| Description | Northern Ireland Ministry of Home Affairs files, HA/5 files about murder or manslaughter of various women by B Specials, snipers, etc., 1921-1926; about complaints made by women in Ulster about police raids, claims for compensation, etc., 1921-1926, and applications for neutralisation, 1920s-1930s. The following is a selection of the material which is available:
HA/5/113 A file relating to the alleged intimidation of Mary E McPhilomey, 1922.
HA/5/168 A file relating to the sectarian murder of Mrs H Page at her shop in Belfast, 1922.
HA/5/257 A file relating to a raid at Mrs Brown's house, Coydrummody, County Tyrone, 1922.
HA/5/273 A file relating to the prosecution of Ita McVeigh, a nurse for commandeering a car, County Armagh, 1922-1923.
HA/5/281 A file relating to the attempted murder of Catherine and Katie Green, County Fermanagh, by a B-Special, 1922-1923.
HA/5/295 A file relating to the prosecution of Miss Frances Dowd, Belfast, for using her house as a base for the Irish Republican Army, 1923.
HQ/5/309 A file relating to the complaint of Elizabeth McVeigh after raid of her house, 1923.
HA/5/318 A file relating to the burning of Mrs Devlin's farm, County Londonderry, 1923.
HA/5/328 A file relating to the murder of Martha Lunny, County Fermanagh, 1923.
HA/5/334 A file relating to Republican literature sent to Mrs Baker, County Fermanagh, 1923.
HA/5/395 A file relating to the prosecution of Catherine McDaid, County Fermanagh, for cruelty to her child which she abandoned, 1923.
HA/5/508 A file relating to the alleged secret burial of a child's body in a graveyard at Cleenish Island, County Fermanagh, 1925.
HA/5/553 A file relating to the prosecution of Mrs Mary Hamill, County Armagh, for stealing turf, with correspondence about sympathetic remarks by a magistrate, 1926.
HA/5/569 A file relating to the prosecution of Josephine Moore, Belfast for the murder of her child, 1928.
HA/5/785; HA/5/1337-1338 Files about prosecutions for bigamy, 1921-1928.
HA/5/804; HA/5/1149; HA/5/2016 Files relating to the case of Josephine Moore, convicted of murdering her child, including letter from Miss E S Montgomery, Belfast Women's Advisory Council, asking why the Infanticide Act 1922 (England) did not apply in Northern Ireland; with reply stating that the Act did apply, but that it was only applicable in the case of a woman who causes the death of her newborn child, Moore's child being fifteen months old, 1922-1928.
HA/5/819-820 Files relating to the prosecution of women for bringing poteen into Northern Ireland from County Donegal, 1921-1931.
HA/5/861 File relating to the objection to appoint a sub-postmistress at Ballynahinch, County Down, on religious grounds, 1922-1923 (access to this file is restricted).
HA/5/988; HA/5/1490; HA/5/1702 Files relating to an investigation into complaints made against, Mrs Harnett, a female searcher, Kilkeel, County Down, 1922-1923.
HA/5/1139 A file relating to Mrs Susan Savage, born in County Down, who lost her British nationality on marriage to an American, but was not a citizen of the United States, 1926
HA/5/1152 A file relating to application of Maria Forte, whose uncle was an ice-cream vendor in the Falls Road, Belfast, to stay in Belfast for a further six months to perfect her English; with further correspondence about refusal to let her stay permanently, her uncle being willing to buy her a shop, because this may lead to eventual displacement of British labour, 1929-1930.
HA/5/1478 A packet of documents relating to Cumann na mBan, 1922.
HA/5/1493-2531 internment files including cases relating to women, 1922-1924.
HA/5/1952 A file relating to case of Crawford versus Crawford under the Married Women's (Maintenance) Act, 1886: Mrs Wilhelmina Crawford, formerly of Londonderry, versus Isaac Crawford in Sydney, Australia, 1925-1928.
HA/5/2029 A file relating to the question of whether legislation similar to the Marriage (Prohibited Degrees of Relationship) Act should be introduced in Northern Ireland, 1929-1932.
HA/5/2251 A file relating to an exclusion order against Countess Constance Markievicz, 1924-1927.
HA/5/2441 A file relating to claims for sweets by female internees, 1923.
HA/5/2570 A file relating to the imprisonment and release of Mary O'Reilly of Dublin, aged 16, found in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, with a document in German hidden in her coat, 1925.
HA/5/2595 Files about prosecution and internment of individual women in Ulster for circulating seditious literature, possession of explosives, firearms and ammunition; with republican newspapers and other confiscated material, 1922.
HA/5/2709 A file relating to dismissal of Mrs M A Gormley, postmistress at Belleek, County Fermanagh, with petitions by local residents [her husband Patrick Gormley was interned], 1922. |
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