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THE REVOLUTION PAPERS - PART 21

1919
CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE POLICE
Dramatic events in Limerick after two constables shot


Newspapers: 
  • Limerick Leader, 18 April 1919
  • Weekly Irish Times, 26 April 1919
  • Freeman's Journal,14 May 1919

Contemporary documents: 
'The Limerick Soviet' and 'Boycott of the police'


Contents and articles:
Revolution Chronicle

'A city isolated': a boycott of the police, a double shooting and a town thrown into turmoil
'Bolshevik Limerick': workers take over the city
'Driving a wedge between the police and the people': Dáil Éireann instructs the Irish public to ignore the police

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