Timeline of Local and National Events 1919

The Monaghan Asylum strike, which involved 96 nurses and attendants, is resolved following the intervention of Fr McNamee.

Fermanagh Times publishes a long letter from Hugh de Fellenberg Montgomery (Blessingbourne) denouncing Southern Unionist opposition to partition.

Fermanagh Times report speculates on the impact of using PR in the forthcoming local elections, explaining its purpose is to ensure that the voice of ‘important minorities’ may be heard.

William Coote, Unionist MP for South Tyrone, claims in the House of Commons that the Unionist-controlled Tyrone County Council has employed more Catholics than the total of all Protestants employed by Nationalist-controlled Councils across the rest of Ireland.

A crisis meeting of the Tyrone and Fermanagh Asylum Committee is held to deal with an impending strike. Male attendants receive an annual salary increase of £5 to £30, while females receive an increase of £5 to £27.

The Ulster Workers’ Trade Union establishes a branch in Fermanagh with its headquarters in Enniskillen. It describes itself as an openly Protestant and Unionist grouping.

A monster AOH demonstration is held in Aughnacloy with the purpose of strengthening the movement across Tyrone, Fermanagh, Armagh and Monaghan.

The RIC raid an illegal poteen production facility near Plumbridge.

Belfast Newsletter reports the various parties in Tyrone had prepared several thousand objections to the county’s voting register.

Homes of prominent Sinn Féiners in Tyrone and Fermanagh and the offices of the Ulster Herald are searched in coordinated raids.

A meeting of Enniskillen Rural District Council agrees to adopt the regulations under the Profiteering Act, as it was claimed that local farmers were being forced to pay exorbitant sums for most essential goods and services in the town.