On This Day / June 5, 1921
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Summary: On This Day – 5th June 1921, a Belfast girl died after sectarian violence, a Special was killed in an accidental shooting and Jewish support for Irish relief grew in America. Edited by Éamon Phoenix.
Specials’ ‘Friendly Fire’ | On This Day – 5th June 1921
MISTAKING a Special Constable in mufti for a Sinn Feiner at Armagh on Thursday night, a patrol of B Men called upon him to halt.
He disobeyed the order and was fired at and, mistaking the B men for Sinn Feiners, he returned the fire and safely reached the Market Street barracks.
Meanwhile the death has occurred of Special Constable Armstrong, a native of Drum, County Monaghan, who was wounded by the accidental discharge of a comrade’s revolver in Gortin police barracks.
Jews and the Irish cause
THE splendid generosity of the Jewish race and the readiness with which they respond to a purely humanitarian appeal have probably never been better exemplified than in the case of the campaign which the American Committee for Relief in Ireland [AMCOMRI] is now conducting.
The campaign has been endorsed by such distinguished and national figures as President Harding but no section of the US people have been so generous in their response than those of the Hebrew race.
The action of the [Jewish] Climber Social Club in Brooklyn in raising a million dollars among the thousand groups that go to make up the club is typical of the Jewish attitude in the United States.
‘The need of help is imperative,’ said Rabbi Krauskopf of Philadelphia.
How imperative is told in a cable received recently by AMCOMRI to which the signatories include chairmen and laymen of the Church of Ireland, Methodist Trust, Society of Friends and finally the leading Rabbi of that country, Isaac Herzog, MA who spoke for 600 Jews in Dublin alone.
Child Wounded in Sectarian Attack Dies
LENA Kelly (13), who resided with her parents at Kilmood Street, Belfast died in the Mater Infirmorum Hospital yesterday as a result of the wounds received on the night of 19th May in Ballymacarrett.
On that occasion an Anti-Partition meeting had been held in Seaforde Street and the people returning home were the victims of an Orange attack from the Newtownards Road.
A Crossley tender came on the scene and the crowds were fired upon, the little girl Lena being struck with a bullet in the mouth.
The medical and nursing staffs of the Mater were unremitting in their care and attention to the unfortunate little patient but she passed away though the bullet has been extracted.
(Éamon Phoenix editor’s note: Born in Poland, Isaac Hertzog (1888-1959) who served as rabbi in Belfast and then Chief Rabbi of Ireland, was a close friend of de Valera.
In 1920, the Rabbi described Belfast’s sectarian violence as a ‘pogrom’ against Catholic minority.
His son, Chaim Hertzog became President of Israel in 1983.)
On This Day – 5th June 1921
Further Reading on Irish History:
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Summary: On This Day – 5th June 1921, a Belfast girl died after sectarian violence, a Special was killed in an accidental shooting and Jewish support for Irish relief grew in America. Edited by Éamon Phoenix.
Specials’ ‘Friendly Fire’ | On This Day – 5th June 1921
MISTAKING a Special Constable in mufti for a Sinn Feiner at Armagh on Thursday night, a patrol of B Men called upon him to halt.
He disobeyed the order and was fired at and, mistaking the B men for Sinn Feiners, he returned the fire and safely reached the Market Street barracks.
Meanwhile the death has occurred of Special Constable Armstrong, a native of Drum, County Monaghan, who was wounded by the accidental discharge of a comrade’s revolver in Gortin police barracks.
Jews and the Irish cause
THE splendid generosity of the Jewish race and the readiness with which they respond to a purely humanitarian appeal have probably never been better exemplified than in the case of the campaign which the American Committee for Relief in Ireland [AMCOMRI] is now conducting.
The campaign has been endorsed by such distinguished and national figures as President Harding but no section of the US people have been so generous in their response than those of the Hebrew race.
The action of the [Jewish] Climber Social Club in Brooklyn in raising a million dollars among the thousand groups that go to make up the club is typical of the Jewish attitude in the United States.
‘The need of help is imperative,’ said Rabbi Krauskopf of Philadelphia.
How imperative is told in a cable received recently by AMCOMRI to which the signatories include chairmen and laymen of the Church of Ireland, Methodist Trust, Society of Friends and finally the leading Rabbi of that country, Isaac Herzog, MA who spoke for 600 Jews in Dublin alone.
Child Wounded in Sectarian Attack Dies
LENA Kelly (13), who resided with her parents at Kilmood Street, Belfast died in the Mater Infirmorum Hospital yesterday as a result of the wounds received on the night of 19th May in Ballymacarrett.
On that occasion an Anti-Partition meeting had been held in Seaforde Street and the people returning home were the victims of an Orange attack from the Newtownards Road.
A Crossley tender came on the scene and the crowds were fired upon, the little girl Lena being struck with a bullet in the mouth.
The medical and nursing staffs of the Mater were unremitting in their care and attention to the unfortunate little patient but she passed away though the bullet has been extracted.
(Éamon Phoenix editor’s note: Born in Poland, Isaac Hertzog (1888-1959) who served as rabbi in Belfast and then Chief Rabbi of Ireland, was a close friend of de Valera.
In 1920, the Rabbi described Belfast’s sectarian violence as a ‘pogrom’ against Catholic minority.
His son, Chaim Hertzog became President of Israel in 1983.)
On This Day – 5th June 1921
Further Reading on Irish History:
List of other On This Day columns
Other resources: National Library of Ireland Irish News CAIN Archive
19210605
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Summary: On This Day – 5th June 1921, a Belfast girl died after sectarian violence, a Special was killed in an accidental shooting and Jewish support for Irish relief grew in America. Edited by Éamon Phoenix.
Specials’ ‘Friendly Fire’ | On This Day – 5th June 1921
MISTAKING a Special Constable in mufti for a Sinn Feiner at Armagh on Thursday night, a patrol of B Men called upon him to halt.
He disobeyed the order and was fired at and, mistaking the B men for Sinn Feiners, he returned the fire and safely reached the Market Street barracks.
Meanwhile the death has occurred of Special Constable Armstrong, a native of Drum, County Monaghan, who was wounded by the accidental discharge of a comrade’s revolver in Gortin police barracks.
Jews and the Irish cause
THE splendid generosity of the Jewish race and the readiness with which they respond to a purely humanitarian appeal have probably never been better exemplified than in the case of the campaign which the American Committee for Relief in Ireland [AMCOMRI] is now conducting.
The campaign has been endorsed by such distinguished and national figures as President Harding but no section of the US people have been so generous in their response than those of the Hebrew race.
The action of the [Jewish] Climber Social Club in Brooklyn in raising a million dollars among the thousand groups that go to make up the club is typical of the Jewish attitude in the United States.
‘The need of help is imperative,’ said Rabbi Krauskopf of Philadelphia.
How imperative is told in a cable received recently by AMCOMRI to which the signatories include chairmen and laymen of the Church of Ireland, Methodist Trust, Society of Friends and finally the leading Rabbi of that country, Isaac Herzog, MA who spoke for 600 Jews in Dublin alone.
Child Wounded in Sectarian Attack Dies
LENA Kelly (13), who resided with her parents at Kilmood Street, Belfast died in the Mater Infirmorum Hospital yesterday as a result of the wounds received on the night of 19th May in Ballymacarrett.
On that occasion an Anti-Partition meeting had been held in Seaforde Street and the people returning home were the victims of an Orange attack from the Newtownards Road.
A Crossley tender came on the scene and the crowds were fired upon, the little girl Lena being struck with a bullet in the mouth.
The medical and nursing staffs of the Mater were unremitting in their care and attention to the unfortunate little patient but she passed away though the bullet has been extracted.
(Éamon Phoenix editor’s note: Born in Poland, Isaac Hertzog (1888-1959) who served as rabbi in Belfast and then Chief Rabbi of Ireland, was a close friend of de Valera.
In 1920, the Rabbi described Belfast’s sectarian violence as a ‘pogrom’ against Catholic minority.
His son, Chaim Hertzog became President of Israel in 1983.)
On This Day – 5th June 1921
Further Reading on Irish History:
List of other On This Day columns
Other resources: National Library of Ireland Irish News CAIN Archive
On This Day is a daily column in the Irish News looking back either 50 or 100 years. The column was compiled by Dr Éamon Phoenix from the mid 1980s until autumn, 2022. The Foundation is very grateful to the Irish News for giving permission to reproduce Eamon’s columns. Funding gratefully received from Ireland’s Department of Foreign Affairs and the Magill Trust.
* The Foundation has worked hard to recreate Eamon’s distinctive voice through AI. Since this is an emerging technology, occasional imperfections may be audible.