sentences:  He fought in the Easter Rising in 1916, and was imprisoned in England.On 3 April 1918, Milroy contested a by-election for Sinn Féin in Tyrone East unsuccessfully.In the 1918 United Kingdom general election he stood in Tyrone North-East, but an electoral pact brokered by Cardinal Michael Logue allocated the seat to the Irish Parliamentary Party and it was not contested by Sinn Féin.