him.
On the
morning
of that evening he was at the rent-office
complaining
that they
would
not allow a cart be brought to his door. She
said
--"the
big-headed
Orangeman
is landed" (laughter) and "priest-hunter."
Previous
to that
she
sent
her son, of something about five years, after him
to
call him the
same
thing.
Mr Bull - How do you know whether she did
or not?
Quinn - I saw her telling him. She is
trying to
corrupt
me and
break
my
vote
since the last General Election (a laugh).
Mrs Cryan - He has a gun in the place, and
he said
he
would blow my
brains
out.
Corporal Cryan then ascended the table.
Quinn - This man goes around the town with
his
pamphlets
trying to
induce
people to vote for ---
Mr Bull - Why would he not do that? He has
a
perfect
right to do
it.
Corporal Cryan, not being present at the
scene
which
gave rise to
the
summons
was not present.
Patrick Casey deposed to hearing Mr Quinn
say he
would
not be
tramped
upon.
He could not say that Mrs Cryan was speaking to
him.
Quinn - The object is - to get me bound to
the
peace,
the way I
would
be
disenfranchised
(laughter).
Mr Bull - Ah, that is nonsense. You both
seem to
have
been abusing
each
other.
So I dismiss the case. Go about your business
(laughter).
The other cases before the court were
adjourned
for
the attendance
of
solicitors.
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SATURDAY
APRIL
11 1891
THE
PROSECUTION OF THE DRUMSHAMBO ROWDIES IN CARRICK
On
last Friday a Crimes Act Court was held at
Carrick-on-Shannon
before Mr.
Paul,
R.M., and Capt. Preston, R.M., to dispose of the
charge
of riot against
Paddy
McManus, Corney McManus and John McManus of
Drumshanbo
and Robert J.
Cryan
and James McDermott, Jr. of Carrick, the
ringleaders
in the attack on
the
Nationalist meeting there on the 22ndFeb. last.
Mr.
Friery, solicitor, Dublin, appeared for John
McManus,
Mr. Slacke,
solicitor
for Paddy and Corny McManus and Mr. Bergin
for
Cryan and McDermott.
Mr.
Morphy, B.L., instructed by Mr. Croker, S.C.S.,
prosecuted.
The
prosecution
was practically a farce, the police
witnesses
called being the
men
who managed to see nothing on the occasion.
Sergeant
Danial O Mara of Carrick was the first
witness.
He saw Paddy McManus
coming
into town that day at the head of about 40 men
with
sticks. They were
joined
by about a 100 in Carrick, and paraded the town
carrying
a portrait of
Parnell.
They were cheering and above the din he heard
Paddy
McManus shouting
they
would put an end to Whiggery in Carrick. He saw
the
Ballinamore
contingent
coming, and the drumstick pulled from
one
of
them. Father Donohoe
led
the Mohill people, and he saw a conflict with
sticks
and stone throwing.
He
could not say were Paddy and John McManus there
then,
but he saw them go
towards
the direction of the conflict. There were
about
20 people on the
platform,
and Mr. Jasper Tully was amongst them. He
saw
Corny McManus
shouting
and groaning and winding a big stick over his
head,
and afterwards
chasing
a man into Mrs. Owen McDermotts. When Canon
Hoare
was speaking, some
one on
the platform said "Kitty O'Shea." Paddy McManus
shouted
" Not another
word"
and then in the din of the confusion set up
again.
He saw McDermott,
Cryan,
and the McManus's at the breaking up of the
platform,
and their
conduct
was bad. The priests then held the meeting in
the
chapel-yard, and
the Drumshambo
people brought down Parnell's banner,
and
placed it before the
chapel
door and commenced groaning, shouting and
whistling.
The Drumshambo
people
were not the only Parnellites.
Mr.
Bergin said the Carrick Parnellites could have
swept
the town if they
wished.
MR.
FRIERY: Did you consider the reterence to Mrs.
O'Shea
bythe seceders an
insult
to Mr. Parnell or his followers?
WITNESS:
Well, they took it as an insult.
Constable
Irwin proved that Robert Cryan was waving
his
hat and cheering for
Parnell
when Canon Hoare was trying to speak. There
was a
man named Hunt from
Boyle
very prominent there that day.
Constable
James Fitzgerald swore he saw the McManuss
do
nothing but cheer and shout. They cheered for
Parnell.
He saw an ordinary stick with Corny
McManus.
He did not see Cryan and McDermott do
anything
but cheer.
To Mr.
Paul I saw the Drumshanbo men strike the
people.
Constable
Robert Shaw disposed that he saw the
McManuss
take part in
scuffling
at the platform.
Constable
George Richardson, Drumshanbo, in his
evidence
mentioned that he
saw
the three McManus's, of Drumshanbo, assisting in
pulling
down the
platform.
To Mr.
Bergin---John McManus is a rate collector , and
he
gave us a seat. The defendants are all respectable.
Constable
David Noonan deposed that the man he saw
handling
Parnell's banner
and
carrying it with another in front of the chapel
door
was Pat Malone, of
Drumshambo.
Thomas
Egan, a Parnellite, from Attirory near Carrick,
was
next examined; He
got a
black eye that day.
Was it
through friendship you were struck?
- No
Is
your political opinion known in Carrick?
I
appeal to the Head Constable (great laughter)
Cross
examined by Mr. Bergin -I was on Mr. Parnells
side
that day. (laughter)
To Mr.
Slacke -I believe it was a McCarthyite who
struck
me.(laughter)
Owen
Hunt, Patrick Early, P.L.G., the Very Rev. Canon
J.
Hoare,P.P.V.F.,
Carrick-on-Shannon,
Rev. F. Donohoe, P.P., Mohill;
Jasper
Tully, Boyle; Dr.
Mulcahy,
Coroner, Ballinamore having been called as
Crown
witnesses.
The
Court adjourned until Saturday week.
Great
indignation is felt at the action of the
authorities
in endeavoring to
make
prosecutors of the Priests.
Father
Donohoe's letter in the National Press today
has
caused great
consternation
in official quarters, and a copy of this
paper
has been
impounded.
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11th
April 1891
EXPULSION
OF PARNELLITE ROWDIES
Mr.
J.Mulligan, Co. Secretary, said as the business
pertaining
to
championship
was concluded; he wished to say a few
words
concerning one of
their
brother members, and it was no other individual
than
the saintly
creature
Mr.R.J.Q.W.T.R. Cryan, (laughter) the
"honourable"
representative
of the
Carrick-on-Shannon team who had created so much
trouble and disunion
in the
country...the so called ringleader of the
recent
disgraceful scenes at
Carrick.
By his means their priests, whom they loved
so
well, had been
warranted
by Government authority because they would
not
appear before
Balfour's
court to proscute the rowdies of Carrick and
Drumshanbo.
They had
caused
the disturbance at Carrick meeting while
District-Inspector
Rogers let
Irishmen
spill one another's blood. It was sought to
put
the Priests and
their
flocks at variance. It was misguided men like
Cryan
who were
instrumental
in that.
Therefore,
he now proposed the expulsion of Cryan from
the
County Council,
because
by having him amongst them it would be casting
a slur
and disgrace on
them
as Gaels and Nationalists. He did not want to be
any
way bitter towards
a man
to express his opinions whether Parnellite or
Nationalist,
but they
could
not tolerate a man through whose rowdyism their
priests,
perhaps, may
be
before many days lodged in Balfour's dungeons.
Mr.
Peter Mcguire seconded the expulsion of Cryan.
CHAIRMAN: that is a resolution concerning politics,
and I
will not entertain
it, it
may cause disunion.
MR.MULLIGAN:
I beg your pardon, Mr. Chairman. You must
entertain
it. How
well politics were, entertained at our last
meeting,
and
there was no
objection
or disunion.
HAIRMAN:
Well, I was not chairman.
MR.MULLIGAN:
You should have attended. As long as the
chairman
has such
quibbling
I will resign and you can put Mr. Cryan in
my
place (no, no)
I will
never sit with a man like Cryan whose acts are
the
means of having the
men of
Mohill, perhaps, to part with their
priests
for
some time (murmurs)
The
meeting declared strongly against Cryan , and
Mr.
Mulligan left the
room
followed by everyman present except the chair and
the
Cloone
representative.
Mr. Mulligan's followers again
returned
to the room when Mr.
Michael
Murphy, P.L.G., Capt. Fenagh St.Cailins, was
moved to the chair.
Mr.
Mulligan again proposed the expulsion of Cryan
which
was seconded 'una
voce'
by eleven Nationalists and warmly endorsed by a
ringing
cheer from
hundreds
outside.
The
chairman Mr. Murphy, P.L.G., said he never had
greater
pleasure in
putting
a resolution to a meeting than the present
one.
The resolution was
carried
with great enthusiasm.
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The
Roscommon Herald, Boyle
Saturday,
Sept 21 1895
NOTICE
OFAPPLICATION TO QUARTER SESSIONS FOR
CERTIFICATE
FOR PUBLICAN'S
LICENSE
TAKE NOTICE
that it is my intention to apply at the
next
general Quarter
Sessions,
to be held at Boyle, in and for the Division
of
Boyle, and County
of
Roscommon, on the 18th day of October
next, for
amagistrate's
certificate
to
entitle me to receive a Confirmation of the license
to
sell Beer, Cider,
and
Spirits, by retail at my dwelling house,
situate
at
Bridge Street,
Boyle, in the parish of Boyle, Barony of Boyle and
County
of Roscommon.
Date
this 11th day of Sep. 1895, JOHN CRYAN
(applicant)
P.C.P
MacDermot, Solicitor for Applicant, Boyle
To
R.R. Fry,Esq., J.P;
Major
Murphy, J.P;
W.H.Robinson,
Esq.;
Clerk
of the Crown and Peace, Peace Office, Roscommon;
and to
C.H.
Rafter,Esq., D.I.,R.I.C., Boyle
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21
March 1891
NEWS
IN BRIEF:
Crimes
act summonses have been served on the
ringleaders
of the Drumshanbo
and
Carrick rowdies who broke up the Carrick meeting.
They
are charged with riot and unlawful assembly, and
the
defendants are
Paddy
McManus, Corny McManus, John McManus, James
McDermott,
Drumshanbo, and
Robert
J. P. Q. Cryan. Paddy McManus is a most
arrant
coward,
because when
he was in Kilmainham for a couple of months as a
suspect
, he signed the
most
humiliating conditions to get out. A
dose of the
plank-bed
was one of
the
things he never bargained for when he came out
cheering
the police and
attacking
the priests in Carrick. [...]
Date: Thu,
6 Sep 2001 11:32:00 +0100 (BST)
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Subject: [Cryan
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Subject: [Cryan et al.] Roscommon Herald Articles No
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to Judy for the typing
16th February
1895
HE
FOUGHT AND RAN AWAY
JamesBeirne,
Kiltycreighton, summoned a young neighbor
named
Pat Cryan for
having
assaulted him on 1st inst.
Plaintiff
stated that he had been settling with the
defendant's
uncle about
the
service of cows, opposite Mr. Clarke's in the
Black
Lane, when the
defendant
approached them and said to the uncle "Have
nothing
to do with that man" whereupon he struck
plaintiff
on the forehead and ran away.
Owen
Shannon deposed to seeing the blow struck in the
manner
described by plaintiff.
DEFENDANT: Did you see my uncle go between us and
prevent
him striking me when he made the rush at me?
WITNESS:
I did not. I was standing between you both.
Michael
Horan stated he only heard Beirne say he was
struck
by Cryan.
Cryan
had across-case against Beirne for assault. He
stated
Beirne was only offering his uncle 7s 6d for
the
service, instead of 16s. He was insisting on the
uncle
taking the small amount. When he ( Cryan) asked
his
uncle to come home Beirne said,"What has he got to
do
with you?" and rushed at him with a stick, aiming a
blow
at him , and nearly pushing him through Mr.
Clarke's
window. His uncle said to Beirne that it was
a
shame to strike the little boy.
James
Cryan and Michael Tooman gave evidence as to
seeing
young Cryan get the shove.
John
O'Rourke was sworn but he could not throw any
light
on the matter.
The
bench fined Cryan 5s and costs, and dismissed the
cross-case
against
Beirne.
CRYAN: Only for I struck him that night there
was a
danger
of him killing
me,
because he is a fighting man (laughter)
MR.
BULL:You appear to be fighting man yourself (a
laugh)
Date: Thu,
6 Sep 2001 11:32:50 +0100 (BST)
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>From BOYLE, Saturday, Sept 12, 1891