Six Men Hanged at Mountjoy Dublin was plunged into, morning on March 14, when six young men were hanged in Mountjoy Prison.
The execution gave rise to an amazing demonstration of feeling. For nearly three hours a crowd of about 20,000 people were gathered outside the prison—walls offering up prayers for the spiritual welfare of those who died within, and as a solemn protest the executions there was an entire stoppage of labour until 11 o'clock.
All post offices were closed, telegraphs suspended, and public services withdrawn. Shops remained shuttered, hotel staffs were with-lawn, and guests had chiefly to wit for their breakfast.
In the streets great crowds walked restlessly, and practically the only traffic consisted of lorry loads of armed soldiers, which slowly patrolled the principal thoroughfares. This state of affairs continued until 11 o'clock, when the normal life of the city was gradually resumed.
The suspension of work was carrie ed out upon an instruction issued late the night before by the Irish Labour party.
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The six men who were executed at Mountjoy Prison were Patrick Moran, Thomas Wheelan, Francis Flood, Bernard Ryan, Thomas Bryan, and Patrick Doyle. They were all condemned to death by court-martial in Dublin. Moran and Wheelan were convicted of murder connexion with the shooting of British Intelligence officers in Dublin on "Bloody Sunday," Novem: ber 21. The other four were convicted of the charge of high treason by levying war in an ambush in the Drumcondra district of Dublin. The ages of the men ranged fron nineteen to twenty-eight.
The hangings commenced at six o'clock. The men were executed in pairs, at intervals of an hour, in_the following order Six o'clock: Wheelan and Moran.
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