Headstone by Barry's of Midleton

“… in one famous case during the defence of ‘Fort Murphy’ on the Fell Estate near Watergrasshill when he [Sheehan] and fellow MP Eugene Crean were involved in physical altercations with the local RIC force. Along with O’Brien and a number of other local political figures, Sheehan was also involved outside the courthouse where the ‘Fort Murphy Defenders’ were arraigned and sentenced to varying prison terms.”
Carla King – Defying the Law of the Land: Agrarian Radicals in Irish History

“The tithe system passed away, and in its turn the landlord system fell, and the Glanmire and Carrignavar districts played their part in the many agitations which brought about those changes
 
In 1909, the famous Fellsfort eviction took place when a farmer names Murphy barricaded his house to resist eviction. He and those who acted with him served a term in Cork Male Prison.”
 
A History of the Glashabuee District – John T Collins

“One such dispute came shortly after the Ballyhooly meeting, when he and DD Sheehan (MP for Mid-Cork) took on a party of RIC men sent to carry out an eviction at the house of Edward Murphy near Watergrasshill. Murphy’s house became a mini-fort, where a number of parties sent to carry out the eviction were repelled with paving stones and boiling water. Crean and Sheehan were cautioned by the police for daring to throw stale bread at them! Later, when Murphy and his fellow ‘defenders’ were arrested, Crean, along with fellow MPs Captain Donelan (East Cork), O’Brien (re-elected for Cork city in August 1904) and Sheehan, were involved in scuffles with the police outside the courthouse at Riverstown”
Turbulent Cork

1904: October 21st
“Prominent in the news is the account of an eviction at Watergrasshill, Co. Cork. A family were to be evicted from their holding. There was resistance to the bailiffs. A large force of police was present. After a fight with "the peelers", acting on advice of Eugene Crean, M.P. and the local Curate, the people submitted.
 
The defenders of the, house were charged at the Petty Sessions Court, Wednesday, 19th. On some provocation or other, real or fancied, the police baton charged the people outside the court. Several people were injured. There is a tremendous furore. The United Irish League are demanding a Government enquiry into the occurrence. There are threats of prosecuting
the police!
The baton charge looks almost like Dublin Castle's reply to O'Brien's policy of conciliation!
 
In "Cork Weekly Examiner" there are some amusing pictures of the baton charge.”
 
Liam deRóiste – Witness Statement, Bureau of Military History
 

‘tell me true tell me why was Jesus crucified
is it for this that daddy died?’
Roger Waters - Pink Floyd

‘“I have a recollection from 1978. There was a lady called Hilary Tindall. She was very popular at the time because she was appearing in a TV series called The Brothers. She came with her father-in-law who was a tall, imposing, very mature man. His name was John Loder. That was a screen name. He had been a movie actor over five decades. While my wife was assigned to look after Hilary Tindall during her period at the festival, I hung around with her father-in-law.
“I casually asked him in conversation had he been to Ireland before. ‘Oh, yes, I have,’ he said. I said: ‘Was it on business or pleasure?’ He said, ‘Well, you could kind of say it was on business. I came here with my father. I met your Mr Pearse.’ I was thinking I didn’t know any Pearse who was involved in the festival but he was talking about Patrick Pearse.
“His father was General Lowe who was the man responsible for suppressing the Easter Rising in Dublin. John Lowe, his son, had been commissioned into the 15th Hussars in 1915. He went to Gallipoli. He came back from Gallipoli in December 1915 and joined up with his father in the Curragh. Then, of course, the rising happened. General Lowe and his men were sent into Dublin to suppress it. His 18-year-old son went with him. If you see the photographs of Patrick Pearse surrendering to two rather tall men, the big lanky one is John Loder, the film actor who I met.”’
Irish Examiner

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