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Sean Nethercott.
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Sean Nethercott. |
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Shay Nethercott |
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1960s |
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Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh |
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Sean Nethercott, a prominent Nationalist spokesman of the 1920s.
Following a period of public disorder in the spring of 1922, a Special Powers Act was passed allowing suspects to be detained without trial and courts to be set up with powers to impose sentences such as whipping, penal servitude and capital punishment. On foot of this Act and following the murder of a member of the N.I. parliament on 22 May, two hundred men, all Catholics, were arrested and interned. They included political as well as militant opponents to the new state of Northern Ireland. About fifty detainees were from Fermanagh including the Nationalist leader Cahir Healy and Sean Nethercott. A month later most of these were interned on the Argenta, an old ship moored in Belfast Lough. Internment on the Argenta lasted for almost two years.
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