One of the few battles outside Dublin during Easter Week was Enniscorthy, Co
Wexford which was seized by the Rebels. The Athenaeum theatre was made the
Republicans’ headquarters, over which they flew the green, white and orange
tricolour. All the public houses in the town were closed down and as Father
Patrick Murphy, a priest who publicly blessed the rebels, recalled,
“During the four days of
Republican rule, not a single person was under the influence of drink”.
'There was an order given that no publicans were to supply
anyone with drink. That evening two men were caught in Loftus Porter's
public house in Templeshannon. Both of them were from Shannon .
Mike Murphy (Toby) and Bernard Neill were arrested and the keys of the
public house taken from the owner. His shop was locked up and the keys brought
to headquarters'.
Witness Statement of Thomas Doyle, Weafer Street, Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford.
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