Sean Milroy Photograph by International Film Service, New York - caption on back: ''SINN FEINER WHO ESCAPED FROM JAIL - John Milroy one of the leaders of the Sinn Fein movement in Dublin who...
Sean Milroy Photograph by International Film Service, New York - caption on back: ''SINN FEINER WHO ESCAPED FROM JAIL - John Milroy one of the leaders of the Sinn Fein movement in Dublin who recently escaped from jail where he had been confined with a number of others of the movement.'' Date: 24 Feb 1919. Sean Milroy broke out from Lincoln Jail on February 3rd, 1919, along with Eamon de Valera and Sean McGarry, in an escape organised personally by Michael Collins.