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WS Ref #: 1551 , Witness: Patrick McCabe, OC Mullingar Brigade, IRA, 1921
... the barracks. The post office in Castlepollard was: run by pro British elements who were hostile to us. I understand that the post office in Mullingar did very good work, but this was a G.H.Q. affair ...
... . There was, a. post office on one side of the barracks and a publichouse on the other. There was' a wall ...
WS Ref #: 155 , Witness: Peadar S Doyle, Officer IV, Dublin, 1913 - 1916; Member Dail Eireann, 1923 - 1956
... gave the order to remove the wounded and evacuate the Post Office and he himself was the last to leave the blazing headquarters. New headquarters were then established in Moore Street. The Post Office ...
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... "Oh body that has been heard in Ireland." The cheers brought the Governor from his office. The Head ... that he could not comply with the request as it was a matter for me Home Office. The Warders were ...
... or office at thecommencement if the Rising? Coy - QR - Master. 7. Whenand by whomwere you appointed? I ...
... ., of the Irish Volunteers and of which I held the post of Quarter Master. Having no records I cannot name ...
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... ., or the ?? volumteers and of which I held the post of Quarter Master. Hsving no revords I cannot name ...
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... in Moors Strest. The Post Offtoe collspsed in a rcar and it looked as if all Dublin was in fmse ...
... of the garrison had up to this stage been overlooked so this post was allotted to me on the Tuesday ...
... in time. Post Offices were closed and no telegrams could be sent. We boarded our train and at the first ...
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... in time. Post offices were closed and no telegrams could be sent. We hoarded our train ...
... hope of the Government Rome Office yielding to our request and that all kinds of punishments would ...
... boys that has been heard in Ireland." The cheers brought the Governor from his office. The Head ...
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... Office yielding to our request end that all kinds of punishment would be imposed and if necessary ...
WS Ref #: 188 , Witness: Sean O'Keeffe, Officer IV, Dublin, 1913 - 1916
... was employed in the Engineering Branch of the Post Office and wore blue dungarees. similar to those worn by employees of the Post Office at that time. The cutting of this cable was considered most important ...
... the dual post of Adjutant and Quartermaster. The O'Rahilly did not seek re-election as he had been ...
... in the week at his post in Clanwilliam House defending Mount Street Bridge. Whilst we were on duty ...
WS Ref #: 216 , Witness: Louise Gavan-Duffy, Sister of George Gavan-Duffy; Secretary Cumann na mBan, 1916
... was in the post office with the Red Gross; they were on the left-hand side, the Prince's Street side, of the post office. That was where Connolly was hurt I understand. I suppose I began to wash up ...
... left the post office we were in a front room downstairs taking messages from the men to bring ... , that they had been in the post office all week and that they were leaving now and not to worry about them. These ...
... , and he had three sons in the fighting, some of them. were in the post office with him. He gave me his ... proud of them. I did. not get any instructions before we left the post office. Desmond Fitzgerald ...
... by somebody. We never communicated with the men after we left the poet office. I did not know when we were leaving that they were going to surrender; I thought that they were evacuating the post office and going somewhere else. I certainly did not have the impression that it was all at an end ...
... asked to see Mr. Pearse, he was the only person I knew. Before I entered the post office I did ...
... -6- I was brought into the post office and. I saw Mr. Pearse. He was as calm and courteous as ever. I now think it was very insolent of me because I said to him that I wanted to be in the field but that I felt that the Rebellion was a frightful mistake, that it could not possibly succeed ...
... were the last to leave the post office. We thought the men had left before us. We were so long ...
... o'clock before we left the post office. We spent the night in the hospital. There were three or four ...
... to be there all night. That was a Volunteer office. I think we met in Pearse Street as well ...
... to the office on the first floor. I was going to sell it. The raiders just cleared it out ...
WS Ref #: 353 , Witness: James McGuill, Commandant IV, Dundalk, 1916; Centre IRB, Louth, 1919 - 1920
... of the I.R.B. in Dundalk worked as a postal official in Dundalk Post Office, was affected by this order. Mr ... workers. His position in the post Office gave him opportunities to obtain valuable items ...
... were Patrick Hughes a post Office official, James Toal and myself. Shortly after those appointments I ...
... examined by two Home Office Doctors. Dr. Thompson who was in charge of the Hospital informed me after the Home Office Doctors left us that 18 of our men including myself were certified fit for discharge ... the Governor told him that he had received later instructions from the Home Office that all the prisoners ...
... not take any action against us without specific instructions from the Home Office and the Home Office ... . The majority of our men got back to Ireland before the Home Office became aware on Monday of the escape ...
... were being changed to another post and during the short interval before the new garrison moved in, I ...
... Lough. within easy distance of Newry town then and now a strong military post. The people ...
... to the Governor's Office where two high-ranking military officers were waiting for me. They had the file of my ...
... fully the great services he and his associates had rendered to the county during their term of office ...
... County Council had gone out of office they had successfully negotiated with the Hibernian Bank Dundalk ...
... 111. part in the laceration I received, stated that a man could not blow hot and blow cold at the same time. One of the most unpleasant duties I had ever to do in connection with the I.R.B. was to dispense with the services of Patrick Hughes and to relieve inn of his office and membership. This had ...
WS Ref #: 358 , Witness: Geraldine Dillon, Sister of Joseph M Plunkett, executed 1916
... . The separation allowance women began to gather in the street. They crowded round the Post Office, and abused ... to us with a message from Joe, that I was not allowed to go into the post Office, there were enough ...
... , who knew nothing about politics, into the Post Office. He told my fiancé, that he would be considered ...
... living there Since 1919 as my husband got a post in University College, Galway that year, I shall send ...
... when I brought these things, Fiona and myself were kept waiting a long time in the office ...
WS Ref #: 359 , Witness: Aoife de Burca, Member Cumann na mBan, 1916
... Of the Post, Office to look at the fires andit certainly was a splendid, though awful, sight. I could not help ... Of the Post Office began that evening, but did not continue’ very long. It ceased at dark, but ohly ...
... wounded. He bed been on duty on top of the Post Office and was badly wounded, the, bullet passing through ... it without a scratch. somewhere about 8 p.m. girls came with me to the front portion of the Post Office ...
... , whom, with the woundod, myself and co-workers left the Post Office on Frid1ay evening. I was present ...
... on duty on top of the Post Office, and was badly wounded, the bullet passing through his lung, up his ...
... shaighsiur ar son Eireann). I remember a Volunteer asking me would I say the Rosary with him at his post ...
... , at his post of duty; I did so, and got some other girls to join; he was on guard right under a window ...
... by Lieut. Mahony. who, with the wounded, myself and co-workers, left the Poet Office on Friday evening. I ...
... fancied just then. The shelling of the Poet Office began that evening, but did not continue very long. It ceased at dark, but only to begin with renewed vigour on the following day. Night came; in vein I tried to sleep; indeed, I don’t think many of us could. I remember Commandent Sean MacDermott ...
... viotory was sure to be ours if we could only hold out till help came. Such were ths inspiring messages we were receiving from time to time. Wednesday morning dawned as the proceeding one. At about 9 or 10 a.m. the military beran she1lin the Hibernian Bank from the Ballast Office; our quiet. time ...
... Such were the inspiring messages we were receiving from time to time. e6needay morning dawned as the preceding one. At about 9 or 10 a.m. the military began ehelling the Hibernian Bank from the Ballest Office; our quiet time was at an end. At 10.30 a.m. or thereabouts., Commandant Weafer came ...
WS Ref #: 415 , Witness: Eily O'Hanrahan O'Reilly, Member Cumann na mBan, 1914 - 1921; Sister of Michael O'Hanrahan, executed, 1916
... on the night of the day that the post office clerk whom I referred to in my previous statement as supplying information had brought to the house a code message that had been sent through her post office ...
WS Ref #: 417 , Witness: David McGuinness, Member IV, Belfast, 1914 - 1916; Asst. Intelligence Officer IRA, Belfast, 1921
... Organiser. Crummey had. a number of contacts in military police circles, the Post Office Telegraph ... letters were handed over to a special staff in the Post Office. The ordinary staff of sorters never ...
... attendants on the Great Northern Railway Dining Cars. In the, General Post Office in Belfast we had a number ... -betweens". For instance, the information from the C.I's. Office, Downpatrick, was transmitted by the C.I'S ...
... telegraphists and a number of important plots were in this way discovered by our night staff in the Post Office for instance, officers speaking to each other from places such as Victoria Barracks and Balmoral Showgrounds, and also, the Grosvenor Road Hospital. The latter place had originally been ...
... of the Belfast Brigade to solve; therefore, police contacts in the County Inspector's Office and the District Inspector's Office at Downpatrick were established to obtain. copies o the much wanted codes ... for obtaining keys to the codes was a clerk in the County Inspector's Office in Downpatrick. It can ...
... Which if permitted to go on, would have rendered a boycott ineffective. When the Truce was declared and was effective in Southern Ireland it made no difference to the Intelligence work in Belfast. The arrival of Eoin O'Duffy as liaison officer witnessed the, setting up of office premises and staff ...
... in the County Inspector General's office was insecure insofar as that he might be, at any moment ...
WS Ref #: 436 , Witness: James McKeon, Officer IRA, Longford, 1921; Brother of General Sean MacEoin
... a month. We took over houses and the Post Office in the village Sean set up his headquarters in the Post Office. All roads leading into the village were strongly held. Men who were on the "run" were whole ...