ROINN COSANTA. BUREAU OF MILITARY HISTORY, 1913-21 ...

27.learned, of this incident, and he said to me, "You savedmy life that time and I will save yours now. This is noplace for you to be. I will get you shifted to Cork.They believe you were in Drumkeen and, if you are lefthere in Limerick, they will revenge it on you". I said,"Alright". The following day he shifted me to Cork withfive or six others, and we were lodged in Cork Jail.When we got to Cork Jail, Professor O'Rahilly wasthere, also Charlie Culhane of Thurles and a good shard oflads. that I knew. After about a week, one night in themiddle of the night a drunken officer came into the cell tome and said, "Come on'. You are going out". He took ne out.Then I saw the crowd of our fellows and they all lined up.It was raining very hard. He made us get. into the Lorry.We were standing up in the lorry and he said, "Sit down".We had nowhere to sit, and we had to sit down on the wetfloor of the lorry. poor Charlie Culhane, being, an old man,did not want to sit down in the wet, but the officer gavehim a prod of his gun, ordering him roughly to sit down andcalling him an ugly name, and Charlie had to sit down.We were driven down to the Quay in Cork. The next thingwas we were put on a tender, and we found ourselves onSpikeIsland.We were on Spike Island for a good while I wouldsay a couple of months when an incident happened there.We were allowed to play hurley out on the compound.In Spike Island the huts were on one side; in front of thesewas a gravel path and then the barbed wire entanglement.fence and outside that was the compound where we used play.We had hurleys. We were out this day hurling and the ballwent into the wire. Paddy White of Meelick, Co.Clare,rushed over to pull the ball out with the hurley. If he