A vignette from the Dublin Police Court of 1917 as twenty youths arrested for illegal drilling repeat their alleged offence in the Dublin Police Court while singing the Soldier’s Song – just one of many political protests which took place in Irish courtrooms during the period 1917-1925.
There was much public support for the accused, and an interesting sentencing outcome:
“The imprisonment at first was to be with hard labour, but as the lads declared they would do no labour the sentence was modified.”
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