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WS Ref #: 1443 , Witness: Michael Fitzpatrick, Officer IRA, Carlow, 1921
... 7. positions at the corners and O'Connell knocked at the post office door. The Postmaster, Patrick Murphy, came down, but was very nervous. O'Connell told him he wanted a letter from the office addressed to a Miss Fitzpatrick, Dublin. The Post-master Post-master handed out the letter and we came ...
... was down in Myshall with him, and that he posted a letter in the post office. O'Connell said that letter ... , O'Neill, Captain Maher and myself came down to raid the post office for the letter. We took ...
WS Ref #: 1547 , Witness: Michael Murphy, Commandant IRA, Cork, 1921
... ; this bag was called for to the local post office by an R.I.C. man each day. It was observed that an P.I.C. man from Union Quay barrack went to the local post office each day to collect this bag ... about their mails. They had been captured many times by our lads in raids on postmen and post offices ...
... to post (to see the names and addresses) but Quinn preferred to do the posting himself. I now decided ...
... Intelligence office. On many occasions Conroy had passed us on information of very great value ...
... 34. "Cork Examiner" Office raided. On 28th December 1920, by orders of the brigade, men of the 1st and 2nd Battalions entered the newspaper premises of the "Cork Examiner" and broke up the printing machines with sledge hammers. At the time, the "Examiner" was an the habit of publishing news ...
... , was shot and killed. On l1fth February 1921, a civilian employee in the office of the British ...
WS Ref #: 191 , Witness: Joseph Reynolds, Senior Officer, Fianna Eireann, 1914 - 1921
... the formation of the “Fianna Post”. This activity related to the collection and delivery of letters in the Dublin Area, on the lines of the system operating in the Post Office. Circulars were sent ... they would be collected at certain periods and delivered at charges obtaining in the Post Office ...
... shop to shop and eventually got into the Post Office. The first man I saw there was Captain Michael Staines who brought me to Pearse. I delivered the dispatch to Pearse who on reading it said “good ... and the work of a scout in the area. I had been several times in the Post Office, several times in the Four ...
... to the General Post Office. The place was barricaded when I arrived. I got in through a shop in Henry ...
... Adjt. General. Subject (a) Fianna Eireann 1915. (b) Easter 1916; 1st Battn. area. (c) Post Rising re ...
... Battalion Areas are defined, be sent direct to G.H. COMMUNICATIONS. As the British Post is unsatisfactory ...
... Director of Finance .. Barney Mellows These held office until Easter 1916. ...
... Also in August 1915 the Dublin Fianna was organised into a Battalion of nine Companies. The following officers were appointed and held office up to the 1916 Rising. a. Battalion Staff. Commandant .. Eamon Martin (also Director of Organisation, G.H.Q.). Vice-Comdt. .. Seán Heuston (also Director ...
WS Ref #: 661 , Witness: Luke Duffy, Vice-Commandant IRA, Roscommon, 1921
... to the village of Loughlinn and raided the Post Office there and took three Post Office cycles. The Post Mistress abused us so we took her cycle also, but only brought it a short distance ...
... was clerk to the County Inspector and the other was clerk to the District Inspector's Office ...
WS Ref #: 1041 , Witness: Thomas Doyle, Centre IRB, Enniscorthy, 1912; Officer IV, Wexford, 1916
... of whiskey very often. The officer in the post office would send for Daly every time one would come, show ... leave the post office, happy. O'Reilly was a bit of an artist. He would get a dark blanket, draw ... to the office also. He would go his rounds every day, delivering letters to all the huts ...
... rashers to the Dublin men. When the hamper would arrive, Phil would be sent for by the officer in the post office, it would be brought to Phil's hut and be then would give us our share, along with our own parcels. The post office was in charge of a British officer and three prisoners, Tommy Doyle, ...
... where he was employed in the Post Office. He came to Enniscorthy and lived with Larry de Lacey ...
... they a rrived, they took over the post office and the police barracks. Commandant Galligan gave orders to block ...
... poor old Commandant was laid to rest in the graveyard beside the church. The Last Post was sounded ... a bookmaker's office in Martin Walsh's saddler shop. It was illegal at this time but, whenever the police ...
... that he heard the telephone going in Jones's. O'Neill was sent down to cut the wires on the main post ... on to Jones's house. When O'Neill was going up the post, he thought he saw another an going ...
... . Roche's instructions were to post one outside the churches in Ferns and around the district; he was to give me one to post on the Shannon chapel. I did so, and that evening when I got home, I was told ...
... . Sinnott was appointed to issue all passes. An office was also opened an the old police barracks ... of it. A recruiting office was also opened in the old barracks but very few turned up. Then a rumour went out ...
... delivered by the postman who went out with the first post, was held over for Morrissey to deliver ...
... Whelan ) brothers Johnny, Patsy, Peter & Aidan Coady (brothers. Jim Brien (clerk in the railway office ...
... to work in his office and, after a while, all the Enniscorthy prisoner ...
... 71. did, he would have thrown me out. Whenever anything happened in town, he would go on a big booze. The day the Treaty was signed, he said to me, "I never thought that they would give in to that crowd of bastards". The following day, when T went up to the office, Ned Warren was missing. He went ...
... him up to the office and keep him engaged while Tyrrell would get out the handles. When Mackins would ...
WS Ref #: 1068 , Witness: Michael Brennan, OC East Clare Brigade IRA, 1921
... 40. extensive building while the money was collected from the Sorting Office. We came and left on bicycles and all the men were masked while in the post Office except myself. At this stage we ... then that the post office raid was only one of the causes for my removal. The various instances in which we ...
... shock. Through Jack Coughlan, who worked in Limerick Post Office, I arranged a system whereby Lucas ...
... 100. On leaving Kilrush we marched eight or ten miles to the Cree district. On the way two column men (Joe Clancy and Martin McNamara) cantered up to me riding donkeys they bad collected on the road and inquiried if a mounted advance guard was all right with me. It Was; so they took post in advance ...
... point on the map behind the military line they were to take post ready to cover our retreat, if we ...
... . office one night to find an old friend, Dr. Charles McDonnell, waiting to see me. He told me he had ...
... a parade which was being inspected by medical officers sent down by the British War Office ...
... Morgan, kept pressing the Home Office, but we weren't vary hopeful and our preparations for Christmas ...
... . The physical strain was too great after his office life and he died in his first fight. At Woodcock ...
WS Ref #: 1185 , Witness: William Reardon, Officer IRA, Cork, 1921
... 4. activity in the area as the only such post involved was Rathcoole R.I.C. barracks. This was destroyed by members of the Rathcoole Company. In August, 1920, the office of the Income Tax collector ... . The collector Jack Driscoll lived at Clonbannin where he had his office. In company with Neilus Healy ...
WS Ref #: 1210 , Witness: Michael Carroll, Member IRA, Dublin, 1921
... 9. were detailed to raid the Rathmines Post Office for telephone equipment at 7.30 a.m. Two ... the required goods. As the office was manned by military, Stephen and I held up men (with the equipment) outside the Post Office. I proceeded With my bike and telephone gear to the Q.M., Seán Tumbleton ...
WS Ref #: 1280 , Witness: Eamon Broy, IRA Intelligence Agent in British Police, Dublin Castle
... and equipped post office was set up inside Trinity College, with a posting receptacle from which collections ... privilege did not need to be tapped where the "franker" was on the Orange side. The Post Office Acts ... to the entrance gate of T.C.D., and a head telegraphic office in College Green within a few minutes ...
... . Soon further messages told of the occupation of the General Post Office, Jacob's biscuit factory ... Office a couple of minutes after midday on Easter Monday by telephone from the Central Police Telephone Office in Dublin Castle. It stated that a party of Volunteers, accompanied by an ambulance corps ...
... made by the Post Office to tap the correspondence of its members". Dr. Mahaffy, Provost of Trinity ...
... all introduced. Following a raid by the I.R.A. on the Rink Post Office in Rutland Square, Dublin ...
... 12. was not there, or was absent from the office. the list of candidates and employees for Government work, now shown to me, is a duplicate copy of one which was typed in the office at Great ... , 1919, the accused was entered as "Messman and Detective office". which means that he would do ...
... Empire. The four winds of heaven blowing the French out of Bantry Bay in 1796 was quoted ...
... would be quite capable of reporting that there was a light on in the office at night, the secret office being on the first floor. It was a semi-circular office, with maw windows and with blinds only ... the shooting, Sergeant Kerr of the Carriage Office, who was a single man and sleeping in the building ...
... come to the office asking for particulars, in writing, of Suspect So-and-So. As a matter of fact, not very long afterwards, the books were taken to the Castle. Soon after I joined the Detective Office I ... . From 1915 to 1917, I was frequently doing office duty in the Castle, and Kavanagh was doing duty ...
... 110. After a few days, I was summoned one evening late in January to the Commissioner's office ... office stationery and might have been typed in the Detective office in Great Brunswick St., except ... of the police offices, and could not, therefore, have been made in any police office. I again admitted ...
... to the G.Division office, it was after ten p.m. and a G.man was on duty in the office, who knew ... . I told the man on duty that we had not got that code in the office upstairs and that the only people who bad it were the R.I.C. who had an office open day and night in the Castle. He asked, me would I ...
... 111. gradually transferred from the Great Brunswick St. office to Dublin Castle, under Inspector ... to company him to the Commissioner's office at the Castle. With an Inspector, we went to the ante-room of the Commissioner's office. Superintendent Purcell was directed to go to the Commissioner's ...
... there. When he left lie would lock the door and hang the key in the office. The accused declines ... at the Detective Office, Great Brunswick Street, Dublin, and was stationed there on the 11th March, 1920 ... the report that it was so forwarded. Attached to this report is a duplicate copy, which is an office copy ...
... 21. index clerk in the Detective department. At the end of October he was promoted to Sergeant and then came into my office. He remained on that duty until the 17th February. On that date I arrested the accused at the Castle: I told him I was arresting him on a charge of giving away official ...
... in the Detective Office, and he in the ordinary course of his duty would submit it t the Chief Commissioner ... Office. I see that on the 23rd and 24th February, 1920, Detective Officer Broy was the typist. I see ...
... March, 1920, D.O. Broy was for duty in the Detective Office and typing. I never gave anyone ... in the Commissioner's Office. (Signed) "K". The accused declines to cross-examine this witness. 12th Witness Witness ...
... in the country who did not come to Dublin frequently. The R.I.C. had a similar office in the Castle, and they had specialists there dealing with suspects. When I first joined the Detective office there were several others employed an day in the office along with me. Towards the end of 1915 the G. Division ...
... in the! "political" office in the Castle and lived in the Phibsborough area. I told him that we were "looking ... . at all. So Fagan and I returned to the Detective Office, but Fagan was afraid for some time ... in the Castle Detective Office and all day pressmen kept calling, asking if it was a fact ...
... 67. from 11 a.m. for the rest of the day. in this office were retained most of the documents ... and with a similar failure. But for the modernisation of that office, a person of my short service would not have ... way through force of circumstances in this office. I began to consider if it would be any value ...
... for him to go into the office and read the record books himself. From ten o'clock each night until six ... in the detective office, and that man had the cipher, in case telegrams arrived. It frequently happened ... that, in the uniformed B.Division, which did duty around that office, the Inspector on night duty ...
... out, Joe Kavanagh was in the office at the Castle. The D.M.P. headquarters; store. was in the Castle ... Brunswick St. He nearly fell, laughing, knowing the mentality in the G. Division office and knowing Mick. He ... were drunk or mad. Ha asked me what did Mick look like in the office, and I said: "He looked like ...
... up in Arbour Hill, that Arbour Hill was under the direct control of the War Office and that the Prison Commandant compelled Auxiliaries and everyone else to dump all weapons in his office before being ... to the office where the Commandant handed me over to a British military officer and party of soldiers ...
... was then a Detective Officer, was employed in Detective Office typing etc. This entry is in my handwriting ... on it, and no person had any authority to do so. Until I saw this copy, of the report in the Commissioner's office I ... was employed in detective office and ...
... 25. and the authorities wanted to modernise the organisation by means of typewriters, card indexes etc. Otherwise; I would not have have been put into that office as I was very junior in the service ... . The results of all these observations were carefully noted in a set of books in the office. Every ...
... in the mornings, devoting most of his time to the political section. Then he went to his office ... time the reports were in handwriting, but when I took over the office the majority were typed by me ...
... Green authorities). Numerous messages arrived from the Central Police Telephone office regarding ... ' office from the Irish Volunteers by British forces, which ended by saying: "they are now carrying out ...
... on leave1 some armed with rifles and some without any weapons, began to drift in to the Detective Office ... no secret of the importance of his calling. Many members of the public called at the Detective Office ...
... arrived at the Detective Office, I Great Brunswick St. at about 6 p.m. Detective Sergeant Fagan and I were the only officers present, Fagan in one office and I in another. So we were ordered to arrest de ...
... 54. the Chief Inspector for giving him the outdoor job of arresting after having completed a day's work in the office, he not being on the "political" duty staff. Members of that body would come ... to ring up Superintendent Brien at the Detective Office to say that we had not seen "that man". He ...
... to do. He said he could not afford that much time away from the office. So he took some photos at random of pedestrians who happened to be passing on the street, returned to the office and developed them ...
... or otherwise; coincidence for example two Sinn Féiners, one of whom is employed in an insurance office ... in the same insurance office and, by some evil chance, visits a young lady of his acquaintance ...
... charge of all office duty at Brunswick St. building and so worked close to Purcell. He was a decent ... them, I was bound to be blamed as having been in charge of the "political" office at the time ...
... asked me if that was my key. I replied it was a key of the Detective Office and that Superintendent ... . My cell in Arbour Hill Prison was at the corner nearest the Prison commandant's office and had ...
... , by a machine in the Great Brunswick St. office and, therefore, most likely by me. They were afraid ... , which had certainly been typed in the office during the past year. The similarity consisted ...
... thought it safer to go into hiding and went straight from his office at closing hour to a south ... lodgings and office were raided by Scotland Yard officers in a vain search for him. ...
... to the Castle, and put in our Company Office. I identify some of the documents shown to me as being ... Office. Great Brunswick Street. The other members of G. Division did not use this room except when ...
... by the fact that I was: in charge of the office from which the documents were taken and, consequently ...
... being received into the office in which I am employed on that date. I was informed that they Came ...
... 18. typing. He was also employed on the 17th and 19th. March, 1920. I do not remember handing this report to anyone to type, but Broy was the official typist and there is scarcely any doubt that he would do it. These reports were typed in a upstairs at the office in Great Brunswick Street ...
... telegraph by the police in, say, Crumlin or Clontarf, as well as by the Detective Office. I was appointed ...
... was engaged in the arms, ammunition and explosives permit office in Dublin Castle where a loyalist from ...
... record books in the Detective Office were brought into use. The books were taken to the Castle and, I ...
... . Detective Office. When the Volunteers. began to reorganise in 1917, I gradually returned to them ...
... he was too busy in the office. However, he had to come. ...
... March, 1917, when I invariably found myself alone in the office in Great Brunswick St. ...
... of the Tivoli Theatre (now Irish Press office) and that we would meet him there when we had ...
... 87. newly appointed on political duty and was far too simple a man for a job like that. He carried out the raid mechanically according to orders, arresting only those he was told to arrest. Collins informed me that Inspector McFeely went in to the office where he was engaged and, not knowing ...
... . They bundled him into the Detective office where he was, of course, identified and released ...
... 94. and getting the decode. I said: "NO". I went to the R.I.C office in the Castle. The Head Constable took the message from me and brought it to an inner room to somebody else. The decipher was brought out to me after a couple of minutes, but this did not make me any wiser as to how the code ...
... opened the political office and opened the secret small room, built into the wall, which contained ...
... . on the following day. I thought no more about it, and went back to the Detective. Office, where I had to do ...
... . These telephone messages were bound in book form for the week, as was the usaa1 practice in the office. Some ...
... 107. Every vestige of political duty was immediately removed from the Brunswick St. office to the CaStle, except, strange to say, the issuing of permits for and control of arms' permits. This had been overlooked. I continued to meet Collins almost every night during this time and, of course, had ...
... 112. My doubts were soon settled, for Purcell emerged from the Commissioner's office trembling and with his face as white as a sheet. In a quavering voice, he told me I was to be arrested for giving out the documents to the Sinn Féiners. The Inspector, although a loyalist, was also shocked ...
... was intended to prove that I was in charge of the secret political office and had typed the copies ...
... , Detective-Sergeant Patrick McCarthy would type sometimes after normal office hours, O'Reilly ...
... to the Detective Office, Great Brunswick St. (now Pearse St.) to be paid off and collect my belongings ...
... 132. the indoor confinement but, by the time I reached College Green, I could hardly move my legs, as I had lost practically all muscular power through want of sufficient exercise. It was the duty of the man who got the office job on my arrest to act as pay officer. He was a loyalist and had ...
... had an office at 22, Mary St. I. could not see anything remarkable in that as they had previously ...
... it in such a manner as to give the impression that the Detective Office had been a revolutionary centre all ...
... who, we learned afterwards, was an official in the War Office, came in for his nightly practice ...
... , 1919, the accused is entered as "Detective Office and Mess". He would also do typing, and at that time ...
... that on the 14th May, 1920, D.O. Broy was then typing in the Detective Office, Brunswick Street ...
WS Ref #: 1299 , Witness: Christopher (Kit) Farrell, Officer IRA, Dublin, 1921
... of Auxies call each morning (except Sundays) at Ballsbridge Post Office to collect mails for their Head ... . Two enter Post Office for mails, remainder stand in groups in vicinity of car. All are armed ... 11. Office, Drury Street, on a Sunday morning. At this meeting the situation was explained to us ...
... Road, at cul-de-sac almost facing Post Office entrance, two men armed with revolvers and one hand grenade, just casually chatting. At Tram sheds below Post Office, two more men, out of sight, also ...
... of Auxiliaries. This attack took place at Ballsbridge Post Office on 14th December 1920. Ballsbridge ...
... the enemy retreats into the Post Office. W. Fitzgerald reaches car, dumps the mail sacks into car ...
... decided this was my man and I followed him to an office over the Ancient Concert Rooms, Pearse Street. I opened the door of the office into which the man had entered, and I alsowent into the office ... of the office. The man I had trailed was Charlie Dalton. My duties here included reading the newspapers ...
... and moved quietl3 across to the office, taking the man with us. On entering the office we held up the staff and disconnected the telephone. After this, one of our men left the office, opened the big ...
... the place.. In the office I pointed a gun at the person I thought might be the chief clerk, demanding ... , then obliged, leaving two men in charge of the office. I left the office taking with rue the clerk ...
... the guardroom guardroom and a sentry post. About 50 yards from this post towards Leonard's Corner is another ...
... to the office. He continued to follow the men. I learned afterwards that the first man we trailed that day ...