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WS Ref #: 606 , Witness: James P Flood, Commandant IV and IRA, Longford, 1913 - 1921
... messages passing through the Post Office in Mullingar. We got occasional ones from the Longford Post Office but the bulk of them came from Mullingar. Dublin Headquarters used to send us the key ...
WS Ref #: 1744 , Witness: Sean Nunan, Secretary to President de Valera, USA, 1919; Registrar Dail Bonds, 1919 - 1921
... files, entered the Post Office by the Henry Street door - the main body entering through the main door in O'Connell Street. AU civilians and Post Office staff were evacuated, and we, proceeded ...
... to the recruiting office at the White City, Shepherds Bush, and brought before the Medical Officer ...
... activity was conducted through a propaganda office in Chicago, called the "Benjamin Franklin Bureau ...
... to Inspector McFeeley's office, and opened a large, steel safe in which the reports were kept. Collins and I stayed in the safe, listing the names and activities of the detectives on political work, until about 4 a.m., when we walked home - Collins to Mountjoy Street and I to Botanic Road ...
... us that the President was not there, but suggested we try the office of the Friends of Irish Freedom ...
... Dáil Éireann funds. From this office, hundreds of thousands of leaflets, booklets, etc., were distributed throughout the country by the local councils of these organisations. When this part of the President's programme was an assured success, and he realised that it was not possible to obtain ...
WS Ref #: 549 , Witness: Robert Kelly, Member IRB, IV, Newry, 1903; 1914 - 1916
... 1920, Returned majorites on the two newry Renthal Comecils and got over one third of newry Urbanst There was also a post office Raid, a Head Constable Hoot and Ambush at Egyptian arch. Her sent Volenteer to the attack on Newtown Hamilton Barrack. 1921, Police Barrck attacked newvy Corrags ambush ...
... a post office raid, a Head Constable shot and an ambush at the Egyptian Arch. We sent Volunteers ... to law all objections must be served personally or by registered post. The Unionists used ordinary post ...
... All objection must be served personall or by regristred post the Unionist med ordaing post, we sat light and at the regristration court, had to be allover all our claims. About this time I was asked to take charge of the newry Bette I.U. I reputed, Lavery agreed with me, as there was no one to hold ...
WS Ref #: 605 , Witness: John Cosgrove, Captain IRA, Armagh, 1921
... on Tassagh Post Office, April 1921; (a.) Plans for Rising, Northern Ireland, 1922. Conditions ...
... . In or about April 1921, I, in charge, accompanied by 8 or 9 went to Tassagh Post Office to raid the mails ... Officer. We arrived at the post office after night-fall and entered the kitchen part of the premises where ...
... 5. business of the post office was carried out. The lights in the kitchen went out and one of our men, Haughey of Ballymacnab, received a gunshot wound in the arm. The postmaster had police ... to evacuate the premises. Some of the men taking part in the attack wanted to set fire to the post office ...
... 6. days after the attack on the post office and, when passing on the street near the post office in Armagh, I was arrested by police and taken to the R.I.C. barracks. I was searched in the barracks, interrogated and, after a short time, released. On my way home at Lisnadill Church I was overtaken ...
... of Hibernian Mallon reprisals for same. VIII. Attack on Tassagh Post Office, April 1921. IX. Arrest of John ...
WS Ref #: 1389 , Witness: Sean Gaynor, Commandant IRA, Tipperary, 1921
... -6- 2n Battalion - Jeremiah Collison - in office until June 1921 when be was demoted in consequence ... of the A.S.U., replaced Collison and he remained in the post until the Truce. 3rd Battalion - William Gleeson - removed from post on grounds of unsuitability. Succeeded by Paddy McDonnel1 who held rank ...
... , in the house of Thomas O'Brien. His sitting room became our office. In it we bad a typewriter which ... of the R.I.G., named Deals Horgan, who in 1920 was occupying the post of Petty Sessions clerk in Nenagh ...
... results. The shooting of an R.I.C constable named McCarthy outside the Nenagh post office on 2nd ...
... where I started preparations to relinquish my post as brigade commandant, to take up duty as adjutant ... , a good- sized fanner's house, in which the sitting room was placed at our disposal as an office ...
... Post - about 40 men. Military Post in local military barracks at Summerhill - about 60 men. Toomevara - R.I.C. Post - about 12 men. Cloughjordan - 20 Borrisokane - 20 Templederry - 20 Silvermines - 20 Kilcommon - 26 Newport - 20 Portroe - 20 Ballina - Auxiliary post - about 50 men. Roscrea - R.I.C ...
... of a party who raided the local income tax collector's office. About half a dozen men forced an entrance into this office and removed all the papers and records found there, to the yard of the creamery where they wore burned. While the office was being searched, the street leading to it was held by a dozen ...
... by Med O'Leary who held the post until he was appointed 0/C, Brigade Active Service Unit in September ...
... night, but the post was not captured, though the building was so badly destroyed that it had ...
... cowing by post under covering addresses. All des patches from Headquarters to the Brigade were ...
... of Nenagh, they were transferred to a post car (horse and sidecar) owned by Frank Flannery, and were ...
... -20- We noticed barbed wire tied across the street from a telegraph pole to another post, and we held, for interrogation, three men we found on the street as we suspected they had erected the wire. These turned out to be three local robbers - ex British soldiers - who had selected that night to do ...
... -24- in prison with men who did not approve of physical force caused him to become so moderate in his view as to be unfit to lead the brigade at this critical juncture. I sent my resignation as Brigade Adjutant to G.H.Q., explaining that I could not see my way to hold the post any longer while ...
... , such as, copies of telegrams and details of phone conversations between one enemy post and the other ...
... the O.C Ned O'Leary to his old post as Brigade Adjutant and replace him by Jack Collison, the Vice 0/C ...
WS Ref #: 242 , Witness: Liam Tannam, Captain, IV & IRA, Dublin, 1913-20
... immediately to your rooms are well barricaded. We have a post in the house at the corner of Bachelor's Walk, in the Metropole Hotel, in the Imperial Hotel, in the General Post Office. The directions ... in Charge Reis's and D.B.C. The main purpose of your post is to protect our wireless station. Its ...
... goose chase, and he then stammered, "they are in the General Post Office. They have taken the General Post Office". Darcy and I proceeded around by Eden Quay, passed the Abbey Theatre, turned left ...
... the Metropole Hotel for food and beading. Our transport was one of those Post Office basket oars and when I ...
... twice more. In the Post Office at several times I saw an Indian Army Officer, an Irishman I believe ...
... had been given the opportunity of leaving the General Post Office with the other prisoners ...
... of the post, is in hiospita1, He mentioned that we had somebody in the Hibernian Bank. I now know that there was a First Aid Post in the Hibernian Bank. He called a typist, Miss Kearney I think ...
... the possibilities of the use of the tower of the D.B.C. as an observation post. I established ...
... post I instructed the man who was with me not to fire any more from it but report on everything he saw ...
... operating against our post was situated there. A couple of officers left us, entered that building ...
... temporarily in that post while my hut leader Kilgallon was ill. The hut leaders were locked up in a special ...
... Statement by Liam Tannam, 29 Garvifle Avenue, Rathgar, Dub1in. First I Joined the Volunteers in the A.O.H. Hall, Donnybrook, in 1914. It was Eamon Ceannt who induced me to join the Irish Volunteers. His office was next door to mine in the Municipal Buildings, Castle Street. One day he asked me ...
... 7. cleared away, e.g. in the event of a raid. The office staff at the time consisted of:- Bulmer Hobson, Secretary, Barney Mellows, and a girl Maeve Ryan (who. was Champion Stepdancer.), clerks, and a messenger, Seumas Cooling. I was appointed a member of the County Dublin Board of the Irish ...
... . A few later reported. to Bolands, the G.P.O., the Mail Office and the College of Surgeons. On the way ...
... 5. I was not quite 20 years: when I was Company Commander and I felt I was really too young for that responsible post. In the Company we had all kids of people from doctors to labourers and they were all older than I was. De Valera seemed to have recognised that I was rather young and for four ...
... 38. disappeared, but the third man waived to me from the post in Moore Street. A barricade had been thrown across by the retreating garrison at the bead of Moore Lane. I joined him and found that the garrison was engaged in breaking through the walls of houses of this block in the direction ...
WS Ref #: 1060 , Witness: Seamus Finn, Officer IRA, Meath, 1921
... 65. Raid on Kells Post Office: Around February 1921 the Brigade Engineering Officer, E. Cullen, received information that a certain type of telegraph instruments were in the Post Office in Kells. He ... then entered the Post Office premises by the rear. Having crossed some yards and gardens they arrived ...
... was made. This post office official was a man named Hughes, and much of the stuff that he handed ... wanted. After some time the enemy intelligence became suspicious of Navan Post Office and the local police authorities placed a young lady in the office without any examination or other qualification than ...
... of it reached G.H.Q. At Kells an attempt to capture a set of telegraphic instruments from the Post Office failed as the men on the job were surprised by an R.I.C. patrol and some of them were wounded ...
... the job could be carried out. Some time before the murder of the postmaster our friend in the Post Office ...
... 71. the enemy. it was as a result of this that suspicion fell on the Post Office in Navan and the arrangement mentioned was made by them. During the period that our patrol squads were trying for the two men responsible for killing Mr. Hodgett this I.O. of ours sent out information about another ...
... and company - Stonefield - and the Last Post and Reville sounded by a Volunteer from Oldcastle Company ...
... 49. The next night other areas did their work, and we now had a line of coast from Dollymount (which had been done by the Dublin Brigade) to Annagassan, with one solitary coastguard station - Balbriggan - which we failed to destroy. Howeven, this one post would not affect the success of the landing ...
WS Ref #: 1173 , Witness: Michael Hynes, Member IV and IRA, Galway, 1915 - 1921
... remember. They were dressed in khaki. They had taken the precaution of 'phoning the Post Office ... O'Loughlin and my brother Willie, were in the Post Office at the time. The postmistress postmistress was Miss ... in the garden. When the leading Marine came to about 40 yards of the Post Office we were to open fire ...
WS Ref #: 1222 , Witness: Thomas Roche, Member IV, Cork, 1916; Training Officer, IRA, Cork, 1921
... captured. All the letters &c. not sent to Dublin were delivered to the Post Office authorities safely ... , the practice was dropped. The Post Office authorities proceeded to collect telephones from all districts in which British forces were not stationed,. Post Office officials were permitted to dismantle ...
... charge of a party of I.R.A. in Newmarket R.I.C. barracks and remained there until the post was occupied ...
WS Ref #: 1297 , Witness: Michael O'Driscoll, Lieutenant IRA, Cork, 1921
... , Tim Sweeney and Dan Mahony and shoot a Tan who called to the post office each morning for the mail. We ... , opposite the. post office. While making a rest for my rifle on the fence, I discovered a new Mills bomb ... in the fence. After waiting for some time, the Tan came along and, as he came to the post office, we let him ...
... approaches to Goomhoola. The line extended from Bantry into Coomhoola Valley. The signallers were ...
... under Ted Sullivan who were in ambush on the Bantry-Glengarriff road at Anagashel, which is about ... R.I.C. man had gone into Bantry in civvies, and we waited for him to return. When he came along, we ...
... and cart with the mine. The British captured the mine and took the horse and cart into Bantry. My brother went into Bantry and went to the barracks to claim the horse and cart. He told the officer that he ...