Freeman's Journal
In fact Francis Higgins is mentioned in the Secret Service Money Book as having betrayed Lord Edward FitzGerald.On the nationalist side some preferred The Nation founded by Thomas Davis while others, including radical supporters of Parnell, read the United Irishman.While The Journal in September 1891[6] eventually went with the majority in opposing Parnell, a minority moved to read the Daily Irish Independent.Just prior to the outbreak of the Irish Civil War in March 1922, the Freeman's Journal printing machinery was destroyed by Anti-Treaty IRA men under Rory O'Connor for its support of the Anglo-Irish Treaty.After its destruction, the newspaper refurbished buildings at 6-8 Townsend Street incorporating the former Dublin Coffee Palace however these were ultimately ransacked by anti-treaty forces in March 1922.