Displaying results. 1081 - 1090 of 1246.
WS Ref #: 1702 , Witness: Sean O'Carroll, Officer IRA, Tipperary, 1921
... carry mail and despatches from one post to the other. Consequently, when the Crossley tender did ...
... . They also brought a special man from the Home Office, to address us and promise all sorts of ...
WS Ref #: 1705 , Witness: Nicholas Carroll, Vice-Commandant IRA, Kilkenny, 1921
... occupied by British military and police. At the time there was no enemy post in our Battalion area ...
WS Ref #: 1710 , Witness: Liam Forde, Brigade Commandant IRA, Limerick, 1921
... the post of land steward to a wealthy Limerick merchant named Stephen Dowling whose lands were ...
... of the Condensed Milk Company of Ireland, where I filled the post of cashier. It was, I think, early ...
... 2. Having left school I joined the Gaelic League, in the rooms of which most Of the winter evenings were spent. It was in these rooms I met the now immortalised Seán Heuston - who was employed in the G.S. & W. Railway office at Limerick. He and I became close companions. He was later transferred ...
WS Ref #: 1713 , Witness: James L O'Donovan, Director of Chemicals GHQ, 1921
... the principal places where tests were carried out at that period. During the years 1917 to 1919, when a post ...
WS Ref #: 1722 , Witness: Seumas Robinson, Officer IV, Dublin, 1916; Senior Officer IV and IRA, Tipperary, 1917 - 1921
... was to murmur "It was not my post". Connolly heaved himself over the barricade and ambled slowly ...
... of the farthest post held on this, the G.P.C. side of O'Connell Street. I found ...
... there were so few Volunteers at this most important post seeing there was a goodly number of men ...
WS Ref #: 1731 , Witness: John C King, Member West Connemara Brigade, 1921
... 21 along?" "Oh!", said Tomás, "I believe those fellows are murderers, 'do you know!" In a look-out post at the back of the house, there was a powerful telescope which was kept focussed on the Maam barracks which was about five miles away, as well as the Maam cross road. There was a sentry on watch ...
WS Ref #: 1735 , Witness: P.J. (Paddy) Kelly, Officer IRA, Mayo, 1921
... and waited long enough for an attack on the enemy post, which had been strongly reinforced ...
WS Ref #: 1746 , Witness: Matthew Connolly, Brother of Captain Sean Connolly, ICA, killed in action, 1916
... Leader, with his rifle pointed in my direction, ordered me back to my post. Reports of other ...
... -4- Army, that we were to be confined to barracks until further orders, and that nobody was to leave the Hall without permission. On Easter Monday morning, while standing guard on the landing of the main staircase, I saw seven Volunteer officers pass to and from Connolly's private office; among ...
WS Ref #: 1760 , Witness: Francis X Coghlan, Officer IV and IRA, Dublin, 1913 - 1921
... -3- post there. He had no rank at the time. When I got there, I was busily engaged, with other Volunteers, in erecting a barricade, facing the markets and Capel Street. We took special care in erecting this barricade. We had plenty of material available, and we arranged loopholes, through which we ...
WS Ref #: 1761 , Witness: Stephen J O'Reilly, Attached Transport Section Dublin Brigade and GHQ
... having an argument. We went out and saw a post-man and some poor unfortunate civilian having ...