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  • WS Ref #: 1455 , Witness: James O'Sullivan, Captain IRA, Cork, 1921

    • ... was then employed as Sorting Clerk and Telegraphist in Bantry Post Office, where I served until January ... STATEMENT BY JAMES O'SULLIVAN, Rock Villas, Bantry, Co. Cork. I was born at Glengariff Road, Bantry on June 20th l900 and was educated at Bantry National School. In August, 1914, I entered the Postal ...

    • ... Magistrate, to communicate with us in the post office in the event of any unusual happenings ... . With the co-operation of the other I.R.A. men in the post office Patrick J. Lynch and Patrick J ... 8. town. I immediately mobilised the company (Bantry> and Within about thirty minutes had up ...

    • ... the truce I was still employed in the post office, Bantry. I acted as Camp Adjutant of a training camp which ... . It occupied the best attentions of the company's (Bantry) officers throughout the whole period ... . It is quite probable that this series of activities of the Bantry Company constitute a record ...

    • ... 10. bag was now handed in to the post office to await the next despatch. I immediately made ... of the post office, and when the opportunity arose I slipped the bag to them. They removed the bag ... , 1920, the military force billeted at West Park, Bantry, were receiving messages in a despatch bag ...

    • ... authorities Several messages now passed through Bantry Post Office each day. Copies of all messages were ... 6. to the Naval forces at Bantry. Nearly every member of the unit was engaged on these activities ... . O'Brien and Jack Sullivan. During 1919 the R.I.C. at Bantry telegraphed the R.I.C. at Drimoleague each ...

    • ... , having regard to the fact that the Auxiliaries had been at the post office when the van was driven off ... to the post office, the van was searched by Lieut. Boardman British Military Intelligence Officer who ... , "Blast you, you have taken the wrong bags. On one occasion a loaded mail van stood outside the post ...

    • ... 12. Curfew patrols, which were operating in Bantry town over a Prolonged period, were often foiled of a capture due to an arrangement by which I.R.A. men in the town were able to utilise post office ... ,. and it is an everlasting credit to the unit (Bantry) to record that the attendance was largest when ...

    • ... was appointed Adjutant of the Bantry Company as Michael Harrington was appointed to a post ... , several members of the unit (Bantry) took part in a raid for explosives at the barytes mines ... Cork County. was divided into three. brigades. Bantry Battalion now became a unit of a new brigade ...

    • ... ROINN COSANTA. BUREAU OF MILITARY HISTORY, 1919-21 STATEMENT BY WITNESS. DOCUMENT NO. W.S. 1455 Witness James O'Sullivan Rock Villas, Bantry, Co. Cork. Identity O/C, Bantry Company, Bantry Battalion, Cork III Brigade, I.R.A. Subject. Activities of Bantry Company, Bantry Battalion Cork III Brigade ...

    • ... 15. office authorities to serve in Rathdrum, Co. Wicklow. The officers of Bantry Company during my period of service were: 1917 August, 1919: 0/C Ralph Keyes 1st Lt. Robt. Lynch 2nd Lt. Michael Crowley Adjt. Michael Harrington (to Battn. Staff Aug. 1919) Q/M Jack O'Mahoney (left area Aug. 1919 ...

    • ... organised activities took place during the summer of 1917, when the members of the Bantry Company seized ... elected to the Dáil. There was a big increase in the strength of Bantry Company in the spring ... of the Volunteers throughout the area took place at this stage and that Bantry area was organised ...

    • ... 4. O'Mahoney had left the district. The officers of Bantry Company now were: 0/C Ralph Keyes 1st Lt ... major activity undertaken by the members of Bantry unit was carried out on November 17th 1919, when ... (Ralph Keyes) raided a British Naval M.L. boat, No. 171, which was tied up at Bantry Pier near ...

    • ... . Several members of Bantry Company carried out a raid on the goods store at Bantry Railway Station ... a raid on the steamboat plying between Bantry and Bere Island "Princess Bean" in which we secured ... to Bantry. He informed me that he had passed the convoy between Ballylickey and Snare Bridge about ...

    • ... on Roycroft's Stores, Main St., Bantry, in which we obtained three hundred cartridges, a large supply of black powder and two cartridge filling machines. Bantry Company was a very active unit ...

    • ... received from Brigade H.Q. to burn Vickery's Hotel, Bantry. This action was taken on the strength ... of the operation. All streets leading into the area were held by armed sections drawn from Bantry Company. ...

    • ... the town (Bantry) and the outlying sections and so on to the adjoining areas for the expeditious ...

  • WS Ref #: 595 , Witness: William Norris, Lieutenant IV and IRA, Cork, 1915 - 1920; Member 3 Brigade Flying Column, 1921

    • ... in the company area from people who were hostile to us. There was trouble over a post office there. The post ... to, for several nights. The owner of the post office was moved from one place to another as ... became vice-commandant of the Bantry battalion. At the end of 1919 there was a raid for arms ...

    • ... battalion was Bantry battalion and Ted Sullivan was 0/C. In November 1919 I was detailed to go ... day in a dyke of water. On the following morning I went into Bantry to attack the R.I.C. and Tans who had arrived there then. We did not attack them; we left Bantry that evening and went to Kealkil. We ...

    • ... STATEMENT OF MR. WILLIAM NORRIS Oldfield House, Kilmashogue, Rathfarnham. (Caheragh Coy. 5th (Bantry) Bn. Cork III Bde.) I joined the Volunteers in October 1915. On November Day, I marched ... Council meetings in Bantry and different places and did all the other routine work. At the time ...

    • ... a party of us under Commandant Tom Ward. Our intention was to go to Bantry to attack Bantry. We were met ...

    • ... of the following morning the post-boy came to the house delivering the mail. He was permitted to go ...

  • WS Ref #: 1478 , Witness: Ted O'Sullivan, OC Cork 3 Brigade IRA, 1921

    • ... accordingly and returned through the local post office. No information of any military value ... inter-vened and we were forced to abandon our attempt to capture the post. I should have mentioned ... at daylight. This enemy post was vacated next day. When instructions were received from G.H.Q. at Easter 1929 ...

    • ... 17. The members of the Bantry Company were practically on continuous service at this period. They were engaged nightly in raids of one kind or another on enemy stores passing through Bantry to Bere Island military post. Amongst the military goods seized at this time was a large consignment of boots ...

    • ... at the Eccles Hotel, Glengarriff, were to evacuate the post next day. They were to travel by train from Bantry ... withdrew to Bantry area, but here information was received that the British were preparing to land ... in Bantry Bay. As a. result, the column moved on to Coomhola. and from there to Gougane Bar in Cork 1 ...

    • ... 29. an attack had been arranged on the local R.I.C. post. I moved into Bantry, Castletownbere and Schull areas to see what progress was; being made on the formation of battalion columns, etc:. On my ... and Bantry Battalions on a tour of inspection the other brigade officers' being similarly engaged ...

    • ... to report to the R.I.C. barracks at fixed intervals. A meeting of Bantry Battalion Council was held ... of capturing Drimoleague R.I.C. Post and it was decided to attack this post on the following night (11th ...

    • ... ROINN COSANTA. BUREAU OF MILITARY HISTORY, 1913-21 STATEMENT BY WITNESS. DOCUMENT NO. W.S. 1478. Witness Ted. O'Sullivan, Glen House, South Douglas Road, Cork. Identity. Vice O/C, Cork III Brigade, I.R.A. Acting O/C, Cork III Brigade, I.R.A. Subject. Activities of Bantry Company, Bantry Battalion ...

    • ... 16. Bantry, of which I was in charge, took up ambush positions for a whole week near Glengarriff ... -Bantry road about from G1enarriff. They were waiting for a patrol of R.I.C. which normally operated ... in the direction of Bantry. As we were expecting some others td follow, we allowed him to proceed. Although ...

    • ... Party, led by Win. O'Brien, M.P. The 0/C. of the Bantry Company of Irish Volunteers at this time ... , and then was no question of party politics. The Bantry Company, under Michael O'Donovan, 0/C., held a big public parade ... following this parade I organised a section in my home area Baurgorm which was attac4ed to Bantry ...

    • ... on the station, which was over 20 miles from Bantry. On 31st May all men on the run in the area to the number of 12/15 were mobilised in the vicinity of Bantry We then proceeded to Mizen Head about 3 ... in Bantry Battalion area. After this raid the R.I.C. evacuated Goleen barracks next day. Amongst those ...

    • ... for dumping. Early in December 1918, the members of the Bantry Company to the number of about 40 mobilised on two occasions. to ambush a military patrol at Sadler's Cross on the Bantry- Durrus road. We were ... . at this time, but I cannot recollect the names of the other officers. Bantry Battalion now became ...

    • ... . My duties as adjutant of Bantry Battalion involved travelling considerable distances each week ... ), Glengarriff (11), Coomhola. (12), Kealkil (10), DroumsuJaivan (8), Durrus (6), Caheragh (6) and Bantry (5). I ... House,, Bantry, to search for two rifles and a shotgun which were reported by our Intelligence section ...

    • ... 30. Tom Ward. He left me to arrange some sniping activities in Bantry. I returned to Drirnoleague ... 'Driscoll (0/C. Drimoleague Coy.), Michael Harrington (adjt. Bantry Battalion), Sonny Sullivan (Bantry Coy.), Tom Collins (Inchingeragh Coy.) and Con Keane (0/C. Inchingeragh Company) I moved ...

    • ... shotguns which were the only type of arms available.- throughout the area. Bantry company had about 12 ... 1916. Units were now operating in Bantry, Glengarriff, Coomhola, Kealkil, Durrus, Kilcrohane, Caheragh and Droumsullivan. These units were now organised into Bantry Battalion, which became 14th ...

    • ... :If. Before. i was appointed Battalion Adjutant, Bantry Battalion, I joined the I.R.B. Iwas sworn ... early 1918,, he came home to Bantry on ten days’ leave. I arranged with him to send ariyiar.material ... of Bantry Company disarmed an R.I.C. patrol in the vicinity of the town and ...

    • ... . At this meeting I was appointed 0/C. Bantry Battalion. The other officers were:- Sean I1ehane (Vice 0/c.), Sean ... approached by Mossy Donegan, an officer of Bantry unit, and Michael O'Callaghan (Battn. Q.M. regarding the possibility of carrying out a raid on one of the British M.L. boats which were based on Bantry. We ...

    • ... reached their position round a corner near the post office about 30 yards from the barrack ...

    • ... STATEMENT BY TED O'SULLIVAN, Glen House, South Douglas Road, Cork. I was born in Bantry on 26th July 1899. My parents were. farmers. I was educated at Gurtycloon National School where, on completion ... the Irish Volunteers in Bantry in 1914. The strength of the unit was about 120. The pioneers ...

    • ... members of Bantry Company. As I was now more or less on full-time service, the work of the farm ... ). Amongst those who attended this camp were:- Bantry Battalion Mossy Donegan, Ralph Keyes, Sean Lehane ...

    • ... 10. Eventually, on the night of 17th November 1919, the operation was carried out by about ten men of Bantry Company under Moss Donegan, Michael O'Callaghan, Ralph Keyes and Sean Cotter4 The boat ... -boat was made available by Tom Reidy (Battalion I.0.) at Bantry and, with Sean Lehane, I travelled ...

    • ... ), Ted O'Sullivan (0/C. Bantry Battalion), Frank Huxley (0/C. Laragh Company) and Michael McCarthy ... to the number of 60 were drawn from Durrus, Caheragh and Bantry companies. The attacking party was divided ...

    • ... a side road beside Snave Bridge leading to Coomhola Instead of continuing on to Bantry, the military ... , who accompanied him with the mine, were taken prisoners and removed to Bantry, while all sections ...

    • ... as I was engaged, in making arrangements for a. training campS in Bantry battalion area. at Kealkil. The camp at Kealkil was attended by the officers of all companies in Bantry Battalion ...

    • ... 32. (Q.M. Bantry Battalion), Jack Corkerry (Ballinadee) and Tim O'Donoghue (Kilmeen). I cannot recollect the name of the fourth man. The column men, led by local scouts, moved into Drimo- league ... Bridge where we were to take up positions to hold the Bantry-Drimoleague road against the possible ...

    • ... 34• In the meantime, I had proceeded to Bantry on organftation work and was operating there when I received news of the fight at Crossbarry. This was conveyed to me in a dispatch from Liam Deasy ... at Crossbarry. I immediately contacted Wm. O'Sullivan, a member of the Bantry Company who had experience ...

    • ... , Bantry and 1unmanway. At Furious Pier, five enemy personnel were killed, while at Gastletownbere enemy casualties were 3 killed, 2 wounded. At Skibbereen and Bantry, enemy posts were sniped, while ...

    • ... was now appointed Brigade Vice 0/C. and was replaced as 0/C. Bantry Battalion by Moss Donegan, I ...

    • ... 33. During the first week in March 1921, I travelled to Castletowubere to select 12 replacements for men who were to be demobbed from the column. I travelled in a small boat across Bantry Bay to Ardrigole. over the road now known as the Healy Pass to Lauragh in Kerry and then on to Eyeries. Here I ...

    • ... , 1921. A couple of days prior to the visit to Dunmanway, I attended a meetIng of Bantry Battalion ...

    • ... moving into thesebected positions and approaching the enemy post, the members of all sections were moving ...

  • WS Ref #: 1422 , Witness: Thomas Reidy, Member IV, Cork, 1914 - 1917; Intelligence Officer, Cork 5 Brigade, 1921

    • ... in the Post Office, could Nor be broken by the code key in use, I then worked out the new code from ... ., Bantry, to indicate that two R.I.C. men had been shot outside Listowel. This proved that my solution of the code had been correct. A strong force of military was landed at Bantry on 17th May 1920 ...

    • ... . At the time I had an arrangement with the members of the staff at Bantry Post Office (Jim O'Sullivan ... messages being transmitted through the Post Office were sent in code. The Brigade I.O. (Sean Buckley ... military arrived in Bantry early in 1920. They were billeted in a store owned by my employers (Messrs ...

    • ... was in charge of all R.I.C. forces in Bantry. I remember on one occasion decoding a message received from my Post Office agents (Jim O'Sullivan and Patk. J. Lynch) in which the D.I. was instructed ... of the members of this force stationed in my battalion area. With the co-operation of my men in the Post Office ...

    • ... ROINN COSANTA. BUREAU OF MILITARY HISTORY, 1913-21. STATEMENT BY WITNESS. DOCUMENT NO. W.S. 1422. Witness Thomas Reidy, Newtown, Bantry, Co. Cork Identity. Battalion Intelligence Officer, Bantry ... . Activities of Skibbereen Company, Irish Volunteers, 1914-1916, and Bantry Battalion, Irish Volunteers ...

    • ... a month or so moving around the area in an organising capacity, after which I came to Bantry where I ... as a Volunteer organiser. Immediately after coming to Bantry, I joined the I.R.B. I was sworn in by Ted O'Sullivan who, at the time, was O/C. Bantry Battalion, Irish Volunteers. I was then appointed ...

    • ... ); Drimoleague (3rd); this was a new battalion Bantry (4th); Castletownbere (5th). This arrangement did ... The officers of the Bantry Battalion were: 1918 July 1920 O/C Ted O'Sullivan (to brigade. as v/C. July ... . Bantry Battalion Cork III Brigade. The strength of the battalion was about 600. Signed: Thomas ...

    • ... of the year. In January 1919, Cork Brigade was divided into three brigades. Bantry Battalion now ... the end of the year (17th November 1919) the members of Bantry Company in co-operation with some ...

    • ... STATENENT BY THOMAS REIDY Newtown. Bantry, Co. Cork. I was born at Ballydonoghue, Listowel, Co. Kerry, on 3rd March 1888. My parents were farmers. I was educated at Liselton National School until I reached the age of 16 years when I went to serve my time to the hardware business in Matthew ...

  • WS Ref #: 1493 , Witness: Sean Cotter, Officer IRA, Cork, 1921

    • ... STATEMENTBY SEÁN COTTER, Junction House, Carrigrohane, Co. Cork. I was born in Bantry on 3rd November, 1899. I was educated at Bantry National School until I reached the age of 16 when I went to work in the office of Messrs. G.W. Biggs Ltd., Bantry. I joined Bantry Company, Irish Volunteers, before ...

    • ... to Comhola. Glengariff R.I.C. post was evacuated next day. On 25th August, 1920, following the Glengariff ... of R.I.C. in Bantry. One R.I.C. man Constable Hough was killed. The I.R.A. party suffered ... at fairly regular intervals, between Bantry-Castletownbere or Kenmare. The convoy usually consisted of two ...

    • ... ROINN COSANTA. BUREAU OF MILITARY HISTORY, 1913-21. STATEMENT BY WITNESS. DOCUMENT NO. W.S. 1493. Witness Sean Cotter, Junction House, Carrigrohane, Co. Cork. Identity. Adjutant, Bantry Battalion, Cork III Brigade, I.R.A. Subject. Cork Activities of Bantry Battalion, Cork III Brigade, I.R.A. 1916 ...

    • ... of the fence across the road from the enemy post. The section at the rear were under cover of walls ... sections engaged on road blocks on all roads leading to Durrus from Bantry and Skibbereen ...

    • ... . The petrol was then poured into the hole in the roof of the enemy post and set on fire. While ... in Bantry we were forced to call off the engagement. Shortly after we had withdrawn the garrison ...

    • ... was usually carried on in the Town Hall. I was at this time a Sub-Section Commander in Bantry Company ... Street, Bantry. Shafts were fashioned for these pikeheads. Towards the end of 1917 Bantry area was organised on a battalion basis. The Companies in the area surrounding Bantry were organised ...

    • ... taken in these raids in Bantry Company area. Several members of the unit took part in these operations ... disappeared and the strength of the Company (Bantry) returned to normal about 70 to 80. The first ... R.I.C. men were disarmed at Donemark Bridge about one mile from Bantry on Glengariff Road. About nine ...

    • ... Battalion) was appointed 0/C, and Ted O'Sullivan (O/C., Bantry Battalion) Vice O/C. The new Quartermaster ... transferred to the Brigade Staff, the officers of Bantry Battalion Staff were O/C. Maurice Doegan, Vice 0/C. Seán Lehane, Adjutant Seán Cotter (witness), Quartermaster Michael O'Callaghan. The Bantry ...

    • ... of Bantry. I ascertained from this family that regular supplies of arms were being sent to Dublin from ... to examine the feasibility of this suggestion. When I returned to Bantry I reported to Brigade ... , Bantry Battalion, I left Cork for London on the night on which Terry McSwiney's funeral arrived ...

    • ... and not to this firm. Incidentally, the receipt of the consignment would be checked at Bantry Railway Station ... of Bantry for the purpose of inspecting Donemark Company-two miles east of the town. I was accompanied by 'Moss' Donegan (Battalion 0/C), Ralph Keyes (0/C., Bantry Company) and Con Sullivan. Within ...

    • ... operation of importance in the area was the raid on a British M.L. boat at Bantry on Sunday, 17th November, 1919. Plans for this raid were made at the home of Company 0/C. Bantry (Ralph Keyes) after ... which plied between Bantry Bere Island and Castletownbere which was lying next to the Pier ...

    • ... 10. I was arrested at Scart, Bantry, by a force of military and R.I.C. two days after the attack ... and travelled by train to Durrus Road Station about six miles from Bantry where we were taken from the train ... . were awaiting our arrival at Bantry to re-arrest us. As we were not feeling too strong after ...

    • ... of Bantry Circle. Normal training continued throughout the area during 1919. In addition, Volunteers ... in England. Others from Bantry who attended, were Ralp Keyes, Seán Lehane, Maurice Donegan, Michael ...

    • ... , a party consisting of "Moss" Donegan, Tom Ward, Con Sullivan and Seán Cotter (witness) left Bantry ...

    • ... by Florence O'Sullivan. About 1 p.m. I crossed to Bantry side of Snave Bridge with Ralph Keyes and "Moss ...

  • WS Ref #: 1578 , Witness: John J O'Sullivan, Officer IRA, Cork, 1921

    • ... was obtained. After censoring, all mails .were returned to the nearest post office marked "Censored by I.R.A." It was now about mid-July 1920, and the main Bantry-Glengarriff road had been under ... an ambush position at Snave, about 5 miles from Bantry on this road. Our column of men on the run were ...

    • ... for the destruction of the Income Tax offices in Bantry. The office was situated on the square directly opposite the R.I.C. Barracks. Accompanied by Ned Cotter and Paddy Connolly, I approached the office from ... over to the Battalion 0/C. (Ted O'Sullivan) next morning. The income tax office and contents were ...

    • ... 19. to intercept enemy reinforcements from Bantry. This Section was about 20 strong and all armed ... activities in Bantry area in the period to Nay 1921, were the blocking of roads, demolition ... sniped at every available opportunity. A few shots fired at a post by our snipers around midnight often ...

    • ... intervened when we were forced to abandon our attempt to capture the post. The barracks was now ablaze, but as it was necessary that many of our attacking party should be back in time for work in Bantry, we ... one operating north of Bantry and the other to the south. As a large force of military about 2000 ...

    • ... Battalion area. Plans were now made to attack Durrus R.I.C. post in Bantry area. The rif1e captured ... and were drawn from Bantry, Caheragh and Durrus units. The Battalion 0/C. (Ted O'Sullivan ...

    • ... 21. the party moved to the vicinity of Bantry that night. Next day we took up positions covering ... R.I.C. post, or an an enemy patrol there, on 28th May 1921, two members of Kealkil Company (Bill ... , on the way from Bantry to Glengarriff, were sniped at Ballylickey by some members of the column who ...

    • ... ROINN COSANTA. BUREAU OF MILITARY HISTORY, 1913-21, STATEMENT BY WITNESS, DOCUMENT NO. W.S. 1578 Witness John J. O'Sullivan, Ballylickey, Bantry, Co. Cork. Identity. O/C, Communications, Bantry Battalion, Cork III Brigde, I.R.A. Subject. Activities Of Bantry Battalion, Cork III Brigade, I.R.A ...

    • ... of the R.I.C. post a small section taking up a similar position at the rear. Our section, walking ... of the roof, but did not breach the wall of the enemy post. Following the explosion, fire was opened ... as there was no prospect of capturing the post. In connection with this operation, I would like to record ...

    • ... 13. proposed to ambush a lorry of military which travelled from Bantry to Castletownbere each week. The date fixed for the operation was 2+th August 1920. I was to contact John Wrynne (Coomhola ... contact with a patrol of R.I.C. In any event, we intended to snipe the enemy post ...

    • ... nightly. A meeting of Bantry Battalion Council was held at Colomane Wood on 10th February 1921. All ... at the meeting. It was decided to attack this post next night. The Column 0/C. (Torn Barry ...

    • ... 10. Early in June 1920, I joined the men on the run operating north of Bantry for a week during which we lay in ambush near Glengarriff. We took up positions behind the roadside fence on the Bantry ... R.I.C. man passed through, about 11 a.m., in the direction of Bantry. He was allowed to proceed ...

    • ... 5. Early in 1919 I took part in a raid on Newtown House, Bantry, in which we expected to get two ... , the representatives from Bantry Battalion were:- Ted O'Sullivan, "Mossy" Donegan, Ralph Keyes, Sean Lehane ... about mid-August 1919, some changes took place in the staff of Bantry Battalion. The Battalion ...

    • ... STATEMENT BY JOHN J. O'SULLIVAN Ballylickey. Bantry, Co. Cork. I was born in Bantry in 1891. My ... of age when I went to serve my time as a mason and plasterer with my father. I joined Bantry Company ... throughout the country. In Bantry, the Volunteer followers of John Redmond joined the new organisation ...

    • ... members of the Bantry unit cycled to Kealkil where we met some men from Ballingeary Company. After waiting in Kealkil district all day, we cycled back home to Bantry in the evening as we did not receive ... Bantry, who travelled to Kealkil on Easter Sunday 1916, were: Michael Murray, Mark Sullivan, Ralph ...

    • ... Keyes (0/C. Bantry Company) with three or four men disarmed an R.I.C. patrol in the neighbourhood ... , about 40 members of Bantry Coy. mobilised on two occasions to ambush a military patrol at Sadler's Cross on the Bantry-Durrus road. The enemy patrol did not put in an appearance. There was no contest ...

    • ... engagement at Kilmichael on 28th November 1920, the representatives of Bantry Battalion on the column were ... ), 0/C. Bantry (Ralph Keyes) and Con Sullivan were arrested in the vicinity of Bantry on 28th ... , and the representatives from Bantry Battalion returned to their home area. They moved around the area visiting ...

    • ... 22. As far as I can recollect, the officers of Bantry Battalion, Cork III Brigade, between 1918 and the Truce on 11th July 1921, were: March 1918 O/C. Dan O'Mahoney V.O/C. Michael Murray Adjt. Ted ... Harrington Q.M. John J. O'Sullivan I.O. Tom Ridy My Rank at the Truce: Q.M. Bantry Barralion, Cork ...

    • ... to their home areas, while the men on the run withdrew to the vicinity of Bantry where they went into billets I ... O'Sullivan (late 0/C. Bantry Battalion); Adjutant Liam Deasy; Q.M. Dick Barrett. The officers of the Bantry ...

    • ... was elected 0/C. Bantry Company and his appointment led to increased activity. Within a short time ... throughout 1917 and early 1918. Units were now operating in Bantry, Coomhola, Kealkil, Glengariff ...

    • ... 15. outskirts of Bantry. One R.I.C. man (Constable Hough) was killed. There were no I.R.A. casualties. During September and October 1920, I was moving around the area inspecting the various units ... of the Skibbereen and Bantry battalions was held at Kealkil. Tom Barry (0/C. Brigade Column) was in charge ...

    • ... with the garrison of the R.I.C. post which we hoped would venture out when the shooting started ...

  • WS Ref #: 118 , Witness: Patrick C O'Mahoney, Captain IV, Dungarvan, 1916; Member IRB, 1914 - 1916

    • ... of the Supreme Council. From 1910 I was attached to the Survey Staff of the Post Office, and my duties involved ... with the work of organization in whatever district I may happen to be in, In May 1910, I was in Bantry ... to contact anybody. From Bantry I went to Charleville and made contact there with Jack O'Brien ...

    • ... taking part in a national organisation. I. said it was known to me that officials of the Post Office ... office to the Secretary of the Post Office in Ireland, Egerton, and was substantially as follows ... Post Office to Sheffield P.O. ...

    • ... James J. Walsh, from Cork Post Office to Bradford P.O. - Hawe, from Kilkenny Post Office to Northampton P.O. P.C. O’Mahony, to Bradford P.O.” I said I was not going to Bradford. Norwood directed my attention to the last portion of the file. I did. so and saw recommendations from Robertson ...

    • ... Officers were elected and held office up toeaster, 1916:- O.C. P.C. O'Mahony. Vice 0.C. Pax Whelan. Adjutant, George Lennon. In December, 1915, we had six rifles. These were transferred ... Thursday. I then went to see Seán McDermott at "Irish Freedom" office in D'Olier Street, and told him ...

    • ... fresh instructions were issued. No message came on Raster Monday. That night I went to the office ... news • I romaine in the office • A code message came through for: D.I O'Keeffe from the County ...

  • WS Ref #: 1698 , Witness: Liam Roche (de Roiste), Member Sinn Fein, 1913 - 1921; Member Dail Eireann, 1918

    • ... now? June 21st: (In Bantry): As I went to teach a class in the Convent here, I heard rumours of Griffith having been elected in Cavan. 721 of a majority was mentioned. Post Office clerks told me ...

    • ... , backed by iron, stand. Behind the Post Office, portion of Henry St. is in ruins. Many houses have been ... . All the buildings in the line of fire from there to the Post Office were hit and most of them ... were fighting in the Pest Office that only one man was killed there. Opinion also puts number ...

    • ... , patent rights, trade with any country outside Ireland navigation, lighthouses, post office savings banks ... was to have boon exorcised over the Education Boards, the Post Office (which was not paying its way ...

    • ... into the British a army. A Post Office clerk in Waterford was arrested on Saturday on a charge ... office. The other followed.. Number one was tested for his sight, which was found to be bad. The two ...

    • ... , a Cork city man. He was working in the Post Office in Dublin before Easter Week, and joined ... . George himself has gone to the War Office. ...

    • ... 236. 1915. Terence MacSwiney was with me on train to Bantry yesterday We had a chat with some men ... when Redmond got control of the Volunteers, as Bantry was a stronghold of O'Brien's. They may get going ... ) propaganda is a secret German propaganda Terence MacSwiney was here (in Bantry) with me again tonight ...

    • ... the Technical Instruction Committee). In Cork today, a Post Office Clerk, a telegraphist, crossed ...

    • ... . Saturday morning last, in common with many others, I received by post a printed circular, addressed ... on it and sending it to the central recruiting office. Wimborne wants 50,000 Irishmen to join before the end ...

    • ... that situation. All letters going through the Post Office are now liable to be opened, This is being done ...

    • ... possession of the General Post Office; possibly of the Bank of Ireland, and are attacking Dublin Castle ...

    • ... the burnt-out General Post Office. Police and military are now "rounding up" all "Sinn and Volunteers ...

    • ... ). His body has been found in Moore Lane, near the General Post Office. Search is being made for three ...

    • ... . "You know", said he, hard to prevent J.J. from making speeches. When the Post Office was blazing ...

    • ... . (In Drimoleague. Came here from Bantry this morning). At the railway station, as I was leaving Bantry ...

    • ... 242. l9l5. of Ireland affair". Fifty or sixty men have gone from Bantry district. Bantry, I suppose, is in "the West of Ireland" to Mr. Redmond. The Cunard and other steamship companies announce that they will refuse to book passages for young men of military age to America. "Sinn Féiners Raid ...

    • ... me. When I got to Bantry, on my usual rou4d, the people of the house where I, stayed told me the police of hat town had been making inquiries. They replied that they were not expecting me in Bantry ...

    • ... the meeting. They did not appear, so I travelled (to Bantry) on my usual round of teaching. It was stated in yesterday's papers that Dowling, "The man in the Tower", was from Bantry district. I heard ...

    • ... formed in Midleton about this time. (Subsequently. corps were formed in Bantry, Skibboroen, Dunmanway ...

    • ... 152. 19l5 evidence was flimsy and contradictory A Major Magan of Dublin was President of the Court and ho appeared rather lenient towards Liam O'Buachalls. last Saturday, in the train from Bantry, Vera two men. One, an old man 76 years of agog a respectable-looking farmer; intelligent, good ...

    • ... to Bantry and Glengarriff. The group that my wife and I went with journeyed to Lough Ine. We enjoyed ...

    • ... teaching my class here (in Bantry) I went to the Town Hall to a meeting of the reorganised Óglaigh Corps ...

    • ... 271. 1916 Mr. West Suydam took no notes. He wrote down nothing. He stated he would mention no names. He asked if he could see anyone else. After some hesitation, I gave him the name of Tomás MacCurtain. On the train to Bantry I met an acquaintance, an Excise Officer, a Protestant, a Unionist, 'I ...

    • ... and Kent are being tried today, but I had to come on here to Bantry on my work. I asked Diarmuid ...

    • ... 284. 1916. Wednesday evening I met Peadar Ó Hannrachain and asked him to get to work on the matter. I heard no more, not being in the city yesterday; but as I was leaving Bantry this morning, read a report of Wednesday night's meeting in the "Constitution" - a kind of report, rather. The "Con" also ...

    • ... an early train from Bandon, going on to Bantry. I was told Bandon was only half an hour's cycle ride ...

    • ... for Bantry. For myself, I had a season ticket over the line. While in the train, I reasoned thus ...

    • ... that there has been no agreen2ent with the British War Office and no offer made by them to the British ... Office and were to be quipped by the British Government). August 29th. A letter from Talbot Crosbie ... Office or assistance to the British in the war. A telegram was sent to Eoin MacNeill and he replied ...

    • ... 60. 1905 the "Examiner" office that there was to be a police raid on the "Celtic" room' presumed to be a search for "anti-recruiting literature". He had gone to the rooms in Great George's St ... be someone in the "Examiner" office is °pulling his leg". still, there could be something ...

    • ... into the luggage van. The train reached Cork a after midday. I got my parcel into the parcels office. That evening, I called to the Volunteer headquarters, Fisher Street, gave the parcel office ticket ...

    • ... "precautionary measures" which, it says, "have been sanctioned by the Irish Office, on the recommendation ... into force immediately on receipt of an Order issued from the Chief Secretary's Office, Dublin ...

    • ... 323. l9l6 women and boys jeering and boohing at police and soldiers. Cheers were given for Dublin and "the rebels". The recruiting office was smashed and stoned. So was the "Cork Constitution" office. The police were also stoned. Among others arrested in the county was Terence MacSwiney. Tom Kent ...

    • ... ).) Name: (J. Moloney.) Grade: Col. Department Office Court Date: 7 March 2003. ...

    • ... The office of supplyingEngland with recruits, artizans, and corn shall notbe our destiny." MEANS ...

    • ... for the post. He assumes a knowledge of Irish will be required, according to the Council's decision ...

    • ... all English law for the past Lot; years is now chief law officer! Redmond was offered a post ...

    • ... another post. An Orange- Unionist, Gordon, is made Attorney General for Ireland. Wimborne remains ...

    • ... in the papers gives "Irish pre-war and post-war tax", a reply of the Chancellor of the Exchequer to Mr ...

    • ... , is getting "nasty" - more and more cynical. A prohibition against sending revolvers by post has been ...

    • ... for whom the "Times", "Daily Mail" and "Morning Post" speak support him. The Munitions Act is being ...

    • ... 350. 1916. still talk of some humbug of Home Rule. One thing stands out strikingly since Easter Week: Ireland is a nation governed against its will by overwhelming military force. As the "Morning Post" puts it, "England cannot afford to let Ireland go". There are some curious anomalies. Men ...

    • ... , with names and addresses In Irish, To the town Clerk's office. The official in charge ...

    • ... 37. 1904. Propagandist, but has drama in it. T. O'Neill-Russell, the; author9 was present and. spoke. The audience was not large but was appreciative. J.L. Fawsitt of the "Celtic" is secretary of the Society. Christopher Rooney note a report for the press. Calling to the "Cork Examiner" office ...

    • ... is now only kept as the office of the "Shield". Alas, poor Celtic! 1907. January 1st ...

    • ... . Called to the office of "Stun Féin" in Fownes St., but Griffith was not there. Had a conversation ...

    • ... was confirmed in office. Seán Jennings and myself became treasurers. Subscriptions were handed ...

    • ... Office offering the services of the Volunteers for the defence of Ireland. This announcement of his ...

    • ... the °Cork Constitution" office on a War Notice Board. No doubt, the notice is only precautionary ...

    • ... 156 1915. student9 and which he had sent on to Loin I4acNejfl with an invitation to the latter to come to Cork on St. Patrick's Day to review the Óglaigh. I bad seen this letter in Fasait's office, but did not pay much attention to it, as, from my Knowledge of the young man who wrote it, I did ...

    • ... 162. 1915• paltry separation allowances given to the dependents of soldiers, and finally assaulted the recruiting agent and the clerk in the office. They were brought up at the Police Court yesterday. The District inspector of Police wants to make a case of "sedition" out of it! According ...

    • ... 177. 1915. J.J. Walsh, who ins transferred from Cork to Bradford recently, has boon dismissed from the loot Office Service in consequence of a letter he wrote to the Cork Corporation, protesting against the Freedom or the City being conferred upon Lord Lieutenant Wimborne. In a private letter ...

    • ... in power again. The plums of office are plucked from the Redmondites. What a rewat1 for their "loyalty ...

    • ... by the War Office. The officers of the "Regiment" state they wore willing to do anything Lord ...

    • ... in the "Examiner" office that P.T. Daly, in the course of the debate, said he stood, like his father ...

    • ... ", underscoring a quotation from Davis: "The office of supplying England with recruits - - shall not be our ...

    • ... yesterday, issued from the same office as "The Spark". We have now - weekly: "The Irish Volunteer ...

    • ... about the War Office not availing of the service of his Volunteers. He said there was "a small section ...

    • ... that the Germans opened the letters of German Catholic Bishops. Were the British War Office officials ...

    • ... into Ireland. "Yes, but I am here under the protection of the British Foreign Office". "Everything you write ...

    • ... some of these terms had been killed by ridicule, but it seems this is not so in the "Freeman" office ...

    • ... 312. 1916. and ammunition unknown. Such the morning "mystery". "Irish Independent": late news: three Dublin men have been arrested in connection with the affair, Later: placard outside "Cork Constitution" Office - "great excitement in Tralee. The military, naval and police forces are co-operating ...

    • ... into his office and we settled our affairs easily. August 13th. Sunday evening. Micháel Ó Cuill, who ...

  • WS Ref #: 1754 , Witness: Tom Barry, Wife of Tom Barry, nee Leslie Price; Member Cumann na mBan Executive, 1920 -1924

    • ... -21- In the evening I wandered all upstairs and got to the top floor of the Post Office - there to find my brother, Seán. When he and his man had been disbanded at Cabra Bridge, he and one other had made their way into the Post Office. He was on the top floor of the Post Office and a young fellow ...

    • ... -13- We went back to the Post Office and I was utterly miserable having to leave his dead body. I ... back to the Post Office on and there I met Seán MacDermott and Mick Staines. I was in the Post Office when Pearse read an address - actually in the front nortion of the Post Office as far as I can ...

    • ... in his ear. His death must have been reported at the Post Office and we got the order to evacuate the Hibernian Bank. We went back to the Post Office and I was utterly miserable having to leave his ... . Then I reported back to the Post Office on and there I met Seán MacDermott and Mick Staines. I ...

    • ... . O'Flanagan, "Isn't it extraordinary you did not kneel beside the other man?". We got to the Post Office ... on no account was he (the priest) to be let out of the Post Office. That was Thursday, and it must ... to the top floor of the Post Office - there to find my brother, Seán. When he and his men had been ...

    • ... -14- might have been the night of the day on which I arrived back in the Post Office. The thing ... Street side of the Post Office. Our line of route was Mary Street, across Capel Street, up Mary's ... to the Post Office. We did not go to the Four Courts. I remember Bríd and myself on the following day ...

    • ... -19- will go into the Post Office. Let these people be burned to death' They are murderers". Mrs ... of courage to fight a priest. I said, "If no priest is going to the Post Office, I am going back alone. I feel sure that every man in the Post Office is prepared to die, to meet his God ...

    • ... stomach. I remember then, when I suppose the death of Weafer was reported to the Post Office, that we ... and saying an Act of Contrition in his ear. His death must have been reported at the Post Office ... that Weafer was near a window and that it was fire from the Ballast Office got him, not a direct (Lit ...

    • ... on the Prince's Street side of the Post Office. Our line of route was Mary St., across Capel St., up ... to the Post Office. We did not go to the Pour Courts. I remember Bríd and myself on the following day, Thursday, being sent from the Post Office to the King St. area. This time it was a written despatch ...

    • ... 13. I said to him, "I have been sent over by Torn Clarke for the priest". He said, "You are not going to the Post Office, You are staying here. No one here will go into the Post Office. Let ... , "If no priest is going to the Post Office, I am going back alone. I feel sure that every man in the Post Office ...

    • ... , "You are not going to the Post Office. You are staying here. No one here ... the door. All these women told me the soldiers were in the Education Office, and the fall dost Cred he ... and kicked again, and finally a voice asked me, "Who is there?". I said, "I have come from the Post ...

    • ... an idea we passed the despatch to Dearmond there and came back to the Post Office. This was about four ... . We thought it was marvellous. I don't slept at all in the Post Office. at night sat on the steps ...

    • ... newly We got to the Post Office and I brought Fr. O'Flanagan to Tom Clarke. I remember Tom Clarke took Mick Staines aside, and he said on no account was he (the Briick) to be let out of the Post Office. That was Thursday, and it must have been about six o'clock when I finished that job. ...

    • ... 11. I don't think we slept at all in the Post Office. At night we sat on the steps going ... in the front of the Post Office and had been wounded. I remember saying to myself, "Here's good-bye to you ... . by the Rotunda and back again. I came out of the Post Office and, I darted across to Moore St. I ...

    • ... in his stomach. I remember then, when I suppose the death of Weafer was reported to the Post Office ... upstairs to the restauzant". This was Monday and I suppose it was 2.30 -3p.m. when we got into the Post Office. I went over to the Hibernian Bank. I suppose it would have been about four or five o'clock ...

    • ... -17- have seen I was terrified at my job. They said on no account to go across O'Connell Street but to cross Moore Street, 80 across St By the Rotunda and back again. I came out of the Post Office ... the Education Office was occupied by the British. I crawled along. In ...

    • ... is there?". I said, "I have come from the Post Office". That is all I said. The door was opened ... the Education Office was occupied by the British. I crawled along. In Marlborough St. there were railings ... were in the Education Office, and the halldoor could be seen from there. I kicked and kicked ...

    • ... and went into the Post Office. There we saw Seán MacDermott, Tom Clarke, Seán McGarry, Gearóid ...

    • ... . when we got into the Post Office. I went over to the Hibernian Bank. I suppose it would have been ...

    • ... Connolly brought in when he had gone out under the arches in the front of the Post Office and had been ...

    • ... . Bríd Dixon and I walked down to O'Connell Street and went into the Post Office. There we saw Seán ...

  • WS Ref #: 939 , Witness: Ernest Blythe, Minister Dail Eireann, 1921

    • ... 79. After I had been fairly well over the Bantry area and had started one or two Irish classes ... say that when I was going from Cork to Bantry on my first trip I travelled West in the train with Michael Collins and Diarmuid O'Hegarty, who were going to speak at an Aeridheacht in Bantry. I had met ...

    • ... unexpected difficulty in the shape of the Post Office strike. I have no doubt that the pay and conditions of the Post Office workers were unsatisfactory and that they had ample grounds for dis-content. I ...

    • ... . Actually, the whole Civil War crisis was so acute that there was no general sympathy for the Post Office ... the Dail met, as Minister for Local Government, he himself taking the office of Minister for Finance ...

    • ... , as an investigator in the Post Office under the British. Though it was not disclosed to me at the time, I heard ... . He remained for a considerable time in Oriel House, being ultimately, I believe, removed from office ...

    • ... 189. appointing a High Commissioner in London to take office as soon as the new Government ... , to take the post. I was present at the inter-view which Mr. Cosgrave and Kevin O'Higgins had with him in Leinster House. He refused the office, largely I think, because the summary executions to which I ...

    • ... admittance to the Old Ground Hotel. A man called Griffin, a Sinn Féiner, who was employed. by the Post Office as a telegraph linesman gave me a list of lodging-houses in the town. I went round about eight ...

    • ... 77. I went, as instructed by the Gaelic League, to Bantry and made my headquarters there for the three or four months that I continued in the employment of the Gaelic League. I religiously visited ... . I went by boat from Bantry to Castletownbere. When I landed I went straight to the hotel before ...

    • ... . In various other areas, like Kealkil, it proved easy to get Volunteer units going. Bantry itself had already ... that plagued the Volunteers. in Bantry most was that the Cumann na mBan insisted on trailing after them ...

    • ... of office, by proposing that the office of Captain should go round and that a new election should take place ... of office because he was a Protestant. Several people held office in succession after that, and Sean T. O'Kelly was in office at the time we were released just before Christmas 1916. Arthur Griffith ...

    • ... happened he could never make a success of the post of Commissioner and that it was necessary that anew man ... to accept an alternative post as Superintendent of the Dail. Whenhe actually took up duty he practically refused to do any work as he disliked the post intensely. In collaboration with the Government ...

    • ... 133. and Griffith over the appointment of a Minister for Propaganda. This post had been held during the whole Black and Tan period by Desmond Fitzgerald, who had discharged the duties extremely well. In fact, he was an ideal man for the post. He had literary a and intellectual tastes. He had lived ...

    • ... operated by Clover Meats. After getting out of prison I opened an office in Fleet St. We went ... . as a limited company. We got a huge brass plate and put it up on the office door. In addition ...

    • ... ; consequently, although we continued to hold the office and pay the rent and keep the bras plate up ... and were never suspected. One day we had to stay in the office for several hours because the police ...

    • ... . Cosgrave, who was Minister for Local Government, had ceased to attend in his office lest he should ... hundred times as many people as any of the rest of us. Not only had he not gone to his office, but he had ...

    • ... 136. Meetings began to be held immediately in preparation for the Dail Debates on the Treaty. Dan McCarthy, who had been an bid friend of Griffith and had at one time worked in the office of Griffith's paper, was appointed Whip, or assumed the office of Whip, for the pro-Treaty deputies. I ...

    • ... to the office, really Duggan's office in Government Buildings, where I sat. I heard later ...

    • ... on the certificate under Section 8(4).) Name: (J. Moloney.) Grade: Col. Department/Office/Court: Date: 7 ...

    • ... given on the certificate under Section 8 (4).) Name: (J. Moloney.) Grade: Col. Department/Office/Court ...

    • ... 14. and I believe that it was it which caused Sean McDermott, a few weeks later, to send, for me to take up the post of organiser for the I.R.B. After this meeting, Desmond Fitzgerald, Sean Og and I held several meetings throughout the area, at which we spoke in the strongest terms in favour ...

    • ... . The morning post brought a letter from Sean McDermott asking me to go immediately to Dublin. I obeyed ...

    • ... 23. I had never met Joseph Plunkett before this, and was interested to hear him say that if and when we got independence, the post which he would most wish to have in an Irish Government would be that of Minister of Foreign Affairs. I set off for Cork with instructions to see Tomas MacCurtain ...

    • ... had resigned his post as technical teacher when Mellows, McCullough, Pim and I were arrested ...

    • ... 73. When all the penal servitude prisoners were released and the East dare election campaign began, I decided to stay put no longer. I wrote a letter to the British Commander in Dublin withdrawing my undertaking to remain in the limited area and sent it off by registered post. At the end of a week ...

    • ... 90. Lord. He was justified in his confidence because one of the group got coven pounds of sugar in by the forenoon post that very day. A little bad blood arose between the wan who had been Iii Belfast before we arrived and the incoming Dundalk group, and definite ill-feeling was Shown by Austin ...

    • ... and swinging it strongly and that had been done extensively during the post Christmas revolt ...

    • ... not are a damn, were urging him to accept the post. Ultimately, Collins asked de Valera to cut the cackle ...

    • ... that I would be conscripted for the post, for which I knew I would not be well fitted. Ultimately ...

    • ... me his resignation from the post of Secretary to which he had just been appointed. I refused ...

    • ... . At one period I was elected Centre of that Circle, which was the only office I ever held ...

    • ... 6. After some time I was asked by Denis McCullough and Bulmer Hobson to resign from being Centre of the Belfast Circle. They explained to me that it was to enable McCullough to be elected to a higher office. I believe that Denis McCullough, who was in touch with the surviving remains of the old ...

    • ... was taken into the Sergeant Major's office to be enrolled as an inmate and to be searched. To my ...

    • ... to his office he informed me that the order issued in July 1915 directing me to leave Ireland ...

    • ... 94. but in a case like this the authorities allowed daily visits. Also people like Austin Stack and myself who held office amongst the prisoners were allowed to see anybody who asked for us. We sometimes had two or three visits per day, There was apparently a very large Branch of Cumann na mBan ...

    • ... was that I was summoned to the Governor's office next day and told that I had. committed a breach ...

    • ... of Trade and Commerce. For a time after my appointment as Director of Trade and Commerce my office ...

    • ... 115. trade papers for manufacturers on the continent who were looking for agents, and we off ered to sell their goods for them. By this means we got a good deal of commercial correspondence into the office and a large pile of samples of all sorts of things which, as a rule, we never tried to sell ...

    • ... 117. We, later, just about the time of the Truce, took an office in an upper floor of a house in Duke St. A month or two after the Truce we moved into offices in Grafton St. over a shop then owned by Kelly, now Kelly of Menswear. During the interval Diarmuid Fawsitt had ceased to be Consul in New ...

    • ... out of office. I did feel at the time that Joe McDonagh ...

    • ... , I think, was the person who actually prevented Collins walking into the trap. His office in Henry ...

    • ... of Government, with Ministries going into office and being defeated and replaced every two or three months ...

    • ... to the office to be typed and distributed. A deep and lasting split occurred amongst the Dail officials ...

    • ... not be induced to go down to his office. We were told that, on occasion, three or four, deputations were ...