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WS Ref #: 750 , Witness: Bernard O'Donnell, nee Eithne Coyle; Member Executive Cumann na mBan
... -7- sentenced to three months' imprisonment. Catherine Toolin, a lame girl, who worked in a post office in Co. Boscommon and was sentenced to six months, was also serving it in Mountjoy. May Burke from Co. Limerick got a two years' sentence also for giving information from the post office where she ...
... armed in an attack on a Specials' post. It was the I.R.A. from Donegal under, I think, Frank O'Donnell ...
... -18- blown up about 1939, took part in the action. They took the post and drove out the Specials, wounding a couple of them, as far as I remember. That shows that at all times I worked in close co-operation with the I.R.A. and in June '22, following discussions with the Divisional officers, I ...
WS Ref #: 762 , Witness: Liam McMullen, Member IRB, Ballycastle, 1908; Captain IRA, Antrim, 1919 - 1921
... was, I understand, general in the Brigade area was to raid the local post office at intervals and seize all money and postal orders and stamp them with the official date stamp of the post office ...
WS Ref #: 767 , Witness: Patrick Moylett, Member IV, 1914; Official Sinn Fein courts; Negotiations British Cabinet Pre-Truce, 1921
... to this country from England. I was told she was the wife of the solicitor to the British Post Office. She ... of the solicitor to the British Post Office, as already stated. ...
... took place in the Foreign Office and he told me then that the Prime Minister was interested in what I ... conference. He wrote down his proposition on paper which I agreed to post to Griffith that night ... at them. "Ah, yes", he said, "we had these, but they were nothing to the Foreign Office teas". Anyhow, he ...
... . A man named Brown, 6'4" in height, - we called him "Big Brown - who kept the post office in Dominick ... solicitor, Mr.Conroy of Francis St. (his office was opposite the police barracks) to lodge a claim ... . On my way to Mr. Conroy's office, when passing J.J. Ward's garage, I handed in my suitcase and told ...
... office at about 11 o'clock that day. After the usual courtesies he told me that the British were very ... that, I decided to act. I knew then that they meant business. Before I set out for Dumont's office I had been in the office of the Irish Overseas Shipping and Trading Company in Fleet St. After my ...
... suspicion. Maher and I never disguised ourselves. I had an office at No. 19 Eustace St. and a lot of letters came from Germany to that office. They came through Sean O'Dunne of Odense. Dan Quinn came ... houses around where we had our office, was searched. On one occasion W.T.Cosgrave came to the end ...
... . As a result of this, I went to the head office of the Provincial Bank at 8 Throgmorton Avenue, and made ... in the official Provincial Bank postbag which was posted each day o the head office in Dublin, and that my ... make use of it in Downing St. On my way out of Griffith's office that ...
... (Father) Sweetman called into the office at 6 Harcourt St. and asked us to nominate his nephew ... . Phillips's office, and, picking up the receiver, Mr. Phillips spoke to the Prime Minister, who wanted ... Office in London knew nothing of it and gave no authority; consequently he took ...
... Office; her father was the secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs. I was invited ... to the party, and Sir William Tyrrel C.J. Phillips and a Mr. Koppel, a Foreign Office official, retired ...
... photograph dated July 1st, 1921, through the Foreign Office in London. I received it immediately after ... . Phillips at the Foreign Office. On the 12th November Mr. Phillips addressed me as follows:- "In the event ...
... 86. who was my co-director. We decided we would send the information through W.T. Cosgrave, who at that time was in charge of Home Affairs and had an office in the Alexandra Hotel in Exchequer St. He ... in to Dublin Castle at 11 o'clock the following morning I left Dumont's office and walked from ...
... at his office or not, as I was afraid I would be arrested, but when I called on him he said he was in the same position himself, but that he did not leave his office. During our conversation he asked me ...
... of Cork, took him out of his bed and brought him to the docks. They put him under a lamp-post ...
... 3. home. I called at an office at the archway near the Queen's theatre in Pearse St. and there I met J.P. Dalton - Emmet Dalton's father - and from him I purchased for £25, six Mausers of the 1896 Spanish model pattern, and one 1877 Mauser Single-barreled rifle. A week later, Emmet Dalton arrived ...
... that John MacNeill was to be boycotted and that he was to hold no office. Next day at the Convention he sat ...
... the rest of my family's clothing and personal effects I sent into my office at No. 7, Williamsgate ...
... on John Steele at his office, 125 Pall Mall We discussed the situation in Ireland, and the aspects ...
... was published in London. His office was in Bernard Shaw's house in Adelphi, The Strand. I called on him ...
... of Lloyd George. In order to meet Lord Northcliffe, I called at the "London Times" office in Printing ...
... was then chairman of the British Labour Party, to his office at 33 Eccleston Square I had a letter ...
... , stating: "I was accustomed to going to that office for a considerable time without any procedure ...
... 75. ran grave risks of being murdered by the Auxiliaries even before I arrived in Dublin, that they certainly would murder me if they knew what was being done. Phillips told me that the Irish Office did their mightiest to get to know who I was and he said he could not give them my name or any idea ...
... . de Valera's arrival we find Erskine Childers being appointed to the office of Director of Publicity ...
... to take the risk. My first interview took place at the Foreign Office, where I met Phillips ...
... . Incidentally, I met Shane Leslie one day outside Phillip's office waiting to see him. I had known ...
... 78. away and, in consequence, at about 4.30 that Sunday I went to the "Independent" office in Abbey St. I saw Mr. Harrington, the editor, and I asked him to publish a denial of what Mr. McInerney had written. He said: "Who are you that you could give me such instructions?" I said: "I am the chap ...
... was Ernest Blythe's office, which was never discovered, and some of these men were also keeping watch ...
WS Ref #: 781 , Witness: Patrick J Kelly, Lieutenant IRA, Dublin, 1921
... and set it alight. About September 1920 Peadar Clancy planned a raid on Amiens St. Post Office. A number of us assembled in a lane opposite the Post Office. Peadar explained to us he was waiting ...
... with friends or reading. The camp was equipped with dry canteen, post office and barber's shop, also a large ...
... comrades, Paddy and Carry Holohan, Joe O'Reilly (known as Bantry Joe), Sean O'Connor (Blimey ...
... 19. He boiled water in a large enamel jug on a forge fire and was assisted by Volunteer Paddy Farrell. When the tea was made Manning shouted, "tea ready". I left my post to another Volunteer and went to the end of the room to have a cup. Manning said, "go back to your post and I will send it up ...
... 11. The. British troops were in possession of the Broadstone Railway Station, and sniping into and from the station went on all day. On being relieved from my post on the barricade I made my way to the top of a four storey building - Clark's provision shop. The top windows commanded a view ...
... 13. wounded him in the leg but he managed to get around the corner and away. Tuesday night was similar to Monday night. We lay down on the floor to snatch a few hours sleep. I was given a turn of duty at one of the windows about 2 a.m. I was not long at my post when I observed someone signalling ...
... a flank attack on our positions. About half way to our allotted post we had to cross a patch ...
... of the Fianna - Garry Holohan and Mick O'Neill There was only four Volunteers in this post, and about ...
... there was any more men ha would have to find them himself. (Our post, I believe, was the only one in the city ...
... 43.a St. James's Buglers sounded the last post after the volleys were fired in Glasnevin, and while this was being done the rifles were passed back through the crowd and taken away. About two weeks after the funeral I was detailed to take a party of four men, Joe Dodd, Tom O'Reilly, Tom Burke ...
... turf bank" where certain sentries Were on duty at that post. We would collect the stuff and pay ...
... meeting in December they did me the honour of electing me their President. I held that office till ...
... , went to the Editor's office, pushed open the door and ordered the Editor to put up his hands ...
... 59. A week after this event Bill Judge, who held up the Editor, was sent by his firm to interview the Editor as a business matter. Bill knocked on the office door and was told "come in". As he entered the Editor looked up from his desk and seeing Bill, automatically raised his hands. Bill Said ...
WS Ref #: 802 , Witness: Sean Prendergast, Member Fianna Eireann, 1911; Officer IV, Dublin, 1914 - 1916; Captain IRA, Dublin, 1921
... 114. was not the most minor service in the routine and administration of the Camp. The Post Office also could lay claim to be an important service in Camp affairs Three of the mainstays ... amount of hard solid work attached to that branch which at timed resembled a sub-post office outside ...
... 111. Thomas, Hahesy was attached to the Camp Post Office under Frank Scott. A synopsis of the work falling under each of these spheres of activities. may not be remiss. The p position of our M.O ... bitterly he fought against that promotion and stoutly riled me for suggesting his name for the post ...
... Council. Frank Scott was in charge of the Post Office while special men were delegated officers in ...
... , post office etc. as well as providing for the maintenance of good order in the Camp. Eyen ...
... 41. allowed by the reigning prison authorities, who, in excise of their office ax4 because of prison regulations, insisted and upheld that all forms of communication between the prisoners and the outside World and vice versa should go by ordinary prison chennels, undergoing a most meticulous ...
... " hut. All the the while they kept a "weather eye" on the sentry post situated close by. Such a move ...
... it passes from pillar to post ever onward in the march of time, a glory and a legacy to those who bore ...
... on our part participated because their action represented to us a major assault an not a mere post ...
... , in occupation of Amiens. St. station, several hundred yards away. They used the clock tower as a sniping post ...
... to evacuate our position, meanwhile contacting Commandant O'Doherty in the post opposite and acquainting ...
... Garland with his group would proceed to the new post. We arrived then as best we could and they left ...
... 22. place, if occupied was a paint abo3at midway between our post and the garrison in O'Connell St. If that report was true, then we would be in for a breezy time, assuming that they also occupied the I Marlboro St. School buildings, portion of which reached to the rear of the houses occupied by us ...
... to his post as steadfastly as he, and thats paying him no mean tribute Added to that, was the writers ...
... the impression that Aiken and his men were attacking the post; at other times the sound of shooting ...
... , although we heard tales of him and his men attacking a post some little distance from the Camp ...
... of Talbot Street and five or six other adjacent houses. The Pawn Office at the corner of Waterford St ...
... of the wing, deep enough and loud enough to he heard mayhaps in the Governor's office some fair distance ...
... the office of Camp Censor the following anecdote amply demonstrates. One particular internee ...
WS Ref #: 1572 , Witness: Padraig Kane, Officer IRA, Carlow, 1921
... of organising intelligence in the post office service, and, with that end in view, I got myself elected to the National Executive of the Post Office Clerks' Assoication which gave me scope for travelling ...
... . By early in 1920 I bad contacted post office intelligence workers as far apart as Wexford, Kilkenny ... instructions which he should not have had. After his arrest, the homes of suspected "disloyal" post office officials were rigorously searched. ...
... raids on the Post Office and some post office workers' homes, and others, it had broken down. A trusted ...
... -2- dodgers, but I managed to collect enough knowledge to secure first place in a post office clerks' open competition in 1912, after which I was employed in Carlow for several years. Home Rule and its controversies were in the air at this time, and I naturally became interested, but I was more ...
... ", and was employed across the road from the post office. He was not long there when his rooms were ...
... old and reliable colleague, Miss Alice O'Sullivan, and myself were removed from our jobs in the post office, on the alleged grounds that we were "associating with and assisting the Irregulars ...
... / Office/ Court: Date: 7 March 2003. ...
... / Office/ Court Date: 7 March 2003. ...
... communications by telegraph, telephone and post, but nothing much happened. The organisation of the Volunteers ...
... to the then new Thompson gun. Jim Lillis escaped from internment, and reverted to his post as Brigade ...
WS Ref #: 1588 , Witness: Sean T Ruane, Officer IRA, Mayo, 1921
... , information was given to my brother, the late Comdt. Thomas Ruane, by a friend in the local post office ... there. The information was got from the morse message heard in the Kiltimagh post office, passing over ...
... of the post office. Owing to her expressed approval of the insurrection to a commercial traveller named ...
... of Seán Corcoran's arrest, of the I.R.B. oath being found on him, of Miss Gavin's removal from the post ...
WS Ref #: 1596 , Witness: Henry McGowan, Captain IRA, Donegal, 1921
... to lure the R.I,C. into an ambush position by raiding the Post Office at Meeng1ass, which I knew would ... the Post Office and adjoining buildings. My instructions to this party were to quietly enter the house ...
... on me and asked permission to raid the estate office of Captain Hamilton who, they informed me ... to Ballintra and entered the office, but all the cash we got there was £5. I learned later that, as we ...
... 7. being pay day for the troops, defence precautions were I bit lax. I then made plans to attack the place on the following Wednesday night, but to my chagrin, the British forces evacuated the post on Tuesday, the day before which I had trade plans for attack. They moved from the hall to Drumboe ...
WS Ref #: 1627 , Witness: Charles Conaty, Officer IRA, Meath, 1921
... 8. Crossakiel, had gone into the Kells Post Office and subsequently to Kells R.I.C. barracks to report that Shorty Smith with the pony, sidecar and mails had not arrived at Crossakiel Post Office that morning and was missing. The Tans and R.I.C. had come out in the lorry, which we attacked ...
WS Ref #: 1642 , Witness: Edward Halley, Vice-Commandant IRA, Kilkenny, 1921
... 17. At 10 a.m. Tom Looby 'phoned from the Post Office to the military in Callan telling them that the Post Office in Kilmanagh had been raided by armodmen. It was hoped by this ruse to bring one or two lorries of military and police out to investigate. The ruse failed and about 5 or 6 p.m ...
... house covering the approach of the Callan Road The Post Office was occupied by Tom Looby ...
... / Office/ Court: Date: 7 March 2003. ...
... 11. elected Vice-Commandant. He left it to us to appoint two auitable menas Adjutant and Quartermaster. I ama bit doubtful about whowas appointed Battalion Adjutant. It may have been Dick Pollard of Callan who held the post for a brief period and was sncceeded, also for a brief period, by Joseph ...