1929 Newspaper - Derry Journal 29 April 1929 - mentions Una Cassidy, Austin Stack and Louis Cassidy. DEATH OF AUSTIN STACK. Irish Republican Leader’s Career. The German Submarine Landing. The death took place on Saturday, in a private nursing home in Dublin, of Mr. Austin Stack, who had undergone a serious operation. He resided at Seabank, North Strand, Dublin, and was a son of the late William Moore Stack, of the Fenians in county Kerry, and served many terms of imprisonment. One of the earliest members of the Irish Volunteers, the late Mr. Stack became Commandant in the Tralee area, and to him was assigned the duty of making arrangements for the landing of arms from the German submarine – a plan that was so dramatically rendered abortive by the arrest of Sir Roger Casement on the Friday previous to the Rising of Easter Week. After the discovery and Casement’s arrest, he and a number of others were held prisoners in Tralee, thus being prevented from taking part in the Rebellion. He was court-martialled, and sentenced to death, but the sentence was afterwards commuted to penal servitude for life. With upwards of a hundred others, including Mr. de Valera and other leaders, he was incarcerated in various convict prisons in England, until released in July, 1917. In October 1917, he was elected one of the honorary secretaries to the reorganised Sinn Fein, which position he held ever since. In the Dail Eireann election of December 1918, Mr. Stack headed the poll in Kerry, and became Minister for Home Affairs in the First and Second Dail Eireann. He was one of the members of the Cabinet who opposed the Treaty. He was re-elected at every contest up till 1927 when he declined to go forward as a candidate. The late Mr. Stack was a leader of a big hunger strike in Belfast Jail in 1920, and it was well-known that the hardships he suffered on that occasion seriously affected his health. Later he took an active part in the civil war, being captured in the course of operations near Slievenamon, which won the All-Ireland Championship on three successive occasions. Indeed, it was under his leadership that the team reached the pinnacle of fame. In private life he had a most winning personality, and from his law-student days was much esteemed in his profession of solicitor. Some four years ago he married Mrs Gordon, who was a sister of the late Dr. Louis Cassidy, Master of the Coombe Hospital, Dublin, whose death on the hunting field a few months ago will be remembered.
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