HC Deb 18 February 1884 vol 284 cc1186-7
MR. SMALL

asked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland For what reasons a number of prisoners undergoing sentences of penal servitude, including several of the Crossmaglen prisoners, have recently been removed from Irish to English prisons?

MR. TREVELYAN

Sir, in consequence of the abolition of Spike Island as a prison, and the concentration of a large number of prisoners in Dublin, arrangements were made for the temporary removal of some of those prisoners to English prisons, and amongst others transferred were the convicts referred to by the hon. Member.