... Oliver Cromwells of the twentieth century!” Suffragettes overcame insults, manhandling, repeated imprisonment under the Cat and Mouse Act, forcible feeding on hunger strike. They faced Himalayas of prejudice. In 1913 Sir Almroth Wright (1861-1947), the eminent ...

... seven times for Sinn Fein activities. In November 1917, after a three days’ hunger strike, he was released under the Cat-and-Mouse ’’ Act. In 1918 he was elected Sinn Fein M.P. for Cork, but went to Dublin instead of Westminster, and attended the first ...

... on the administration of the Cat-and-Mouse Act (a phrase which was used even by the Home Secretary himself). Mr. M'Kenna, in a clever speech which impressed although it did not convince the House, tried to show that the Act was proving successful. His ...