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  • WS Ref #: 443 , Witness: Frank Neville, Captain IRA, Cork, 1921

    • ... passing that road continuously, as well as there being an R.I.C. post; in the village. The last seizure ... made arrangements for more boats to cross Bantry Bay to the Castletownbere side, There was another ...

    • ... apparatus from Upton Post Office and Kinsale Junction Station. The wires were also tapped ...

    • ... Quay and a raid for mails too1 place at Upton Post Office. There was nothing important found ...

    • ... the war started and Redmond offered the services or the Volunteers to the British War Office ...

    • ... Station informed us that there was a number of documents in an office there which had apparently been ...

  • WS Ref #: 922 , Witness: James W Cunningham, Member IRB, Glasgow, 1918; Officer IRA, Glasgow, 1921

    • ... and we had to be very careful in choosing our despatch post office in case some of our men were ... not avail of his offer. Neither did I go back to the same Post Office with the parcel when I got ... " to go through. Possibly it is hard to believe but the parcel post was our main channel and some ...

    • ... 3. parcel in the little office in Donegal, to which it was consigned, and blowing up the whole place, or perhaps some prying R.I.C. man getting suspicious and catching my friend out and also our dispatch organisation which I had more or less jeopardised. As I stated previously I was chosen to go ...

    • ... to be an office. I was there for at least half an hour alone in the dark, and I was congratulating myself ...

  • WS Ref #: 399 , Witness: Mary Josephine Mulcahy, Wife of General Richard Mulcahy; Secretary Cumann na mBan, 1915 - 1916; Courier to Wexford, 1916

    • ... 14. The Sean T. said, with that great air of his: "Would you like to come into the Post Office ... by someone in the Post Office that Jim was to report to the G.P.O. immediately whet' ho got back. I know ... of the Poet Office. I was looking for Bean MacDermott. I was left on my own and looked exactly like ...

    • ... shooting, and people would go off the Street end come beck again. We got into the Post Office at the front. We saw Seen MacDermott in a small room off the main office and he made us come in and sit down I ... that was in those places was commandeered and brought into the Post Office and receipts were given ...

    • ... the Post Office, a couple of horses were shot and they retreated. There was nothing going on when we ... had never seen our tricolour flying like that before. We came to the Post Office and saw this big man ... , watching. You could not got them to move off. We came to the Poet Office without being stopped ...

    • ... on Eednesdey evening when we were coming back. There was a lot of firing. It was not at the Post Office but at Liberty Hall. When we got to the top of Dorset Street, we found that there were British ...

    • ... occurred to me to do so, as my mind was bent on getting to the Post Office. I turned back then, when ...

    • ... 21. On Saturday, we heard that' the Post Office was burned out and that they had. surrendered, but we did not know, It must have been about 11 o'clock on Sunday morning when Louise Gavan Duffy called in to our house to hear what news we had. She told us then who had been killed - that O'Rahilly had ...

    • ... of the Poet Office. It Was nearly the same then as it is now, although it has since been done up new ...

    • ... to the wives, of three British officers. On the day the Volunteers seized the Poet Office they arrested ...

    • ... of town. The piece began to be surrounded. We had seen Jim in the Poet Office, but wary little. We came ...

  • WS Ref #: 803 , Witness: Michael Sheerin, Officer IV and IRA, Derry, Tyrone and Donegal, 1914 - 1921

    • ... was probably prevented by his duties in the Post Office from being at the place of appointment within ... on this night, where they captured McGandy, took his revolver and post-bag from him and dumped him ... notice that two armed R.I.C. men were placed on guard at night at the quayside of the General Post ...

    • ... thoroughfare leading into Guildhall Place. We turned to the left into Post Office Street and dropped two men to cover our retreat. About fifty yeards further on we turned left around the Post Office corner ... with their backs against the Post Office wall and Wiseman was talking to them. We surprised them. We were ...

    • ... , was an official in Derry Post Office and had access to the postal votes. He arranged to collect all ...

    • ... post and often did police patrols on the sane beat. They ignored us and we ignored them. The unit had ... with R.I.C. men of the Leckey Road post and other stations belonging to their own particular part ... an offer of rifles and ammunition from the Leckey Road post provided we gave an undertaking ...

    • ... for this particular night, would bring along with him a post-bag and meet us at the Technical Schools about 200 yards ... . After waiting for over an hour we went home. The following morning his coat, revolver and post-bag ...

    • ... by the 4th Battalion. En route we had a crack at the Glenties post. Rosbeg was in the 3rd Battalion area ...

    • ... to Ireland to take part in the struggle. The Brig was still keen on eliminating the Glenties post ...

    • ... 29. Subsequently we discovered that we outnumbered them at this stage. The left section had to be withdrawn to the rear to cover our south flank. Reinforcements were expected from the Glenties post on our right. This did not materialise but the right section was withdrawn to the rear to cover ...

    • ... he was my platoon commander. He was not removed from that office or suspended although he probably ...

  • WS Ref #: 873 , Witness: Charles Browne, Officer IRA, Cork, 1921

    • ... lower than the building on its immediate right, which was the village Post Office, and it was felt ... June it was decided to eliminate the enemy post at Carrigadrohid. This barracks was now garrisons ... of June 9th a force of about twenty-five men invested the building, while ten men entered the Post ...

    • ... Intelligence Officers at Macroom Post Office, Mr. Curtin and Miss Rice, succeeded in deciphering enemy ...

    • ... - 18 - An effort was made by the attackers from their position on the roof of the Post Office to blow a breach in the gable wan of the barracks; the gables of both build- ings were separated from each other by about two feet, the intervening space being filled with barbed wire, but the guncotton ...

    • ... - 27 - The Intelligence Service was given a close overhaul and personnel were established in the Post Office Service, on the Railway, in Williams' Hotel, Macroom, from where the enemy got most of his kitchen supplies, and in the Banks and various shops which he frequented. The Engineering, Scouting ...

    • ... , Bandon, Dunmanway, Bantry and Killarney converged on the area from Macroom on the East ...

    • ... at close of fight G - Point of where IRA man was seen running CP - Command Post. OP - Observation Post ...

    • ... . An observation post placed on Rahouna Hill, having a good view of the road, was in touch with the command post ... Column, with the Command post, was on the Northern side. The enemy did not appear on that day and when ... , the signallers leaving for the observation post at the same time. Through some mischance these ...

    • ... - 31 - Battalion Officer now left in the town. He resigned his post as Quartermaster and became O.C. Town and did very useful work in that capacity up to the Truce. Richard Browne was appointed ... , unfortunate in these, the enemy failing to appear on each occasion and, beyond an attack on a post ...

    • ... ON ENEMY POST AT TOWN HALL. On February 18th an attack was made on an enemy post at the Billiard Room ...

    • ... - 26 - the enemy, this time at Union Quay Barracks, Cork. He was shadowed one night as he left this post and was shot dead at Torytop Lane. ENEMY RAIDS. In September raids occurred for the Battalion O.C., the Vice O.C. and the writer and also for the O.C. 'B' Company and it was then decided ...

    • ... four hundred yards of an enemy post and in plain view of the occupants. The inmates, some of whom were ...

    • ... - 16 - RAID FOR ARMS. In May, 1920, occurred a raid for arms on a Solicitor's office at the Square, Macroom. Information was received that the place was likely to hold arms belonging to some landed ... .C. Battalion Training, were detailed to raid. Accordingly, the office staff was held up and one ...

    • ... should be opened on this post and had in contemplation similar attacks on like posts in other parts ...

    • ... block at the Western end before fire was opened each man waited at his post for the signal to fire ...

    • ... the road between their post at Carrigadrohid and Macroom at irregular intervals. With Michael Murphy ...

    • ... - 44 - informed by him of the plans for the attack on Macroom on the evening of May 15th. This was Whit Saturday and an attack on this post was to be carried out in conjunction with similar attacks in other areas of the Division. I returned with his instructions to Battalion H.Q. at Delaneys ...

    • ... of Auxiliaries at the Cross and got clear, mainly through the good office of John Murphy, a shopkeeper ...

  • WS Ref #: 1048 , Witness: Sean Murnane, Centre IRB, Newmarket, 1911; Officer IRA, Clare, 1921

    • ... placed in positions along the street outside the Post Office while about a dozen entered the building ... entered the premises. The Post Office staff were engaged in dispatching money to the outlying sub ... was the raid on Limerick Post Off ice on New Year's Day 1920. This job was also under the personal charge ...

    • ... COPY. H.Q. E. Clare Bde. To Capt. J. Murnane 1. You are appointed Acting Q.M. of the E. Clare Bde. and will carry out all the duties of that office pending the sanction of the Brigade Council and G.H.Q. By Order M.J. Brennan G.O.C. ...

    • ... STATEMENT OF SEÁN MURNANE, Stonehall, Newmarket-on-Fergus, Co. dare. (formerly 0/C. 1st Battalion, East Clare Brigade and Quartermaster of that Brigade.) I am a farmer living at the above address and I also hold the post of Rate Collector for the Newmarket area. My farm consists of about 40 acres ...

    • ... me of this appointment. Subsequently this appointment was made substantive and I remained in the post ...

    • ... was then a strong R.I.C. post. In addition to hoping to capture this barracks by using the newly arrived bombs ...

    • ... to Limerick. I was assigned to a post at a window in the house of people called McInerney, which ...

  • WS Ref #: 1166 , Witness: Patrick Lyons, Captain IRA, Kerry, 1921

    • ... barracks visited Lixnaw regularly to collect mail from the Post Office, returning to Ahabeg after a couple ... of the patrol, when they reached the village, was for three of their party to go to the Post Office ... later, the post was evacuated after which it was burned down by members of the Limaw Company. Among ...

    • ... one of their. men to the Post Office to report the incident to Listowel R.I.C. barracks. ...

    • ... on Ballybunion R.I.C. Barracks, the Battalion Staff decided to attack and burn down an R.I.C. post at Lixnaw. The post was a low brick building and was manned by six R.I.C. Our plan was to occupy the Parish Hall (which was next door to the barracks) on a Saturday night and to rush the R.I.C. post ...

    • ... Parish Court. He was responsible for the issue of summonses and other duties attached to the post ...

  • WS Ref #: 1221 , Witness: Padraig Ua Floinn, Captain IRA, Tipperary, 1921

    • ... at a time. On one occasion the parcel burst in Fethard Post Office and the ammunition fell on to the floor. The Post Office official sent for me and allowed me to take the broken parcel and the ammunition ... and the ammunition in the cavity in the book then parcel it up and post it to me, In this way I ...

  • WS Ref #: 1237 , Witness: Patrick Lynch, Officer IRA, Waterford, 1921

    • ... , systematic raiding of post offices for mails was begun. Mails were captured en route from the post office ... of the correspondence used be put in a sack aid thrown in to some small country post office at night ...

    • ... . The first intimation we had of the Rising was from bulletins posted UP in the local post office ...

    • ... -6- awaited the arrival of the R.I.C. As so often happened to us in the next few years, the object of our ambush never turned up. Disappointed at the turn of events after our long journey, Gullinane and I, with two Ballymacarbery men, raided the local post office and took away the mails intended ...

    • ... -21- we dumped our arms but, even though unarmed, we were continually being harried from pillar to post by Free State troops. As a result, I was unable to return with safety to my home in Dungarvan until April, 1924. SIGNED: Padraig Loingsig (Padraig 0 Loingsigh) DATE: Sept 6th 1955 BUREAU ...

    • ... raided the local Income Tax office in Dungarvan and then went on by car to Lismore, arriving ... the country where we burned them. We returned safely to Dungarvan. Dungarvan - raid on office of Petty Sessions Clerk: On New Year’s Day, 1920, seven of us carried out a raid on the office ...

  • WS Ref #: 1441 , Witness: Nan Nolan, Officer Cumann na mBan, Carlow, 1919 - 1921

    • ... 10. to phone the message to the post office in Carlow for thorn to send to the military, and were not all the post officials loyal? So the message was sent requesting the military to come out and search the wood. The young boy in Carlow Post Office who was given the message to deliver ...