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WS Ref #: 480 , Witness: Eileen Murphy, nee Walsh; Officer Cumann na mBan, 1916 - 1921
... . A few of us met again in Harcourt Street on Tuesday morning. I went from there to the Post Office. Bridie Mahon was with me. We were admitted to the Post Office and as far as I can, remember ... Mahon, myself and Mrs. Sheehy-Skeffington, who happened to be in the Post Office, volunteered ...
... back to the Post Office. I cannot remember whether Mrs. Skeffington did, but Bridle Mahon went home and tried later to get into some post. I reported the success of our expedition. I was then asked ...
WS Ref #: 550 , Witness: Maurice J Collins, Member IV and IRB, 1916
... where the Black and Tans came from. He asked me could I get him a reliable man in the Post Office ... (their headquarters) to my address. From my associations with the Post Office staff on the Mail ... be but he brushed the idea aside and said that he would do it. Re travelled on the Mail Boat as a Post ...
... about 150 yards from our post with the result that we came under heavy fire. This continued until ...
WS Ref #: 615 , Witness: Frank Thorton, Member IRB & IV Dublin, 1913-16; Deputy Assistant Director of Intelligence, IRA 1919-21
... of the intelligence Service was organised about the middle of 1920. It was confined to the Post Office workers throughout the country. Sorters and Telegraphists in the Post Office were organised to collect copies ... we had Intelligence Agents in the Post Office itself a regular staff was set up, each man getting ...
... 2. contact and was always ready to lend a he1ing hand to assist them to meet their private responsibilities. During the height of the War he travelled from post to post and office on his old. Raleigh bicycle and, as often as not did not leave Devlin's in Parnell Square until just on ourfew. I think ...
... of the Post Office was: the seizure of ordinary mails. It is amazing the amount of information which ... 8. instructed to look out for certain types of correspondence and when any particular ietters, of which we were aware fron various other Agents, were passing through the post these were seized by our ...
... . "Office work was almost as important as outside work. The co-ordination of the information obtained ... and reports being, of course, conveyed by 'secret post'. Michael Collins was in regular ...
... of a nature that no honourable enemy ever employed no matter what the circumistances. A wooden post was erected in the middle of the Lancia car and to this post one of our .T.D's. who was a prisoner ...
... the Police force off duty were in attendance, including the District Inspector, in whose office ... into the D.I's office and annexing the photograph, which I brought back to Dublin the following day. Sergeant ...
... Mick Collins there but Alice Lyons, who was his Private Secretary in the Finance Office, Informed me ... in the direction of the office. I found, however, that from Liffey Street was cordoned off as a raid ...
... on the certificate Hnder Section 8(4).) Moloney Name: (J. Moloney.) Grade: Col. Department/ ent/Office/ Court ...
... the end of that month, I was over in our office in crowe Street Liam Tobin, Frank Saurin, Charlie ... prepared to set fire to everything in the office and sent Dolan, Charlie Byrne and Guilfoyle down ...
... typewritten 'death notices' through the post. "By a wonderful piece of detective work, worthy ...
... . 49-50 Dublin Brigade activities. 51 British raids on Collins's office at 22, Mary Street. 61-53 ...
... O'sullivan. the first office opened by G.H.Q. Intelligence in the city was over fowler's in Crow Street ...
... 6 trusted, as they we working for pay we assumed they would just as readily sell our side as they were selling their own. One of the means adopted and, as far as possible, carried out, was to always secure two such people in the particular Unit or Office that they were operating in, and the first ...
... 46. crossed over towards the old Independent Office and went up on the left-hand side of Middle Abbey Street going towards O'Connell Street. When I reached the narrow Laneway running between Middle Abbey Street and Prince's Street two Auxiliaries stepped out and held Me up, demanding to Know where ...
... 53. member of the staff individually. The Officer in charge of the raid stated, "I distinctly remember meeting a lady in the inner office when we first entered. Where is she now?" The other members of the staff didn't give him any information but started to smile, and after a while somebody ...
WS Ref #: 1575 , Witness: Ted Hayes, Officer IRA, Cork, 1921
... and transmitted to Brigade. H.Q All letters were then resealed and returned to the post office ... was a sorter in the local post office and who collected all items due for delivery from me each evening. He was working in co-operation with C. Allcock, who was an assistant in the post office. When ...
... 11. A reorganisation of Cork lll Brigade took place just prior to the Truce and the area was divided into two brigades. The battalions at the western end of the brigade Bantry, Castletownbere, Schull, Skibbereen With a new battalion organised on Drimoleague were formed into a new brigade Cork V ...
... were: Bandon (1st), Clonakilty (2nd), Dunmanway (3rd), Skibbereen (4th), Bantry (5th ...
WS Ref #: 1714 , Witness: Leo Buckley, Officer IRA, Cork, 1921
... to obtain copies of all coded telegrams passing through Cork Post Office to and from British Army ... the Brigade (with the assistance of Miss Scannel, who was also a Post Office employee) with copies of all coded telegrams passing through the Post Office. When I was arrested, Miss Scannell carried ...
... entailing a subscription by me of 3d per week. At the time, I was employed in the Post Office, Cork ...
... Brigade outside Bantry, where we were welcomed by the Brigade Staff. The Headquarters at the time were ...
... in the code key would be sent through the post. The soldier who collected the post at the G.P.O., Cork ...
WS Ref #: 860 , Witness: Elizabeth McGinley, nee Brennan; Secretary to Arthur Griffith, 1921
... morning to meet the couriers before he went to his own office. He was a Post Office employee and knew ... of years I did not know that. He was transferred to Ireland after the Treaty and worked in the Post Office ... Head- quarters here, reported daily in person to the office. It was to him that the couriers from ...
... at the time from the O'Kennedys of Lindsay Road that P. S. O'Hegarty, who was Secretary of the Post Office, told him to ignore the dismissal notice and come back to his job. He refused ... in England in his hand. An occasional visitor to Art's office was Seán McGrath who was Secretary to the Self ...
... office in Victoria Hotel to show them to him. I don't know what was Art's reaction because I did ... Paddy. I don't remember his surname. He never left his post until Art dismissed him at the end ... opened the door of the office and, seeing Paddy drinking tea, he said angrily to me "Who gave you ...
... 4. office of the Dáil Éireann representative. Of course Art Ó'Briain could not appear there because he was on the run and that is why he had a private office which was known to very few and which was where I worked. Fintan Murphy also used to work in the office in Adam Street. The time Art moved ...
... , that is, in the beginning of January. Arthur's office was in the Billiard Room in the Mansion House. Rory O'connor had his office for a while in the other end of the Billiard Room, in a space which was screened off I think De Valera must have vacated his Mansion House office when he yielded the Presidency of the Cabinet ...
... of Colm Ó'Murchadha who came into the office. "It is the best thing that ever happened. There Won't ...
... Ó'Briain's office in the house of Mrs. Newman, Roger Casement's sister in South Kensington. The British Home ...
... 5. Belgians usually occupied, although he had living quarters in the office in Victoria Square. He never left the Hotel until after the Treaty was signed. This struck me as being very much at variance with the sacrifices and privations that many of the Ministers were enduring at the time in Ireland ...
... to the office on the morning I heard of his death. He had been in Vincent's Nursing Home for a few days ...
WS Ref #: 871 , Witness: James Rowan, Member Fianna Eireann, Dublin, 1913 - 1914; Post Office Telegraph Messenger, 1916
... in the Postal Service during the period of the 1916 Rebellion and was employed in the General Post Office ... ", General Post Office, the D.M.P. man who was on duty in the Public Office came to tell us that he ... , the "Evening Mail", and Provost Office, Dublin Castle. On my return,. I decided to walk down Dame St ...
WS Ref #: 434 , Witness: Charles Dalton, Member 'The Squad', 1921
... the Post Office, which controlled the delivery of correspondence throughout the country, the dispatch ... . was rather limited, due to lack of co-operators. In the Central Telegraph Office, Liam Archer, and in the principal Sorting Office, Paddy Moynihan (nom-de-plume 118) were the most important aides. The Post ...
... . The third raid was on Ballsbridge post office. While operating with the Intelligence Department, we ... at Ballsbridge post office. Having surveyed the collections, I submitted a report which was transferred ... deterred many would-be informers from sending information through the post. As a matter of interest ...
... of post by one of Collins's sorters, the location of the writer, Captain Cecil Lees, was discovered ... in Piaras Beaslai's "Michael Collins") to a friend of his in the War Office, indicating that he had ...
... OF INTELLGENCE AND HIS STAFF. During the daytime Michael Collins worked from an office of his own ... occasions at Paddy O'Shea's house in Lindsay Road. Michael Collins used as his personal office Miss ... Terrace office, which was an ordinary dwelling-house, furnished as such, and in the front bedroom ...
... 21. and these were examined and filed in the Intelligence Office. In some instances the excuses put forward for the non-carrying out of instructions were not considered very satisfactory ... , the name Igoe was mentioned for the first time in our Intelligence Office and inquiries were set afoot ...
... for duty to the Deputy Director of Intelligence, Liam Tobin, at an office in Crow St. which was used ... up an additional office to house the Intelligence Department. This office was located over ...
... French's mails and how they were transmitted, and the plan of the Sorting Office in the Rink, from ... through the War Office. Agents of the latter body were identified by us, as these lived as civilians ...
... 5. The British Military Intelligence Department operated from the Dublin District office at Royal Barracks. Contact was never established with this body other than through the efforts of a typist ... Division (Florrie O'Donoghue) copies of radiograms intercepted were forwarded to our office for decoding ...
... as Press photographs taken at Castle or similar functions. In our Crow St. office we kept ... . Michael Collins was Director of Intelligence. He operated from his own personal office ...
... but did a lot of office work in their flats. I arranged with her to bring me the contents of the waste ... the Brigade office in the Plaza in Gardiner's Row and proceeded to Harcourt St. to meet the officer who ...
... had his commercial offices. I went up the two flights of stairs into his office and was practically in a state of collapse on reaching it. My father's typist was in the office, but I did not speak ...
... was at my observation post at 6 a.m. When the car arrived I formed the opinion that the crew were ...
... firing. Then I saw two Volunteers pass by the window. I recognised Tom Keogh. Dashing beck to my post ...
... in the County Inspector's office. In the Auxiliary Division of the R.I.C. we had assistance from ...
... on instructions from Intelligence Office. ...
... office in the Rink, and was carried out by a party of Volunteers selected by the Vice-Commandant ...
... brought to Mrs. Byrne's house in North Richmond St. and were later conveyed by me to our office in Crow ...
... , Newell rushed in to our office in Crow St. at about eleven o'clock in the morning and stated that he ...
... to a building in Dame St. (No. 38) which was an insurance office, where we were directed to stand against ...
... 26. minutes, as nothing happened, I asked her to put on her hat and coat and accompany me, which she did. We walked out from the office and cut up Clarendon St. as far as St. Stephen's Green, where I parted with my pilot and located the squad. Having told Torn Keogh what happened, I got hold ...
WS Ref #: 564 , Witness: Tom Byrne, Member Irish Brigade, South Africa, 1900 - 1902; Captain IV, Dublin, 1916; Commandant IRA, Dublin 1921
... time on Tuesday evening I got word to get back to the Post Office as there was no further point ... exactly the same way as we cane and met no obstruction en route. we stayed in the Post Office tot two ... space to fire at us. The British made several attempts to get into the "Mail" Office across the road via ...
... 23. the force of. their necessity and let them go. That evening. (Friday) I said to the others, "It is. all over. now. There's no use trying to retreat to the Post Office. Each one of us can now make ... it was the Post Office flag. The only danger I felt was that I would meet some police or detectives ...
... to the Post Office. At the Henry Street entrance, which we never entered, we met Connolly at the door. "Come ... could see thirty or forty yards away the back of the "Independent" Office. I think, in evacuating ...
... food in the Post Office but before we had time to get a rest, I was ordered, with the sane men ...
... 24. who would recognise me. I could see people outside the Gresham and places like that. I passed the Post Office, intending to get up to the Rotunda, but that exit was closed. I returned, on the Gresham Hotel side, and at Findlater Place I turned and went down by the back of the Gresham towards ...
... in the Post Office herself and went out with the wounded to Jervis St. Hospital. I had given her my ...
... to Colonel Broy in his office. He said, "Your name used to come up here every day as visiting Tom Clarke ...
WS Ref #: 1597 , Witness: Thomas P Waters, Officer, IV & IRA Belfast, Cork & Tipperary, 1921
... ROINN COSANTA. BUREAU OF MILITARY HISTORY, 1913-21 STATEMENT BY WITNESS. DOCUMENT NO. W.S. 1597. Witness Thomas P. Waters, 5, Harbour Hill, Cobh, Co. CORK. Identity. Captain, Bantry (Co. Cork ... . Bantry Coy., I. Vols., Co. Cork, 1914-17. 'B' Coy., Belfast Battn., Irish Vols., 1918-20. Tipperary ...
... STATEMENT BY THOMAS P. WATERS, 5. Harbour Hill. Cobh. Co. Cork. I am a native of Bantry, Co. Cork ... in Bantry, and on returning there I commenced to get to work on the job. At this time, Co. Cork ... a few of us in Bantry from this scourge of factionism, mainly through the columns of his newspaper ...
... O'Hegarty, later 0/C of Cork No. 1 Brigade. We left Bantry on bicycles before noon. We were badly ... or eight miles north east of Bantry, where we met up with O"Hegarty and his party. Seán told me to take my men back to Bantry, as there Wa5 nothing doing. I did so, and for the remainder ...
... 5. On our return to Bantry, we had to put up with a great deal of insults from those people Who ... in the Bantry district, made no arrests. We were simply ignored and insulted. Following the Rising, when ... soon put these showmen in their place. How true my words turned out to be subsequently. I left Bantry ...
... 6. local sergeant of the R.I.C., a man named Storey. He asked me to account for my movements since I left Bantry. I refused to tell him anything, and asked him was I a ticket-of-leave man. I ... by Seán O'Sullivan of Kealkil, Bantry, and was the centre of all Volunteer activities in Belfast ...
... in Ireland in 1798. This was the situation in Bantry town during the early years of the 1914-18 war ...