Displaying results. 191 - 200 of 1246.
WS Ref #: 1156 , Witness: Thomas Francis Meagher, Member Flying Column, IRA, North Wexford, 1921
... of the Civil Service in 1909. I was assigned to the Post Office in Enniscorthy. I joined ... to remain quiet and not make myself conspicuous. He also said that, as I worked in the Post Office, I ...
... , a Volunteer named Kelly, who was a clerk in Enniscorthy Post Office, Reported to our Intelligence Officer, Albert Smyth, that he had seen an instruction passing through the Post Office for the arrest ...
... me about my duties in the Enniscorthy Post Office where I had been employed, and also about the part ...
... -9- Our next move was to attack a party of Black and Tans who each night acted as escort for the mails from Gorey Post Office to the railway station. We were to attack them on the Forty-Foot road which leads to the station. We left Coady's of Carrigeen at night, which was the usual time we moved ...
WS Ref #: 1189 , Witness: Thomas O'Connor, Officer Fianna Eireann, Kerry, 1921
... in the local post office, where, on numerous occasions, they got possession of telegrams in code passing ... in decoding the messages taken out of the post office by our members there. ...
WS Ref #: 1201 , Witness: John (Dick) Conway, Lieutenant IV and IRA, Galway, 1917 - 1921
... to Ballyglunin Post Office to draw money to pay the men stationed at Annagh. At least 50 men were stationed ... that it was a Bank Holiday and that the Post Office was closed. One unarmed British soldier from ...
WS Ref #: 1204 , Witness: Daniel Liston, Captain IRA, Limerick, 1921
... of shotguns. I was armed with a revolver. As I was about to enter the Post Office, I met a Black ... to take up our positions. Our party consisted of eighteen men. I was ordered to take over the Post Office which was situated about one hundred yards from Lil Connors'. The other men were divided ...
... -6- loaded. It was not my own and had only been given to me by Commandant Foley as I left to take over the Post Office. As I opened it, one of the bullets got stuck in the ejector. In the back kitchen, there was a small window overlooking a pathway which led up to the back door. The pathway had ...
WS Ref #: 1263 , Witness: Charles Pinkman, Intelligence Officer, IRA, South Leitrim Brigade, 1921
... by the enemy. I had a few private agents as well: Miss Nangle in the post office in Mohill and Jim Sheerin in the post office in Carrick-on-Shannon. They kept us informed of phone messages to the enemy posts ...
... servants and post office workers. We also made contacts with men serving inside the British forces ...
... of each such post or garrison; the type of troops or force in each such post, whether military ... with tad records towards our side; the distance of one enemy post to the others; the names of persons ... . Regarding post offices, my reports had to cover such things as location, friendly officials ...
... 7. enemy posts in those towns. We did not decipher the code messages locally as we were not supplied with a key. The code messages were sent by special despatch to the Director of Intelligence, G.H.Q. Such messages were sent by ordinary post to a covering address in Little Mary St., Dublin ...
WS Ref #: 1288 , Witness: Michael Gleeson, Captain IRA, Clare, 1921
... the decrees of the Courts. On one occasion, I do not remember the date, the local post office ... of a boy who was one of the culprits. This boy admitted having broken into the post office along ...
... in the vicinity of each military post at which guards were pasted night and day whose duty ...
... and the Galway border outside Whitegate there was not a single post held by the British. Though ...
WS Ref #: 1296 , Witness: Thomas Costello, OC Athlone Brigade, IRA, 1921
... 2. the Post Office in Athlone who was a clerk in that establishment. This man was an ex-British army soldier. He undertook to intercept and decipher the code messages which passed through ... Post Office in the area in which we could even get that much co-operation. Inside the R.I.C ...
... . In February, 1920, elaborate plans were made by the Brigade O/C to attack and capture this post. There were ...
... 30. Dublin. Such stuff was sent by ordinary post; sometimes the mails were raided by our men in other areas and, of course, our stuff would be intercepted with the rest, but it always eventually reached its destination. There were three or four men executed in the area for spying for the British ...
WS Ref #: 1323 , Witness: Martin Needham, Commandant IRA, Tipperary, 1921
... of importance was ever found. The letters were always re-forwarded via the Lorrha post office and were marked, "Censored by the I.R.A." As a safety precaution, the telephone in the Lorrha post office ...
... " - Ballingarry - Timothy McKenna. The Battalion O/C was no sooner into his new post than he did everything ...
... -5- Company to a man refused to be sworn until Cronin was restored to his post as a Battalion officer. A compromise was effected, and the Company were sworn in on an assurance being given by the Offaly officer that the Lorrha area would be transferred back to the control of the 1st Tipperary ...
... such periods. In April, 1921, the Vice 0/c of our battalion was removed from his post, and I ...
... -14- (Cronin) was promoted to the Brigade Staff as Vice Brigadier. Cronin was replaced by Martin Haugh, and the latter's post - Battalion Adjutant - was hen filled by Sean Gleeson. As Battalion Vice O/C, I had to make periodic visits of inspection to each of the companies. During 1921, a levy ...
WS Ref #: 1378 , Witness: Thomas Donnellan, Member IRA, Galway, 1921
... a quarter of a mile from the village. Ten or eleven of the company took up positions near the post office to attack the patrol on their way back from the railway station. The post office was actuafly ...
WS Ref #: 1381 , Witness: William King, Officer IRA, Galway, 1921
... taught in that school and his son taught there when he retired. The local post office was at Leenane Hotel and my brother and I often went to mail letters there. On our way to the post office we passed ...
... post office, from where he telephoned to Galway for reinforcements. The telephone in Maam barrack ...