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  • WS Ref #: 1650 , Witness: Patrick O'Reilly, Captain IRA, Meath, 1921

    • ... the local Company at Kells seized the mails at the Post Office and, having censored them, returned them to the Post Office. In the same month the Moynalty Company held up the mail car from Bailieboro ...

    • ... Volunteers from Wexford, who were 'on the run' in our: area, I raided Moynalty Post Office to seize the telephone equipment there. The Post Office was situated in the corner of a public-house. ...

    • ... 22. While we were inside a boy scout, whom we had placed outside to warn us of the likely approach of the police, cane in for cigarettes. While he was Inside a lorry load of Tans noiselessly approached and stopped outside the pub. The Tans came in for a drink. The owner rushed to the Post Office ...

    • ... 19. That night Watt Tevlin, Battalion Engineer of the 5th or Stonefield Battalion with members of the Carnaross Company, arrived in Moynalty to give a hand if necessary. By this time the R.I.C., with the help of Colonel Farrell, had contacted a British military post at Whiteswood, Nobber. They were ...

  • WS Ref #: 1656 , Witness: Daniel Healy, OC ASU Cork, 1921 -1922

    • ... at Ballycannon, was in London and that ho was to collect a letter at Hammersmith Post Office ... O'Callaghan and I were to go to London and shoot Connors when he arrived at Hammersmith post Office ...

    • ... I GEORGE FRAWCTS HEGARTY of 9A. Morrisons Island in the City of Cork, Medical Doctor, aged 21 years and upwards make oath and nay as follows :- 1. In conjunction with Doctor A,E. Moore I attended at the North Cathedral Mortuary Chapel, Cork, on the 26th March 1921 for the purpose of making a post ...

  • WS Ref #: 1668 , Witness: Thomas Hevey, Adjutant IRA, Mayo, 1919 - 1921

    • ... knife and take up his gun. I remember an early morning raid on the principal post office for the purpose of getting mails. I waited some distance from the post ... as if one suggested selling his daughter to a white slaver. Instead, I got an office job in Dundalk ...

    • ... the place, a detachment, which included Kilroy and Johnny fluffy, set off for the R.I.C. post which had ... . post through a window and removed booby traps from the front and back doors, then threw them open ...

    • ... 19. Joe Ring the Westport, while Patrick Kelly and Michael Kilroy commanded Louisburgh and Newport respectively. Summer was now about to give way to autumn in that year of 1920, and the brigade was on a firm footing, every post filled with understudies where necessary. I myself was, for instance ...

    • ... courtmartialled we fell in as usual for our march to another billet. I got the post of honour that night ...

    • ... of this latter party, Jim Moran from Newport, was detailed to snipe Newport R.I.C. post. Jim ...

    • ... 14. office. When the job was done, Ned cycled up to me, handed me his gun and calmly cycled off to his work. The Black and Tans were about this time beginning to arrive. This was a force recruited in England to augment the R.I.C., whose source of manpower had dried up for various reasons ...

    • ... 54. an operation was not to be considered as complete until the operation report was sent into G.H.Q. "Red Tape" had reared its ugly head. Strangely, this did not annoy us. Instead, we laughed derisively - "How the hell could Dick Mulcahy, sitting in comfort in a Dublin office, know that we hadn't ...

  • WS Ref #: 1729 , Witness: J. Togher, Intelligence Officer, IRA, Galway, 1917-21

    • ... in the post office, Peter Hynes, Paddy Walsh and Tom Courtney, who were later on my comrades ... , on account of my position in the post office, I could be very useful. There was very little ...

    • ... on the language and Irish history, 1798 particularly. In 1915 I applied for a post in the post office and secured it, firstly as a Learner, later being transferred to the telegraphic section. During ...

    • ... was a Company Captain in the Volunteers and the maker of our spare key for the post office safe. Another great ...

    • ... 8. inside post office matters, telegrams, etc., and the bluff worked. The Intelligence Officer was particularly astute at his job a Captain Hannon, nicknamed Capt. "Splendid", of the King's Royal Rifles, K.R.R. I was later released with three other Volunteers, and the whole matter was hard ...

    • ... 3. Renmore and Eglinton Barracks. It meant quite a lot of night work for me in order to ensure no undue delay. In order to enter the office at night, which I could not do officially, I was obliged to climb in through a second floor window, extract any mail I was doubtful about, bring them back home ...

  • WS Ref #: 805 , Witness: Annie O'Brien, Officer Cumann na mBan, 1916 - 1921

    • ... were there waiting, word came in from a sniping post, a publichouse called Bowe's at the corner of William St. and Coppinger Row, that the two snipers at that post had evacuated it, leaving their arms ... to the post and found the house locked up. We went to the house next door, round in William St., where we ...

    • ... military post. As the pass would not include us he let us out a little distance before the post and we made our way on the bicycles through the post at Naas and all the others on the main road until we came to Clondalkin. There the military post would not let us through in spite of all the pathetic ...

    • ... and there was a sniping post just beside us, and the firing from there went on the whole week and our business ... . They had spent the night (Monday) trying to reach our post, having failed to get into the Union. We had ... into the atmosphere of our post. Up to this the Volunteers' activity had been confined to the interior ...

    • ... 7. the distillery on the other side of the road. From the snipers' post at the back ... . Nick Liston, who occupied a post at the back of the building commanding the back of the Union, was slightly wounded during the week. We bandaged his head and he went back to his post. He was very ...

    • ... 36. which was occupied by a Cumann na mBan First Aid Post to serve a company of the 4th Battalion ... permission to leave our post and we made for the Four Courts. Although we tried all the bridges ... to our First Aid Post and reported. We were not long there when we heard a report that Paddy O'Brien had ...

    • ... differences of the post-Treaty period and I know there were very good men on both sides who lost ...

    • ... 37. of the post - Miss Williamson - sent Lily and me to see whether we could do anything for him and, when we arrived, he was there all right in bed with his head swathed in bandages. He was very glad to see us. He had told us he had been wounded before the building had been blown up and had been ...

    • ... safely, addressed to different persons whose names were supplied to us. We did not post the parcels ...

    • ... to mention it at first. Before we left Kilmainham an English sergeant, who worked in the office and was very ...

    • ... report to her. Some short time after that I. was called into the governor's office again to meet ...

    • ... for to the Governor's office one night after being locked up. He told the I was sentenced to six ...

    • ... to do something about us. I was brought one day to the governor's office and then I was brought ...

  • WS Ref #: 1122 , Witness: Thomas Howley, Officer IRA, Mayo, 1921

    • ... 9. Raids on Post Offices were ordered about this time. I took charge of a party in a raid on Balla Post Office. James Reilly, Brigade Adjutant, was in commandof this operation and we acted under his ... in the neighbourhood. This was a strong post, well provided with steel shutters and barbed wire ...

    • ... had to give up sending messages through the post as we were able to secure copies of all correspondence in this area. A very near relative of mine was running the Post Office and she supplied us ...

  • WS Ref #: 1172 , Witness: James J Riordan, Captain IRA, Cork, 1921

    • ... not sent to Dublin was returned to the Post Office authorities by posting at several Post Offices ... 5. 1918. The second bad been provided by the Battalion 0/C (Seán Moylan). At Easter, 1920, Glashakinleen R.I.C. post (evacuated) was destroyed in accordance with General. H.Q. order. With several ...

    • ... the remainder of 1921 visiting and training the companies in the battalion. When Newmarket R.I.C. post ...

    • ... " who usually spent a lot of time in the office there. Each gave a description of the individual ...

  • WS Ref #: 1275 , Witness: Timothy Warren, Captain, IRA Cork, 1921

    • ... . man tamed Chapman called to the post office and informed the post master that he had received orders ... . Barracks at Ballygurteen had been destroyed and in the destruction the local post box had also been ...

    • ... , Captain, Kenneigh Company, in censoring the mails which were left at the rear of Enniskeane post office ... at 5.30 a.m. and removed the mails for Ballineen and Enniskeane post offices. I remained outside ...

    • ... . I got away to the back of the post office ...

    • ... /Office/Court: Date: 7 March 2003: ...

  • WS Ref #: 1448 , Witness: Patrick Breslin, Officer IRA, Donegal, 1921

    • ... for the, capture of the post. After about two hours I received a report that the operation at the post office was complete, Which report I passed along, and we all returned to an assembly point ... in charge of a section on the main road outside and in front of the R.I.C. barrack. This post, which ...

    • ... place with Pearse in the General Post Office, where. he fought throughout Easter. At the general ...

    • ... that the house could be occupied by the Volunteers for the purpose. of attacking their post in the hall ...

    • ... the station and to post men in favourable positions on both sides of the railway. I was placed ...

    • ... men of the 1st Battalion for an attack on Gienties R.I.C. barracks;. This enemy post was in the 3rd ...

    • ... . There was a British military post at Bunbeg for the purpose of protecting the radio station ...

    • ... Battalion No. 1 Brigade. Much the same tactics were employed as in the previous attack on this post ...

  • WS Ref #: 1459 , Witness: Edward O'Leary, Commandant IRA, Tipperary, 1921

    • ... Cross to Kilcommon village for the purpose of collecting the mails. The R.I.C. post was in Kilcommon Cross and the post office was in the village, the two places being about one mile apart. We were ... . post. We remained on the outskirts of Portroe village in very inclement weather for the whole day ...

    • ... to Silvermines sub post office with Naughton in June, 1921, I believe to dismantle the telephone apparatus. We ... always dealt with such correspondence himself. After my return to the post of brigade adjutant I never ...

    • ... / Office/ Court: Date: 7 March 2003. ...

    • ... on his way, Starr met Captain Hambleton, 0/C of the Nenagh military post, going on a motor-bike ...

    • ... for the time being, and in my own case I resumed the post of brigade adjutant in which rank I ...

    • ... 24. I was glad to be relieved of my post as commander of the Brigade Flying Column. From the beginning I received very little co-operation from the brigade staff, and as time progressed it was getting more and more difficult to get such things as cigarettes for the men who were With me although I ...

    • ... Collins, then Adjutant General, I think. I met him in an office in Bachelor's Walk. He told me to leave ...