page_title: Henry Charles Sirr (town major)
section_title: Town Major of Dublin
hierarchical_section_title: Henry Charles Sirr (town major) / Town Major of Dublin
caption_attribution_description: Polski: Aresztowanie Lorda Edwarda FitzGeralda English: The Arrest of Lord Edward Fitzgerald
context_page_description: Henry Charles Sirr was an Irish soldier, police officer, wine merchant and collector.
context_section_description: In 1796 he was appointed acting Town Major of Dublin, confirmed in it in 1798. He was responsible for the arrest of Irish revolutionaries Lord Edward FitzGerald, Thomas Russell and Robert Emmet.
  In 1802 he was mulcted £150 damages, and costs, for the assault and false imprisonment of John Hevey. His lawyer in this case referred to his "very great exertions and laudable efforts" to crush the Irish Rebellion of 1798. The opposing lawyer, John Philpot Curran, told a long tale of a grudge held by Sirr against Mr Hevey, the latter a prosperous businessman and a Yeoman volunteer against the Rebellion, who had happened to be in court during a treason case brought by Sirr. Hevey had recognised the witness for the prosecution, described him in court "a man of infamous character", and convinced the jury that no credit was due to the witness. The treason case collapsed. Sirr and his colleague had then subjected Hevey to wrongful arrest, imprisonment incommunicado, extortion of goods and money, and condemnation to hanging. Curran implied that these techniques were typical of the methods used by Sirr and by others to suppress the Rebellion.
caption: Sirr shooting, and arresting, FitzGerald.
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