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  • WS Ref #: 300 , Witness: Henry S Murray, Officer IV and IRA, Dublin, 1914 - 1921

    • ... Distillery l8(2) General Post Office 11 College of Surgeons 1 Four Courts 12 262(1) Notes: (1) The officers ... for the latter post. ...

    • ... Lieutenant C. O'Grady "C" Company. N.C.O.'s and men. 16 Grand Total: 18 General Post Office. N.C.O ...

    • ... and the garrison of the latter post under Seamus Murphy falling in behind the whole body proceeded ...

  • WS Ref #: 501 , Witness: T.J. McArdle, Secretary, Department of Local Government, Dail Eireann, 1919

    • ... to Registrar General's Office. POST TRUCL Date of appointment. Thomas Dunne 16th July 1921 Miss ... Barry 14th February 1922. STOCKTAKERS. PEE-TRUCE S. O'Leary 9th January 1921 POST-TRUCE 3. Keegan 3rd ...

    • ... 35. Office accommodation. The provision of suitable office accommodation was essential to the successful working of the Dáil Department. of Local Government. The office required to be one that would ... was reasonably successful. The first office was. in No. 6 Harcourt St., but it had to be abandoned ten ...

    • ... 39. out clearly when the office; In Up. O'Connell St, was raided. The search for a new office ... of transferring the pepers to the new office then arose. It was decided to ia the office ... the The only flutter about the safety of the office: arose after a raid: made on an office in Mary St ...

    • ... carrying the office' papers in: sacks across their shoulders, they met the raiding party gong back to pay the offices another visit. The staff from the Co. Council offices came down to the office ... the office in Up. O'Connell St. was considered a very unsafe place. It was right over a shop in which ...

    • ... idered to be worth following. But from time to time the safety of the office in Wicklow st ... receives from friendly neighbours. Even in the shops in Wicklow St. adjacent to the office those strange ... , when the Minister left the office disguised to the satisfaction of himself and the staff ...

    • ... 130. the loss in this connection may run to six figures. to the extent of £1,000 was robbed from a paymaster of the Dublin County Council who was on his way to pay wages. Many dishonest seizures have taken place of monies from Post Offices representing collection of Dog Tax. The loss ...

    • ... were issued to the local authorities, of Ireland from the Chief Secretary's Office, Dublin Castle ... guarantees asked for in the letters from the Chief Secretary's Office and the British Local Government ...

    • ... and as no more than seven months had elapsed since the termination of the first world war the post-war ...

    • ... These were the main activities since the substitute Minister accepted control. The substitute Minister stated that it was probably felt that the issue of drastic instructions to the new municipal bodies might have the effect of causing the post- ponement of the local government elections which wore ...

    • ... , as follows:- "You will kindly forward to this Department, if possible by return of post ...

    • ... was appointed as assistant Minister on 4th December 1920. On arrival in the office the substjbute ...

    • ... 20. on policy to the new bodies and yet felt the importance of getting in touch with them if possible before the statutory meetings in order to strengthen in their minds the idea that they were coming into office under the auspices and supervision of the Dáil, the substitute iiinister issued ...

    • ... from the Chief Secretary's Office, Dublin Castle, to each County and County Borough Council ...

    • ... on the stairs. The foist of the footsteps ceased. 0n the landing outside the door of the office ...

    • ... in other directions and were known to come into the office in the morning after having been out all ...

    • ... . They assisted in the dictation of letters. There was a generous spirit in the office. No n asked another ...

    • ... 43. assistant Minister brought the decrees back to the office, still., chuckling, and told the staff to keep than safely. The decrees were deposited in the. store in Up. O'Connell St. and were returned to the solicitors. when the fight was over. Messengers are mentioned above as part of the staff ...

    • ... " campaign to the Campaign of the Council and: to transmit them to the head office of the Department (f ...

    • ... and. ensure a general re-organisation of local government administration. The office of inspector ...

    • ... of these forms, (3) that (a) no lists of ratepayers were to be drawn up in the Council office ...

    • ... 62. for the purpose of appending a proper signature to the papers that he sent to the Dáil Department. Another official was suspected of being responsible for the arrest of two of the Department's Inspectors. Each of them was arrested shortly after a visit to the official's office. The dire ...

    • ... not from office the appointment of their successors. did not receive the sanction. of the English Local ...

    • ... that the office might be abolished,, or the number of Relieving Officers reduced by amalgamation ...

    • ... DÁIL DEPARTMENT OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT. OFFICE STAFF. PRE-TRUCE. Miss O'Hegarty Date of appointment Seumas Kelly 19th February 1920. Frank Kelly April Sean Saunders T.J. McArdle September 1920 Edward Merriman 25th Miss Kathleen Bevan 13th December Maurice Killeen 1st Week, Jany. 1921. Miss Lily ...

    • ... office? 10. Does your body undertake to give the fullest consideration to all schemes of economy ...

    • ... Government Board. Elected in June 1920, the County Council came into office at a time when, owing ...

    • ... . To remain in office was a tacit acceptance of the new situation and all. duties it involved. At the moment ...

    • ... . Some rate collectors on the other hand, realising the responsibility of their office ...

  • WS Ref #: 754 , Witness: Richard Smith, Officer IV and IRA, Cork, 1914 - 1921

    • ... -23- other stores for the R.I.C. at the railway station and destroyed them. An armed party of the Charleville Company seized the local mails between the railway station and the town (Post Office ... Club, as it was rumoured it was to be taken over as a garrison post. The Company 0.C. and about ...

    • ... from the Post Office. The patrol sometimes cycled and at other times went on foot. Paddy O'Brien ...

    • ... -22- of six came by a different street and got to the Post Office alright. After they collected the mail five of t1e patrol returned by the same route, therefore did not pass where Paddy and the lads were waiting for them. One of the patrol - a Constable Quinn - who had stopped at a shop ...

    • ... military Post (Lord Kenmare's residence), the local O.C. (Mick Geary) had obtained information ...

  • WS Ref #: 1093 , Witness: Thomas Treacy, Captain IV Kilkenny, 1913-16; Commandant IRA Kilkenny, 1917-21

    • ... of Leighlinbridge, Co. Carlow, is postmistress in the Barrack St. Post Office, Waterford, where Constable Ryan ... Church, Waterford, where they remained until Thursday morning. Office and High Mass were celebrated ...

    • ... 43. through the ceiling. Considering the amount of explosives used, the barracks was not badly damaged. Some houses opposite the barracks were also marked with bullet holes and the door of the post office, about 20 yards down from the barrack on the same side, was damaged as if by badly aimed ...

    • ... the prisoner - a Mr. Cush - whose job was to collect the post for "Cage" No. 1 from the British military ... of that commission were actually sitting in the British Commandant's office in Ballykinlar, a prisoner named ... Was approximately 40 yards from the office in which the commission was sitting, and it must ...

    • ... Callan) and Kilmoganny, within 200 yards of the police barrack. The Post Office have lodged claims ...

    • ... at 6 a.m. I made a post mortem examination to-day assisted by Dr. Murphy, and I am of opinion ... on the body." Dr. P.J. Murphy, Thomastown, corroborated Dr. Marnell's post mortem examination in every ...

    • ... the revolvers etc. could be safely smuggled through the post, and that in consultation with the Brigade Staff I ... in the Town Hall at that time, and he took delivery of the post each day. As each parcel containing arms etc ...

    • ... , held a prominent post in the Irish Parliamentary Party in Waterford at the time. The following ...

    • ... were not armed with shotguns carried automatics or revolvers. My command post was with the party ...

    • ... the position of Principal Clerk in the Probate Office, Kilkenny. On my return from imprisonment ...

    • ... on that Easter Saturday night and ail books and documents were destroyed. The Income Tax office of Mr. Thomas ...

    • ... disposal by the British as an office. It was also known amongst the prisoners as the "Black Hut ...

  • WS Ref #: 1142 , Witness: Joseph M O'Byrne, Officer IV, Dublin, 1913 -1916; Captain IRA, Dublin, 1920; Registrar, Land Settlement Committee

    • ... , the "Bolshevik" revolution in Russia and the universal lowering of moral standards in the post-War period ... Republican Government into contempt. In the month of August, 1920, a conference took place in the office ... in a law office in Dublin. The object of the conference was to devise methods whereby the agrarian ...

    • ... establishing the National Land Settlement Commission was duly passed, the first office in which it functioned ... to mask the true character of the office. The staff of the office at that time consisted of ...

  • WS Ref #: 460 , Witness: Joseph T Thunder, Civil Servant, British High Court of Justice, Dublin 1918: Re Oath of Allegiance

    • ... . There were also, I understand, P. Cremins, Post Office, and Eamon Duggan, now a principal officer ... the office of the Under-Secretary, Dublin Castle, following demands made in the House of Commons ...

    • ... understand, P. Cremins, Post Office, and Eamon Duggan, now a principal officer. Industry and Commerce ... the office of the Under-Secretary, Dublin Castle, following demands made in the House of Commons to deal ...

    • ... took theOath. If So he and I were the only High court officials who did not do so. The only surviving member of the Staff of the Lord Chancellor's Office is Mr. J.G. Breakey, Who was then a First Class Clerk there and is still, I think Registrar in the High Court of Justice of Northern Ireland. He ...

    • ... 3. decided to wash his hands of the business. I do not think that Mr. Ledwich, in fact, took the Oath. If so, he and I were the only High Court officials who did not do so. The only surviving member of the Staff of the Lord Chancellor's Office is Mr. J.G. Breakey, who was then a First Class Clerk ...

    • ... , Sir James Campbell, afterwards Lord Glenavy, in his office, assisted by the late Gerald Horan, his ... to Courts Officers was challenged by Mr. George Wilkinson Ledwich, Chief Clerk, Taxing Office, and an old ...

    • ... Campbell, afterwards Lord Glenavy, in his office, assisted by the late Gerald Horan, his permanent ... was challenged by Mr. George Wilkinson Ledwich, Chief Clerk, Taxing Office, and an old and loyal ...

  • WS Ref #: 779 , Witness: Robert Brennan, Publicity Department, Dail Eireann, 1921

    • ... blurted out: "Look here, Chief, I'm writing Journalese not literature. We have to post this today if it's ... gradually increased. One day Una, who with the children had Joined me in Dublin, came into the office ... on seeing, what be thought, was one of the girls from the Cumannn na uBan office, which was on the same ...

    • ... and pointed out that a the post- office was closed. they could not got their allowances. We decided ...

    • ... into the office breathless.' "They're got Dev1 he said. "You mean he's been taken?" "Yes, they were all over ... . and, of course, he had relinquished this post when Dev returned from America. Was it the case ...

    • ... Street one morning and saw that the whole section in which my office was located was surrounded ... had his Local Government office. Furthermore., as the Tans were busy in the area, they were sure ... ," I said. "That man over there, standing under the lamp-post might be one for all I know." "I'll ...

    • ... was arrested; Joe O'Reilly came to my office and told me, so that I should not visit the house which ... be shrewd enough for that. It is quite possible that, even if her husband had lost his post un England ...

    • ... 62 men found in the house, jack Hegarty and Jim Bolger, were arrested. but de Lacey essaped. Bolyer was my wife's brother and he, like Dalacey and myself, was on the staff of the "Echo". Hegarty had boon employed in the Cork Post Office and he had been ordered by the British authorities to leave ...

    • ... had special technicians in the post office doing such work for him. Mick told me later that he had ...

    • ... stationland the post office ...

    • ... of England on behalf of the Liberal Party and her husband became solicitor to the Post Office, being ...

    • ... 643 little pieces before he would have done anything of the kind. The Foreign Affairs office ... . She had noticed that while there was a great deal of work going on in the office, there were no customers. She reported us. I was leaving the office one evening, when I saw Joe Reilly leaning ...

    • ... agreed that When Sean handed the letter into the Governor's Office, I should try and get an opper ... to the Governor's office. There was the letter on the table1 addressed to the Dundalk Democrat. I picked it up just an I was aware someone had come to the Office door. It was the Governor. "Good evening ...

    • ... office was also that of Army Organization, the work of which was being carried out by Diarmuid under the direction of Collins. I was on my way to Diarmuid's office when I saw emerging from Abbey ... Street. I climbed the stairs to Diarmuid's office. Madge Clifford, (now Mrs. Dr. John Corner ...

    • ... carefully comp fled. Collins had a close shave on this occasion, He was working iii an office he had set up in connection with the Dail. Loan, just across the corridor from my office, When Joe Clarke ran up to say there was a raid on, we both ran into Mick's office to warn him. "God blast it," he said ...

    • ... not yet been rebuilt. When I got back to my office, I saw to my horror, a slip of paper which had ... was to cable it to America. I raced back to the office in O'Connell Street and found the clerk who had ... as it had gone down to the telegraph transmission office in Amiens Street. I asked him if they would ...

    • ... ?" There are no telephones or telegrams, No one can get in touch with Dublin. I had it from the Free Presa Office." I hurried down to the newspaper office and learned from Willie Corcoran, the proprietor of the Free ...

    • ... entered the office. In a corner of his psckethandkerchief which ho held aloft in his hand during the search, he had the precious Letter. As he entered the office and saw his friend, Diarmuid conveniently ...

    • ... day I was conducted to the Governor's office, without knowing why. I had received a sentence ... on. In the hail outside the Governor's office there were two of our fellows. Jack Plunkett and Jack O'Brien, in ...

    • ... 424 executives stormed. and all Wicklow town was en fete. Finally, the prisoner was taken by road and the train ptooe1zded. I was only an hour in No. 6 Harcourt Street and I had Started working in the Secretary's office, when Dev sent for me. He said I was to work in his office because he did ...

    • ... time to come over with me to my office and I'll show you something?" "Certainly." I said. We had 0nly to 0trose the lane at the tear of the Court- house to Ben's office. He searched about amongst ...

    • ... direotor's office. in another her quarter of the city. 1 was looking for the office tat I saw Peter ...

    • ... 549 Irish papers. I went downstairs to Grlffith'e office End told him of the situation. "I dealt have the staff to do an this work" I said. "I Know." he answered, "but because they want it, we must ... , pointing out the Poet office Trinity College. the old Parliament KoUse1 and so on. When. we came out ...

    • ... headlines announcing the attack on Lord French the Governor General, We walked back to the office together. Even in those surroundings, Mick's office was the last word in neatness and order ...

    • ... 596 before, met Chartres several times in Griffith's office in Dublin. He was in charge of the Index to the London Times and he was a very valuable under cover agent for Sinn Hem. We went along ... . You wore merely to vet it." They're to go by the ordinary channels." I went one morning to the office ...

    • ... to provide against the contingency of the capture of the Harcourt Place office, I had rented another ... office and was casting about for some other line of business, when Prank Gall tier told me that Jack ...

    • ... much on the run, Harry came bustling into the office nearly every day, if only for a few minutes ... and he was always taking a chance for we all knew the office was closely watched. He was an untiring worker. No matter how much he was on the run, he wag in his office at eight in the morning and he opened ...

    • ... to the Foreign Office and found, in an outer room, practically every member of the staff, including the Foreign Minister. In the-Minister's office were two members of the Irish Brigade. They had ordered ... . His He Nave Con Qurrhish Ais Fath Joy Qurrlith He Came Into Wy Office and Identified Himself. I had ...

    • ... the Publicity post? No, because when I met him, I had written to him. When I spoke to him about it, I had ... for the post, that Collins was very keen on his getting it and that de Valera when he heard that he had ...

    • ... -Assistant Commissioner of the Dublin Metropolitan Police, the man who had been relieved of his post ...

    • ... was in Dublin occupying the prominent post of Chief of the Sinn Fein Publicity Bureau when 1 got ...

    • ... to this. On Sunday morning I was at my post in the Athenaeum when Jack Lacey. one of the most active ...

    • ... 140 1 see a broken body on the ground The English guns have silenced Padraig Pearse With heavy tread the soldiers march away Their work is done. A post now lies dead. No longer win they him in the West Around the little cabins of the poor Nor will he walk again in Kilmashogue Or sail in Bealadangin ...

    • ... 179 vainest men I have ever known and he seemed to have been created for his post. For instance, he always knew when one wan going to talk. Often1 just as I wan about to do so, I Would hear his voice behind me: "Now then Brennan, keep that tongue of yours quiet" This morning he came over to me ...

    • ... to get in touch rapidly with the Sinn Féin organisation. My office continued handling publicity ... of Publicity. When Ginnell was arrested, Desmond Fitzgerald took his place. He carried on in my office ...

    • ... Department to establish the Foreign Affairs Office. That was in January or February of 1921. I took offices ... Foreign Affairs office in Denzille Lane (now Fenian Street) there were Mairin Cregan Ryan, Frank Kelly ...

    • ... 587 that he thought the American organisation needed a man like me. I turned down the proposal and Harry left. Word came down that Mrs. Nugent's house was no longer safe, so I rented an. office ... we were well installed that the Mr. Henry who occupied the office beneath us. was not, as we had ...

    • ... that Art's house was being raided and this man had been sent to keep an eye on the office. I judged ... to be free to come to the office. He said he had no idea and that it might be a long time. I stood up ...

    • ... to the reporters' room in the Freeman's Journal office and anybody there would tell him where to find ... every day in his office in Andy Clerkin's premises in Brunswick Street - (now Peares Street). Early ...

    • ... 705 A young man whom I. knew very well, came into my office with a sensational report. Re hat been present at a secret meeting of an independent group that morning. Darrell Figgis, Who ... of An Poblacht, and Childers went off to get this done. I returned to my office in O'Connell Street and found ...

    • ... afterwards, I called to see Griffith in his dingy office in No. 17. Fownes Street, In his brisk, ourt ...

    • ... Ireland, Germany and the Freedom of the Seas". This had boon printed secretly in the "Echo" office ...

    • ... of that till. afterwards. I went down to the office of Mr. M.J. O'Connor, solicitor, who was giving ...

    • ... . Farrell, and a plain-clothes policeman named Sloan, were talking in the office. What time ...

    • ... 200 We swept the hall so a preliminary to scrubbing it and I had to fill the coal scuttle a the steward's room. I had also to ornate a diversion so as to enable Harry to get into the Priest's office unobserved. Gallop always fell for the ruse. had got very chummy with us and he had oven pinked up ...

    • ... to 1%hree days in solitary. As they were leaving the Governor's office, Harry turned and said ...

    • ... to call a halt, We were lined up in the Central flail and a man from the Home Office read ...

    • ... and was quoted by the Items Office as evidence of our ungodliness. When I got to Packhorse jail, a week ...

    • ... office and halted inside the door. The Governor's desk was behind a screen. Outside, 1 cold hear Jack ...

    • ... military then came along and occupied the street. Next day my office was a wreak. Though I was on the ...

    • ... office ran in, crying: "There's a raid, Mr. Brendan. They're all over the -". She saw the G-man ...

    • ... 524 "No," he said, "you know very well that all parcels are delivered the day they are received." "I was doing to pant thin letter." I said, "but I have changed my mind." and I pushed past him out of the office. All The fellows wore in the corridor as I made my way back and McEntee asked me loudly ...

    • ... , It went to his own office and brought out a full bettle of whiskey from which ho proceeded ...

    • ... " were searching all over the town for the office whence it originated. I had issued the first number ...

    • ... ," replied Harry. His main object in coming to the office was to get me to go to America. I asked him ...

    • ... was brilliant and set out to invrte a selected list of journalists to assmble in A.G.'s office ...

    • ... to be incorrect. Next morning, I was waiting for Griffith when he came into his office. He was badly shaken ...

    • ... an office in Suffolk Street. I went there to try and secure the services of flank Kelly, who was good ...

    • ... the office where Collins worked. The idea had never 900urred to him and, indeed, he would have been ...

    • ... 650 I had. They all tu1ned up shortly and work was resumed at the Foreign Office., A despatch from Harry Boland, our Envoy in washington, said that an American journalist "who was really a British agent" was on his way to Ireland and that we were to be on out guard against him. I will call ...

    • ... of. the building. I Immediately turned back and went in again, walking through the front office to the rear ...

    • ... not want to retrieve my hat. I ran down the stairs but forced Myself to walk through the front office ...

    • ... this information?" "From the people who know what they're talking about - the German Foreign Office." "I ...

    • ... to post it at the G.P.O. before the B a.m. collec- tion, so as to be in time for publication. As each ...

    • ... it. she had cut off a length of it to the the little dog to the bed post Tim Healy was largely ...

    • ... the guard comes on at six o'clock If I can manage it, I'll post your letters for you." I know the risk ho ...

    • ... . There was a great deal of post-election news, amongst the items being a 1letter from Scan McEntee thanking ...

    • ... . and it wasadecided I should apply for parole pt ones, I had received by the same post a letter from my ...

    • ... that about a week later Mrs. Hackett came to an office I had in Messrs. Kean & Company, Dame Street, when I ...

    • ... 11. Page 166. Re. suggestion that Collinwas organising the Volunteers for a showdown, for action, on his own responsibility. That was in my mind. There was something else preceding that which I told in the hook. When I went to No. 6 Harcourt St. I took a desk in the General Secretary's office ...

    • ... Mrs. Davies, during a call to Art Ó Briain's office, saw it and flew into a rage. Art Ó Briain told ...

    • ... 21. Page 270. What do you know about John Chartres? Only what I learned when I first met him in Griffith's office. I imagine that would have been in 1918, just before Griffith was arrested for the German Plot. It might have been very much earlier. I got the impression at that time that he had known ...

    • ... of luxury, almost. I got a job in the office of the County Surveyor at a salary of six shillings par ...

    • ... and then put his boots on so that he could not be dragged from the cell. Down in the office, five ...

    • ... and Communications departments. His memory for detail was faultless and his office system, harried though ...

    • ... was in the office, to leave us and when he did so, she locked the door. "I have to be careful." she said ...

    • ... 450 following wing year when I had returned from Gloucester Jail. One day I was sitting in my office in Harcourt Street, deep in conversation with a visitors. Cathal Brugha came in and entered a little room off mine, which he sometimes used. Someone else came in an4i wont into the same roam shortly ...

    • ... account of his hand-to-hand encounters of the night before in the defense Of the office. Seumas ...

    • ... mental strain to which he had been subjecting himself His pockets were a joke in the office. They wore ...

    • ... with McDermot, who worked in his office, and though he had seen that Sean ...

    • ... the next time Den came to the office Where I worked in the County Council building - he was the contractor ...

    • ... the meeting, Mick and Harry Boland came to my office and hick indulged in sulphorous language about ...

    • ... Journal office to find out what had happened. The reports that were coming in were dire indeed ...

    • ... to be done in the open Diarmuid Hegarty's office was located on the top floor "Ireland For Ever, Brigadier ...

    • ... 640 was to. refuse: a third offer and to accept a fourth.) He then asked me if I would be prepared to setup a Foreign Office in Which I would be Under-Secretary for' Foreign Affairs, my work being to co-relate the activities of our envoys abroad and to keep them better informed. I said I would ...

    • ... the house where my office was. I found George Homan in sole possessions He had arrived before ...

    • ... the office staff bewildered and furious at the turn of events. In ...

    • ... One day Harry came into Dev's office, looking very blank. ...

    • ... 707 Was I sure they would send an escort? Maybe they would arrive too late and the. Paper would be out in the streets. Why did not Tern Walsh come back? How would, they effect the. arrest? The situation had become so comical that my secretary, Main O'Brien, left the office hurriedly. I found her ...

    • ... saw him again. I went to my office in O'Connell Street and tried to put things in some sort of shape ...

  • WS Ref #: 1769 , Witness: Patrick J Little, Irish Representative, South Africa and Argentina, 1920 - 1921; Minister Dail Cabinet, 1939 - 1948

    • ... , along with Pearse, in the General Post Office in 1916. He was then deported to the Argentine ... with Ginnell, and ran the office in the Galleria Guemes, with the Spanish I secretary, Revilla. I also ...

    • ... on Easter Monday, the day the Rising started, and met the Volunteers as they were going to the Post Office. Then I went up to Dr. Seamus O'Kelly's in Rathgar Road. Rory O'Connor, in Easter Week, had ...

    • ... , I was late coming into the office, because I was getting a tooth out, and, when I came in, Eamon ... came into the office,. by the way, to consult the newspapers This was dare Sheridan, who was a cousin ... . Sheridan to the Four Courts, and we were brought directly to his office. We sat in front ...

    • ... 98. "1921. Oct. 29 Public meeting in the Teatro Coliseo, to launch our bonds. Messrs. Dowling, Moore and Nelson called at the office, in the morning. None of them wanted to go on the platform for the meeting. Mr. Little Is to act as Chairman. Father Flannery returned his box, at the very last ...

    • ... , and go around to the right, down to the sorting office in Pearse Street. He told me exactly how ... passed on to the Dáil Loan office. Michael Collins and I had a talk about the administration of the Land ...

    • ... with the same event. The Unionists went out of office in January, 1906. They had a big meeting in what ...

    • ... 103. "1922 Jan. 8 The Treaty was accepted by Dáil Éireann, by sixty-six votes to fifty- seven. 30 The whole office staff has been paid off, except Eamon, who will remain for another month. Mar. 2 A letter from Gavan Duffy, stating that representatives abroad will still represent the Republic ...

    • ... 86. saloon at night, I would talk in my sleep. When we arrived at Rio, I had many letters to post, both to our friends in South Africa, thanking them, and reporting home. In Rio, I did not understand Portuguese, and I directed the taximan to go to the wrong docks. When I found I had made a mistake ...

    • ... 11. copies of 'New Ireland' were printed, containing an exposure of this plan. After the seven copies of the paper had been printed, the manager of the Wood Printing Works, Mr. David, not an Irishman, went across to the 'Irish Times' office. They telephoned' the Castle. The "brass hats" came down ...

    • ... Office on the 11th September, warning us tbat our journal would not be permitted to reach the outside ...

    • ... had an office in London. There was "Likiavesky", who turned out afterwards to be Meisky ...

    • ... 20. During the Easter Week fighting, a company of soldiers raided No. 22 Eustace Street, where my office, as a solicitor, was. Having smashed the glass in my book-case, they went up to the caretaker, named Mrs. Derrick. They found the family saying the Rosary. They also found a new rifle, which had ...

    • ... was a Waterford man, and was finally the head of the International Labour Office - he told me, in 1932 ...

    • ... health, and would break down, sometimes, in the office, when we would send him away for a rest ...

    • ... 47. The censorship office was abolished on the 4th September, 1919. on the 20th September, I pub1ihed the Dáil Éireann Loan prospectus, and, as I had, no longer, the control of censorship to cut things out, so, my paper was suppressed on that date. I went to Glasgow, and started publishing 'Old ...

    • ... , carrying on their trade or business, not soldiers, but helping in a movement. I had my office ...

    • ... pains" As a result, our office files and correspondence were wrecked and scattered, in complete ...

    • ... the likely questions I might be asked by the passport officer. When I went to the passport office ...

    • ... of the meeting, John Nelson called us together, in his office, to protest against the poster which, he said ...

  • WS Ref #: 237 , Witness: Patrick Duffy, Member IV, Louth, 1916

    • ... afternoon that operations had opened up in Dublin. These, I think, came from Post Office. I understand ... to be available in the town was summoned for the "Examiner" Office. A number attended - about eight ... their effectiveness. I sent a note with Miss Deirdre Mathews "Examiner" Office, to a waiter in O'Neill's Hotel ...

  • WS Ref #: 389 , Witness: Roger McCorley, OC Antrim Brigade, IRA 1920

    • ... Stapleton actually was appointed to the post of Secretary to Wickham. It was part of his duty ... in his own private office, It was due to these last files that Stapleton was eventually uncovered. On one occasion Colonel Wickham left the office to attend Borne meeting outside the Headquarters ...

    • ... exchanges, post office sorting offices and telegraphic aerviee3. The duties of these people were, first ... to remove official correspondence from the post, bring it out to our Intelligence Service who had copies made of it and then return the original correspondence to the Poet Office again where it passed ...

    • ... the office Wickham returned to pick up something which he had forgotten to take with him and found ... ) office. Stapleton concocted Son excuse which Wickham seemed to accept. Wickham then left the office ... as Wickham had left the office Stapleton gathered together all the important files including ...

    • ... been transferred to Lisburn on the assumption that that would be a safe post. Orders had cone through ...

    • ... during the post Truce fighting and was found to be an effective one to the end. Sunday, 10th July ...

    • ... told Wickham that he had an ideal man available and recommended Stapleton for the post. When ...

    • ... of the Liaison Office. I told him that be better look up his files and he would find tbL5t that was not the case ...

    • ... them In to the first gate and into the office of the warder on duty. When the warder was satisfied as to their ...

    • ... was that when the warder would bring them to his office they were to hold him up and take the keys ...