Sunday 29 November 2015

Reading Jail - Prison Record 1916

PRISON RECORD - READING PRISON
11 July 1916 - 24 December 1916

Langley was arrested on Monday May 8th 1916 at 4.30am.  The local RIC surrounded his house on Cloonthoo Road Tuam and brought both his mother and Langley to the barracks for questioning.  Margaret Langley was released, Liam was then transferred to Galway prison.  On Friday 12 May he was moved to Richmond Barracks, Dublin.  On June 1st he was marched up tehe quay in Dublin with fellow prisoners and loaded on cattle boats which were bound for England.  On June 2nd he arrived in Wakefield Prison, from there he was moved to Frongoch, North Wales.  On 11 July Liam Langley was moved to Reading Prison where he was interned under the Defence of the Realm Act |(DORA).  On Christmas Eve 1916 he was released from Reading.