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WS Ref #: 1765 , Witness: Sean T O'Kelly, President of Ireland, 1945; Took part in Rising, 1916; Speaker Dail Eireann, 1920; Irish Representative, Paris & Rome, 1920 -1921
BMH.WS1765 PART 2.pdf, on page 103
... 244. Office, took the horse and cart inby the back entrance to the Post Office up Princes' Street. the cart was unloaded and the men carried, the bombs into the back of the Post Office building. Having seen that fob Completed took MacGowan with me and gound Connolly Somewhere round the building, we ...
BMH.WS1765 PART 1.pdf, on page 19
... in there to transact any business, In this way we held the post office with our parcels which were refused ... organised in other parts of Ireland, until the Post Office pricey accepted letters or parcels which ... branch of the Gaelic League all over Ireland from headquarters. The parcel post officials refused ...
BMH.WS1765 PART 2.pdf, on page 69
... by special orders, brought to centain officials of the headquarters of the Post Office, pened ... Dublin, their correspondence would have to be taken out of the local Post Office and forwarded in special sealed envelopes to the officer in charge of this particular special branch in the Post Office ...
BMH.WS1765 PART 2.pdf, on page 100
... in time to see a group of perhaps two or three hundred men, not more, march into the Post Office. I ... at this time all over the building. I remember being taken by somebody up to the roof of the Post Office ... Monday morning and went to the Gaelic League office arriving there probably about 10 o'clook After ...
BMH.WS1765 PART 1.pdf, on page 133
... of our friends in Killarney got in touch with telegraph officials at the Post Office. and asked them ... , although officially the Post Office telegraph service was closed on Sunday - at least in Killarney ...
BMH.WS1765 PART 2.pdf, on page 68
... in Europe word reached Tom Clarke through some official of the Post Office with many of whom he ... to the Department concerned or the Post Office of the names of persons whose correspondence was to be ...
BMH.WS1765 PART 2.pdf, on page 106
... 247. and being fired on from the Post Office building. How many were in the Company of lancers ... the streets seemed to be clear of people. I watched the scene from behind one of the pillars of the Post Office I saw, three or four lancers fall off their horses. I think two horses were killed. So far ...
BMH.WS1765 PART 2.pdf, on page 102
... -making and come with his companions and all his bombs and other material to the Post Office. I remember ... , and we marched, a group of 7 or 8 of us, back to the Post ...
BMH.WS1765 PART 2.pdf, on page 112
... acquaintance I had made in the Post office in 1916. Craven now lives in Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.A. I appointed ... by the standing committee to take on the post of Acting Director of Organisation and in the circumstances I did ...
BMH.WS1765 PART 1.pdf, on page 16
... to the individual or firm concerned, and inundate the Post Office with such communications addressed solely hi ...
BMH.WS1765 PART 2.pdf, on page 34
... was frequently detained in the Post Office intentionally and some of it was sent on to the local censor ...
BMH.WS1765 PART 2.pdf, on page 39
... office then situated at 12 D'Olier Street. Every day we would have problems of one kind or another ... of the Waterworks Committee of the Dublin Corporation. This post had been secured for him through ...
BMH.WS1765 PART 2.pdf, on page 105
... in the distance away up towards Parnell Square and some others and I rushed out of the Post Office to the front ...
BMH.WS1765 PART 1.pdf, on page 95
... in Fownes Street consisted of two small rooms, an outer and an inner office. In the outer office ...
BMH.WS1765 PART 2.pdf, on page 74
... . At that period I was a daily visitor to Tom Clarke's shop and to Seán MacDermott's Office at 12 ... to account for the absence of Connolly from his own office for number of days. I am sure I was told ...
BMH.WS1765 PART 2.pdf, on page 47
... minutes as the Office of the Gaelic American was then at William Street, Lower New York ... employed for some time in the Gaelic American newspaper office. Just as a matter of interest perhaps I ... with Devoy for me. I thought it wiser not to visit the Gaelic American that office as it was quite ...
BMH.WS1765 PART 2.pdf, on page 87
... men several times each day. I would be back and forward from the Gaelic League office to see Tom Clarke in his shop in Parnell Street, and from there would go to the "Irish Freedom" office 12 ... he was receiving his instructions from MacDermott, but speaking with him in the "Freedom" office ...
BMH.WS1765 PART 1.pdf, on page 72
... there were secured by favour with influential members of the Council. Whether the post was one ... of who had the strongest pull to secure the post for a friend. When Alderman Tom Kelly was elected ...
BMH.WS1765 PART 1.pdf, on page 76
... , having resigned from some Civil Service post he held in London. Seán Lee juollaenat afterwarde ...
BMH.WS1765 PART 2.pdf, on page 12
... be held to consider the new situation created by the war in Europe, to take place in my office at 25 ... , and they thought that the Library of the Gaelic League which I used as an office would be a suitable ...
BMH.WS1765 PART 2.pdf, on page 84
... Secretary's Office, and they maintained that they were satisfied that no such document ever existed in the Chief Secretary's Office in Dublin Castle. They further stated that there was never any intention ...
BMH.WS1765 PART 1.pdf, on page 5
... Street, Dublin which was the printing office set up by a number of Gaelic Leaguers to help ...
BMH.WS1765 PART 2.pdf, on page 46
... up the telephone number of The Gaelic American Office and rang there. I told the person who answered who I was and that I wanted to see somebody from the Office. The person who answered the phone ...
BMH.WS1765 PART 1.pdf, on page 28
... Campbell the post was another. Stephens, Connolly, O'Sullivan and Gogarty were friends and associates ...
BMH.WS1765 PART 1.pdf, on page 53
... their ends. They endeavoured to fill every post in every public body with their members ...
BMH.WS1765 PART 1.pdf, on page 74
... Service post in London and take the position of General Organiser in Munster of the Gaelic League. I ...
BMH.WS1765 PART 2.pdf, on page 37
... in speaking of Harrell that he had been dismissed train his post as Assistant commisioner of the Police after ...
BMH.WS1765 PART 2.pdf, on page 142
... in the year 1898 He remained in the service of the Library until 1902. He resigned the Library post because ...
BMH.WS1765 PART 2.pdf, on page 143
... , which post he held for many years. In 1900 he was associated with the late George Clancy - who ...
BMH.WS1765 PART 1.pdf, on page 31
... 27 creditors. The meeting was held in the office of tered Accountant of Westmoreland Street. This same nor was an active man in all the activities of the Irish-Ireland Movement. He was auditor of the Sinn féin organisation and of the "Sinn Féin" newspaper. I attended the meeting of Pearse's ...
BMH.WS1765 PART 1.pdf, on page 33
... Westminster The Liberal Party had been elected to power and office, I think, in December 19O5 under ...
BMH.WS1765 PART 1.pdf, on page 34
... 30 2. When the Liberals took office it was generally expected in Ireland that the Irish' Parliamentary Party who had given the Liberals generous support it England, would have had influence enough to induce that British Government 'to introduce a good Rome Rule Bill. In fact, such a Bill had been ...
BMH.WS1765 PART 1.pdf, on page 73
... . In that year the Coisde Gnótha of the Gaelic League decided to reorganise its headquarters office. I ...
BMH.WS1765 PART 1.pdf, on page 118
... 118 DREACHT W/ I was, of course, an active member of the Volunteer Organisation from the beginning. I hold no office, military or otherwise, in the organisation. I was simply a private member. I joined the first Company that was organised on the North side of Dublin. It was the 'B' Company ...
BMH.WS1765 PART 2.pdf, on page 18
... in "The Irish Freedom" office, D'Olier Street, to discuss plans for obstructing the Asquith recruiting ...
BMH.WS1765 PART 2.pdf, on page 30
... office from some place outside the parcel containing the thousand sovereigns. I handed over my cheque ...
BMH.WS1765 PART 2.pdf, on page 32
... in the country. I remember attending a meeting which was held, I think, in the Irish Freedom Office ...
BMH.WS1765 PART 2.pdf, on page 38
... , with a British code which was to be used in the sending of mews to Harrell's office in Dublin. I am ...
BMH.WS1765 PART 2.pdf, on page 40
... should be seized and held; - the General Pot Office O'Connell Street Dublin to be seized and held ...
BMH.WS1765 PART 2.pdf, on page 79
... 221. took in the comings and goings of that week. I have a recollection of seeing and speaking to O'Rahilly, I think it was that week, in the Headquarters' Office in Dawson Street, but as far as I remember my talks with him would be early in the week, but as to what part O'Rahilly took, or whether ...
BMH.WS1765 PART 2.pdf, on page 83
... 225. Another matter that gave rise to very widespread discussion and certainly caused consternation was the publication of a document said to have been purloined from the Secretary's Office, Dublin castle, and which gave detailed instructions to the police and military as to the proponed arrest ...
BMH.WS1765 PART 2.pdf, on page 88
... out to Woodtown Park, Rathfarnham, and added that I going direct to MacDermott's office and expected ...
BMH.WS1765 PART 2.pdf, on page 97
... others. I sat on there, with MacNeill after he came back from the "Independent" newspaper office where ...
BMH.WS1765 PART 2.pdf, on page 124
... with him in the Manchester Guardian office one night, we found Mr. Scott deeply /interested ...
BMH.WS1765 PART 2.pdf, on page 127
... morning I took it to Micheal O'Foghlwithas office and there type-written copies were made ...
BMH.WS1765 PART 2.pdf, on page 129
... were nominated to office at this meeting of the Dáil that the Government or Cabinet that was here set ...
BMH.WS1765 PART 2.pdf, on page 136
... as possible to the Military Permit Office which was situated, so far as I can now remember, on Bedford ...
BMH.WS1765 PART 2.pdf, on page 145
... , was the first time that Sean T. O Ceallaigh sought as a candidate for public office In that month he ...
BMH.WS1765 PART 2.pdf, on page 48
... his work at the office we would meet in a private room in the Ennis Hotel and discuss the subject ...
BMH.WS1765 PART 2.pdf, on page 137
... 276 have been about ten or shortly after it that I was ushered into one of several offices in the building where military or naval officers, or at least persons in military or naval uniform were examining people applying for permits to travel. I was shown into an office where there was seated ...
BMH.WS1765 PART 2.pdf, on page 139
... in the hotel, I installed myself in one and had Mcw, and Victor Collins as staff in the other office ...
WS Ref #: 1426 , Witness: Denis Keohane, Commandant IRA, Cork, 1921
... gable of the enemy post. I was in charge' of the latter party, which consisted of Denis Daly (1st Lt ... , but was then called off as there was no prospect of capturing the post. I then returned with the other members1 ... of this weapon. The rifle had been taken off a British patrol boat in Bantry Bay in November, 1919 ...
... 14. All were consigned to the military post at Bere Island. The "weigh-bill", when found amongst ... party of military arrived at the hold-up point by road from Bantry, but we had already withdrawn from ... post offices in the district. Early in June, 1921, the Lewis gun, which had been captured ...
... the road from the R.I.C. post, a small section taking up a similar position to the rear. Another ... were In ambush position on the Bantry-Drimoleague road at Inchingearig about 21/2 miles from ... enemy reinforcements which might come from, Bantry. As the attack was not a succes our party ...
... ROINN COSANTA. BUREAU OF MILITARY HISTORY, 1913-21 STATEMENT BY WITNESS. DOCUMENT NO. W.S. 1426. Witness Denis Keohane, New Street, Bantry, Co. Cork. Identity. Vice 0/C, Bantry Battalion, Cork Ill Brigade, I.R.A. Subject. Activities of Caheragh Company, Bantry Battalion, Irish Volunteers, 1914-1921 ...
... 10. Battalion Staff of Bantry Battalion at this stage were: 0/C Tom Ward Vice 0/C Denis Keohane (witness) Adjt. Michael Harrington Q/M John J. O'Sullivan. The Battalion 0/C (Tom Ward) fell sick early ... to carry out an attack on this post next night. In the meantime the Column O/C expressed a desire ...
... , Bantry, while the Brigade Vice 0/C (Ted O'Sullivan) and another party were laying a mine at the railway bridge at Sheskin just outside Bantry. The bridge was approximiately 200 yards from ... , 1921, men from three companies (Caheragh,, Durrus, Bantry) were engaged' on trenchin; the main Bantry ...
... (Billy O'Sullivan, Dan O'Mahoney and Vim. Dillon) returned to Bantry area. This was, I think, June 26th ... , from the Bantry Battalion. I was engaged on work in connection with the protection of Brigade I1.Q ... , Bantry Battalion, Cork ill Brigade, I.R.A. The strength of the battalion was about one thousand two ...
... 3. It was about this time that Cork Brigade was organised into battalion units. Our company (Caheragh) became a unit of Bantry Battalion. Other companies in this battalion at the time were: Bantry, Kealkil, Pearson's. Bridge, Glengariff, Durris, Comhola, Drown Sullivan.. The officers of the Bantry ...
... 7. proposed to hold up and disarm a patrol of R.I.C. in Bantry town. It was for this reason that men from the Bantry Company were not included in the party. If and when captured, the R.I.C. party ... and moved into Bantry with the intention of attacking the R.I.C. patrol. When we entered the town we found ...
... to the' outskirts of Bantry where we met the Battn. 0/C. The party was then disbanded and all returned ... and Bantry Battalions Was established at Kealkil. The camp, which was carried on for a week ... was collected in Caheragh Company area as well as throughout the Bantry Battalion about this time ...
... 15. to travel by train from Bantry. It was decided to ambush this train in Inchingearig Company area next morning. All present at the meeting moved to Inchingearig that evening. With Torn Ward (0/C ... for the hold-up of a goods train between Cork and Bantry at Aughavilla. Amongst the military stores taken from ...
... STATEMENT BY DENIS KEOHANE, New St.. Bantry. County Cork. I was born at Caheragh, Drimoleague, in March, 1891. I was; educated at the local national school until I reached the age of fifteen when I went to work in the local creamery. I joined the Caheragh Company of the Irish Volunteers ...
... 4. Our battalion (Bantry) now became a unit of Cork 11l. Brigade. Other battalions in the brigade were: Bandon, Clonakilty, Dunmanway, Skibbereen. The first Brigade 0/C was Tom Hales, Bandon. Early in 1919 the Battalion 0/C (Ted O'Sullivan) reorganised the area. He made a number of changes ...
... . post. Sections were placed in position at the rear of the building, also behind the wall ...
... January, 1921. My duties in my new post entailed regular visits to the various companies, inspection ...
WS Ref #: 1065 , Witness: James Coss, Officer IRA, Cork, 1921
... working in the Post Office, while there were also two others at the railway station. The men in the Post Office were Jack Higgins (at the time a Post Office clerk and now Postmaster Fermoy), Dan Sweeney ... the Post Office in code were always forwarded immediately to Battalion H.Q. where they were decoded ...
WS Ref #: 639 , Witness: Maurice Donegan, Battalion Officer IRA, Cork, 1921
... stepped off the train at Bantry Station, dressed up to kill in a bowler hat and low shoes, only ... of the party which was to carry out the frontal attack on the barracks. Durrus is six miles from Bantry ... journey. I and two others, all armed with the rifles from the M.L. occupied a post in a grain loft ...
... -5- As regards the Glengarriff Job, we crossed from a cove east of Bantry town to Glengarriff Just ... concerned in. The night we crossed from Bantry to Glengarriff, as described in the previous paragraph ... lighthouse. I intended to construct a road mine for use in an attack upon troops travelling on the Bantry ...
... to the South and where there was a military post connected up with the lighthouse by telephone. The raid ... to this I was Vice 0.C. Bantry Battalion and early in August I was appointed 0.C. Battalion when Ted ... at Drimoleague and another in Bantry. The latter job I detailed to Ralph Keyes, 0.C. Bantry Company ...
... ROINN COSANTA. BUREAU OF MILITARY HISTORY, 1913-21. STATEMENT BY WITNESS DOCUMENT NO. W.S. 639 Witness Major Maurice Donegan, Sunview, Bandon, Co. Cork. Identity. Member of Bantry Company, Irish ... Volunteers, Bantry, 1916-1921; (b) Raid on British Naval M.L. at Bantry, 17/ 11/ 1919; (c) Military ...
... STATEMENT OF MAJOR MAURICE DONEGAN, SUNVIEW, BANDON, CO. CORK. 0.C. 5th (BANTRY) BATTALION, CORK ... the medium of the Irish Volunteers may have come from the group of Bantry townsmen, persons of standing ... in the Volunteers in Bantry from the inception of the organisation in 1913, even up to 1916. In fact, some ...
... Brigade was divided into three and we in Bantry found ourselves part of the 5th Battalion of the Cork ... 17th, 1919, there was carried out what was a very important operation in Bantry, to wit, a raid ... and plenty of ammunition. There used be a number of these M. Ls. based in Bantry Bay and operating along ...
... the mortification of being hauled off as prisoners to the military barracks Bantry Workhouse. Here we were ... , no less, lying in Bantry Bay, and brought round by sea to Cobh. Here ...
... a drink. In a few day's time we were brought over to an office and here we were confronted by Captain ...
WS Ref #: 761 , Witness: Christopher J.W. O'Keeffe, Member IV and IRA, Cork, 1915 - 1921
... -17- word of praise for a member of the Newmarket Post Office staff - a Miss Nellie O'Neill - who, during those eventful years, at great risk to herself, kept us fully informed of all enemy information and activity which passed through the Post Office. With her connivance, also, the mails were ...
... posted up a number of proclamations outside the barracks, in the post office and some other prominent ... out under a strong armed guard and provided with brushes, paste and fresh notices and told to post ... same day they brought us out again with brushes, paint, etc., and gave us another order to post them up ...
... the Dispensary building as a garrison post. The District Nurse and her husband, who lived ...
WS Ref #: 1469 , Witness: Denis Keohane, Commandant IRA, Cork, 1921
... was spent in negotiating with the garrison in an endeavour to get them to evacuate the post without ... ,. so positions surrounding the post were occupied by I.R.A. forces. Fire was opened on the post about ... occupied Bantry. On August 30th 1922 we decided to endeavour to recapture the town. We I succeeded ...
... ROINN COSANTA. BUREAU OF MILITARY HISTORY, 1913-21 STATEMENT BY WITNESS. DOCUMENT NO. W.S. 1469. Witness Denis Keohane, New Street, Bantry. Co. Cork. Identity. vice O/C, Bantry Battalion, Cork III Brigade, I.R.A. 0/C, Drimoleague Battalion, Cork V. Brigade, I.R.A. Subject. Activities of 3rd ...
... STATEMENT BY DENIS KEOHANE, New st.. Bantry, Co. Cork. I have already made a statement covering the period to the Truce on July 11th 1921. I now desire to furnish particulars of my activities ... .. was established in Bantry and all officers on the Battalion Staff Wet about organising the services ...
... with Dan O'Driscoll and Charley O'Brien. We were taken to Bantry and later to Cork Military Barracks ...
... of three companies of the. old Bantry Battalion (Caheragh, Inchingeeragh, Drimoleague), Bredagh ...
... was held in Bantry on June 29th or 50th 1922, and the news of the attack on the Four Courts had come ...
WS Ref #: 889 , Witness: James Kavanagh, Official Department of Local Government, Dail Eireann, 1921; Accountant Sinn Fein Executive, 1918 - 1919
... 46. My usual way of going to and coming from the Post Office was across the Metal Bridge1 through ... gate into the Post Office. On one of my journeys when returning to the Post Office I was halfway ... to the Post Office. When the Helga began to bombard Liberty Hall I was out poking around. As soon as I ...
... I remained in the Post Office, Pearse did not send me out on any assigment, perhaps because things ... that on entering the Post Office the Volunteers broke out all the glass windows and some distance back from ...
... 45. Peadar and Pádraig were at Boland's Mill, Seán at Watkins' Brewery with Con Colbert and Mícheál had been in the Post Office but out on a scouting expedition had come home to see how the mother ... back with him to the Post Office and reported to Pearse, who expressed himself well pleased ...
... one to shoot at. There was a good deal of fun during the week. In close proximity to the Post Office ... them, made a good deal of the time pass very pleasantly. All this time the bombardment of the Post Office was going on, and fellows were being wounded and, I'm sonny to say killed. On one occasion ...
... authorities and get them to pass a resolution of allegiance to Dail Eireann. As the Post Office was in the hands of the British at the time it was useless to send communications direct through the post ... the post was called a covering address. Through my long connection with the Gaelic League ...
... directly to the Post Office but went to my mother's house to find out how things stood. I found that my ... and more perturbed. I don't know what eventually happened as I left the office before she did ...
... the information I could about the condition of things away from the Post Office and the disposition ... of the crowd that had occupied the Daily Express Office (now the Evening wail) at the corner of Parliament St ...
... or Thursday, I lay down behind a glass partition at the back of the Post Office where most of our forces ...
... 52. I could have got more but I never bothered much about food so long as I'd something to keep me occupied. I've been told there was any amount of food of all sorts left to burn in the Post Office and nobody could understand why Desmond Fitzgerald was so niggardly regarding its distribution. Some ...
... , but some time after it became apparent that the Post Office was doomed Pearse came to me and said ...
... 57. with him then to the side door and found I was one of the last six left in the Post Office - Pearse, George Plunkett, myself and three others whose names I remembered until some time ago but which I've now forgotten, We walked quietly across Henry St. and into Henry Place (I think that's what ...
... 97. was something familiar about him but could not place him. After a while I discovered that he was the boy I'd seen brought down from the roof of the Post Office and whom Jim Ryan had told me was dead. I told him then what Jim Ryan had said about the bullet going in through the face and coming ...
... . It was the home of a friend of mine, Joe Clarke, a Post Office official who, for a great part of his time ...
... call in to the office to see the secretary. I think Liam Mellows was secretary at the time. Then we had an office boy named Seán Dolan. He was a lad - a handsome lad - from Skerries or Balbriggan or somewhere around there. Roger Casement sent him in to learn office work. He was a scream. He spent half ...
... enough to read this can see for himself. We had a lively time in the Sinn Féin office, between ... which I always kept on the floor beside me in the office. I kept them open, and whenever the raiders ...
... ". The next day was a holiday of obligation (Corpus Christi, I think). I slipped out of the office ... O'Keeffe was arrested in the office and taken away by Hoey and McFeeley, he was replaced as secretary ...
... remember one occasion on which Sean was taking a large consignment of papers from our office ... to the staff I've mentioned was Tom McArdle. He had been a civil servant in the office ...
... officer, who had an office in the building, accosted me one day when I was going up the stairs and asked ... about you, come into the office here and have a spot and we'll talk it over". Said I "I won't take ...
... the postman for the Volunteers before the Rising and we called him 'Seán the Post'. Apparently he found ...
... ., in their retail order office. We were a large family. There were ten of us altogether but one ...
... . If worked for a while as junior clerk in a solicitor's office and after a while, when seventeen years ...
... alive and working in the office of the Transpont and general Workers Union" Then Maud Gonne came ...
... 41. But in the meantime a number of things happened. There was the appointment of John Redmond's nominees to the Executive Committee. Naturally I was never present at the meetings of the executive, but it was easy to judge from general talk in the office following meetings that there was a good ...
... 71. were further concessions were made to try to induce us to fill in the forms, which he now referred to as "release forms". This went on day after day until he almost got down on his knees begging us to fill them in. Fir1ally he brought us in one by one to his office. I suppose what happened ...
... and was content to be employed as a clerk in a law office. He was a very cultured man with a nice ...
... , the manager of Griffith's paper, availed of Griffith's absence to tidy up the mess in Griffith's office ...
... in front of Griffith's office while the house was being searched for him. On another he just escaped ...
... into the office. He was a student of Trinity College, and told us that the Officers Training Corps ...
... and had tea1 told the wife I had to go back to the office to do some work, and returned to No. 6 ...
... to do what they could for him. I remember one day when Jack Kerr came into the office. He stared ...
... . One day he called in to see me in our office at 18 dare St. He said he felt that he could be more ...
... on to the staff, and it was time, for the work of the office was increasing daily and could ...
... of hers who had a shop in Cathedral St. where we deposited our papers pending the finding of a new office ...
... 137. ears open and let him know the moment he heard anything. What Peadar did was to come around and tell me. I passed the word on to Mick. A day or so after we heard Live revolver shots close to our office, and learned afterwards that a young man in a navy blue suit had been shot dead ...
... to have a vote. He also told me how he voted on the treaty. When leaving the office to attend ...
... Secretary's Office and told to apologise. This he had to do or lose his job. I thought no worse of Eoin ...
WS Ref #: 128 , Witness: Ralph P Keyes, Member IV, Cork, 1913 - 1916
... Inchide alex mcCarthy Pearson Bridge asked to Keackil with Bantry Volunteers on easter Sunday 1916 Signed R.P. Keyes ...
... ORIGINAL BUREAU OF MILITARY HISTORY, 1913-21 BURO STAIREMILEATA 1913-21 No. W.S. 128 ROINN COSANTA. BUREAU OF MILITARY HISTORY, 1913-21. STATEMENT BY WITNESS DOCUMENT NO. W.S. 128 Witness Captain Ralph P. Keyes Identity Member of Bantry Coy. I.V. 1913-1916. Subject Bantry Coy. I.V. Easter week 1916 ...
... through some drill with his own men. We learned later that Sergeant Lonergan, R.I.C., Bantry had brought an instruction from Bantry to the Sergeant at Kealkil to get as many names as possible of the men on parade. Lonergan and another policeman cycled from Bantry, and they were on the road when we ...
... OF RALPH P. KEYES BANTRY, C0. CORK. UNIT: BANTRY COMPANY, I.V. ERI0D: 1909 to MAY, 1919. A Branch of the A.O.H. American Alliance was established in Bantry about 1909. It continued in active existence up ... thirty. From the national point. of view it was the most advanced organisation functioning in Bantry ...
... to Bantry. He addressed all the members of the Company assembled at a parade. In the course of his ...
WS Ref #: 1462 , Witness: Sean Moroney, Captain IRA, Clare, 1921
... armed with carbines, to proceed daily to the. post office, which was. about a mile outside the village ... , with about 200 yards between each pair.. When the first pair arrived at the post office they remained outside until the other four came up. Then one of them entered the post office and collected the mail ...
... of the patrol reached the post office and remained outside. When the second pair were about forty yards from the post office,, one of our men in the, graveyard accidentally discharged a shot. This, of course ... in the locality, including those of some Volunteers who had taken part in the attack. They burned the post office ...
... in Kilrush was one of the' R.I.C. patrol we ambushed at Feakle Post Office. He led the Black ...
... 13. mile from the military post. We were in two sections, about 500 yards apart. After waiting all night, when it was near daybreak the patrol came along. It was about two hundred strong and under ... numbers were small and the military post being so near, we. did not follow them up. Comdt. Mattie ...
WS Ref #: 1369 , Witness: James Nolan, Officer Fianna Eireann, Waterford, 1921
... was in a position to include the General Post Office, Waterford, in my activities and was contacted immediately by a member of the Post Office staff when any message to or from the British garrison was issued through the Post Office (invariably in code). I continued all the time on this work until ...