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WS Ref #: 713 , Witness: Denis Dwyer, Lieutenant IRA, Cork, 1921
... no reinforcements from the Military Post at Ballincollig. Reinforcements, however, did arrive from Cork City ...
... -9- or alternative but to climb over it. I happened to be the last man getting over it and I slipped between the post and the gate and was securely held by the leg without any chance of releasing myself, and were it not for the prompt action of the Battalion Quartermaster (Denis Murray), who came ...
WS Ref #: 718 , Witness: T. Crawley, Vice-Commandant IRA, Roscommon, 1921
... to the enemy. Plans to attack military post at Kilmurray: The British had a strong party of troops ...
WS Ref #: 739 , Witness: Felix O'Doherty, Captain IRA, Cork, 1921
... -11- a lamp—post shouted “Give me a rifle arid I’ll do for the whole of them”. They behaved like heroes arid stood their ground. Then one of the foremost Volunteers threw up his hands and shouted “I’m killed”. His face was working like anything - he must be in great pain - he got a bayonet through ...
... to Patrick’s Bridge, wheeled and marched past the recruiting office. Later that night the windows were ...
... to Ireland, the reply of the War Office was that if troops were sent it -would involve a delay of a fortnight ...
... -27- called into the office of that paper to see Tadgh Barry (later shot by a British soldier while interned), who was on. the staff. When I gave him the letter, and having read it, he said “This is great”. I still have the cutting from the “Free Press”. He then led me to a room in which was seated ...
WS Ref #: 740 , Witness: John McGahey, Member IV and IRA, Monaghan, 1914 - 1921
... had charge. of the Column up to this time was dismissed from his post, and Terence McGee ...
WS Ref #: 742 , Witness: Thomas Halpin, Captain IRA, Tipperary, 1921
... a patrol from a post they held in the courthouse. These. fellows usually went out ...
... was employed as clerk in the parcels' office in Clonmel. In 1912 or 1913 I joined the St. Mary's Branch ...
... 16. consigned them back to the oil company, and however their accounts were manipulated they did not seem to have missed the 800 gallons; or so of petrol. At this time I was employed in the parcels' office at the railway station and most of the stores coming and going passed through my hands. I had ...
WS Ref #: 743 , Witness: Daniel Daly, Member IV, Cork, 1916; Brigade Officer IRA, Cork, 1921
... saw it just as it arrived and I ran off post haste to warn my brother, Paddy, also a Volunteer, who ...
WS Ref #: 756 , Witness: Con Leddy, Commandant IRA, Cork, 1921
... Constables that he had put up a fight in defence of his post. He had not been very long in Araglin ...
WS Ref #: 757 , Witness: Sean Tobin, Vice-Commandant, IRA, Waterford, 1921
... -9- I asked to have the protection of the Brigade Column while the job was being done, as this bridge was between three military centres - Dungarvan, Ballinacountry and a post at C. Nugent Humbles at Cloncoskerne. On the night arranged two lorry loads of enemy troops travelled over this bridge ...
... . Power, J.J. Cummings, Bill Dee, K. Gough and myself staged an attack on the Post, each of us firing ...
WS Ref #: 765 , Witness: James A Gubbins, Officer IRA, Limerick, 1921
... . Grant conceived the idea of dismantling the rifles and sending them by parcel post. It worked ...
... Merchants, as a junior clerk and after four years in the office was appointed as commercial traveller. I ...
... than I could. The court was held in the office and my statement read out by G man Walsh and when he had ...
... headlights showed up a sign post (which we had not heretofore observed) with a hand pointing to our right ...
WS Ref #: 769 , Witness: Sean Price, Member IRB, IV and IRA, Dublin, 1915 - 1921
... rifles and went to the forward post. I did not see Connolly after that. On the surrender we marched back ...