§ Mr. GINNELLasked the Chief Secretary for Ireland (1) whether the arrest and deportation of Mr. J. J. O'Kelly, 1920W without charge or trial, was because he is secretary of the Society for the Preservation of the Irish Language, a purely literary body, which has been publishing an annual volume of Irish literature and. has undertaken a scheme for writing the whole history of Ireland in modern Irish based on the baronial divisions; and whether the material for the annual report of this society, taken from Mr. O'Kelly's house by the military last May, will now be returned to him; and (2) whether the arrest and deportation of Mr. J. J. O'Kelly, without charge or trial, was because he is vice-president of the Gaelic League, and a member of and constant attendant on its four most active sub-committees, namely, the Oireachtas committee, which holds an annual festival extending over a week, and is devoted to the revival of the language, literature, social customs, songs, stories, music, art, pastimes, and industries of Ireland; the finance committee; the publications committee; and the committee charged with education and organisation; and whether all these activities are now held to be illegal?
§ Mr. LYNCHasked the Chief Secretary for Ireland whether, in connection with the arrest of Mr. Eamon Waldron, Gaelic-League organiser, at Ennistymon, the police acting under District Inspector O'Brien seized the personal property of that gentleman, including a wooden trunk, a leather attache case, a number of educational books, together with private and business letters, and also two cheques belonging to the Gaelic League, and representing public contributions to the-language fund; whether a charge of any kind was ever preferred against Eamon Waldron; whether, now that he has been released, the authorities intend to keep his property; and, if so, on what statutory grounds or on what plea of public policy is action of this kind justified?
§ Mr. GINNELLasked the Home Secretary if he will inform the House what the intention of the Government is regarding the places in which and the conditions under which the men deported from Ireland without charge or trial are to be 1921W compelled to reside, and the arrangements for their maintenance and the maintenance of their dependent families in Ireland deprived of their breadwinners?
§ Mr. MACPHERSONThe places in which and the conditions under which these men are compelled to reside in this country are precisely the same as would be applicable in the case of any person removed under Defence of the Realm Regulation 14. The question of the arrangement for their maintenance or the maintenance of their families is not a matter for the War Office.