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WS Ref #: 1687 , Witness: Harry Colley, Officer IV, 1915 - 1919; Adjutant IRA, Dublin Brigade, 1920 - 1921
... was the General Sorting Office of the Post Office at that period. The Castle mails were now ... that the officers in charge met by appointment that morning at 7 a.m. at the Ballast Office to ...
... limited time, in the presence of Post Office officials, without the firing of a single shot ...
... Post Office where they called regularly to collect the mails for Beggars Bush Barracks, which ...
... of the Irish Citizen Army men who had retired from the Mail Office after the fight there. If my memory serves ... of the fight at the City Hail and Evening Mail Office. ...
... in a Corporation Office in Exchange Buildings, Lord Edward Street. Dick McKee attended at this meeting and took ... at the Typographical Union Office in Lower Gardiner Street, and waited from 5.15 p.m. to 7.30 p.m. for Dick ...
... to the Will Room, in which was stored copies of all Wills that weht through the Estate Duty Office, which ... of the building, under the dome. The Estate Duty Office was on the next floor and was lighted from the dome ...
... private Post Offices in various shops, and ...
... been through enough for one day. In some ingenious way of his own he hid them in the newel post ...
... ambush that I had sent him the previous night. He brought me back to the Adjutant- General's office ...
... 69. then proceeded up Middle Abbey Street to about where the "Irish Independent" Office is. These buildings were at that time all in course of erection. About that spot I saw another patrol crossing the top and after again waiting a few minutes I again attempted to leave but found a further patrol ...
... in the lock. He carried that key to a little office at the corner of the main building of the Custom House ...
... to the enemy such as Income Tax Arrears Office, which it was vital to burn so as to hinder the functioning ...
... was wounded but had been got away. He died a few days later. That evening in the Brigade Office there ...
... 84. the Stamping Office, as inflammable, when reporting to the O/C. It was quite clear that the fire had got a fierce hold on the ink in that department. As is now well known, the fire burned for ten days, the whole building was completely destroyed, and its destruction struck the mightiest blow ...
... 66. Corporation Office in Parliament Street about 6.50 p.m. and immediately saw a patrol of soldiers moving towards Grattan Bridge. I drew back to let them proceed and, if possible, find the direction in which they were moving. After a few minutes I got on my bicycle and went over the bridge. I ...
WS Ref #: 1716 , Witness: Sean MacKeon, OC Longford Brigade IRA, 1921; Member Dail Eireann, 1929; Cabinet Minister, 1948
... appendix "D" I.R.A. COMMAND POST Auxiliary Found Cover Here ...
... , Roscommon. (She worked in the Post Office.) Miss Baxter, Ardagh. Miss Annie Duffy, Ballinalee. Mrs ...
BMH.WS1716pt2.pdf, on page 131
... Lieut. M. Kenny in charge of that post. I had been about two hours in bed when a dispatch ... the Rose Cottage post, and it simply amounted to mutiny. He claimed that the original position in which he ... the authority of Seán Connolly and, having ordered Lieutenant Kenny to maintain the post at Rose Cottage, I ...
... inclusion in his statement and other controversies was held office at various Justice and Minister for Defence, when holding the latter office documents and narratives as the This material was edited as a chronological MacCarthy of this office, and early in 1956, together with a as to episodes requiring ...
... the which they held in the Government signatory held a particular office the signatories to the President ... as a there is no doubt whatever that or office similar to those of the State and by the various 1918, the Irish ... . it carried out the same procedure The election of a Ceann with, and Cathal Brugha became office ...
BMH.WS1716pt1.pdf, on page 134
... -3- statement would be sent to the office. Some time before midnight, Mr. Duggan, accompanied by Mr. Michael Collins, arrived at the office and dictated the following to the Irish Times night reporter - Official Statement. Sinn Fein's Attitude. It was officially stated last night on behalf of Dail ...
BMH.WS1716pt2.pdf, on page 207
... 197. communication, which was a very simple and very old method. That is another story. When the excitement had died down, I was blandly informed that the Governor was now ready to receive me, not in his usual office but in a cell at the end of C (I) Wing, and all interviews with the Governor ...
BMH.WS1716pt2.pdf, on page 204
... such steps as were necessary to be in the Governor's office, and remain there for that time. When I ... in the Governor's office, escorted by an Auxiliary officer and a warder. I succeeded in remaining in the office with the ...
BMH.WS1716pt1.pdf, on page 136
... to wreck an Irish settlement. Why the Irish edition of the "Morning Post' play the game for once ...
BMH.WS1716pt2.pdf, on page 152
... assumed that there would be a post mortem on him". There never was a post mortem. I may also mention ...
BMH.WS1716pt1.pdf, on page 135
... to our office on Sunday night by two members of Dell Eireann. On this same (Tuesday, 9 August, 1921 ...
BMH.WS1716pt2.pdf, on page 205
... then sent a despatch to Collins, informing him that I could be in the Governor's office ... In the Governor's office, and remained there for about the same time, with the same result ...
BMH.WS1716pt2.pdf, on page 181
... with started for home. to the Adjutant General's office Department. He had also gone to and had secured one ...
BMH.WS1716pt2.pdf, on page 219
... " office at midnight, and handed in the following statement:- "It was officially stated that there can ...
... 23. Q. is it not a thing you would notice at once? A. Not' necessarily My only concern as to see whether the man was within medical and when I found he was dead I did not pay any more attention to him because I assumed there would be a post mortem later. Q. Did you notice any mar of burning round ...
BMH.WS1716pt2.pdf, on page 104
... from by-passing the post at Gorvagh, telephone wires and, where available, McGoldrick, Director ...
BMH.WS1716pt2.pdf, on page 126
... 116. intentions to Father Montford. The young officer whom Father Clancy had just shrived was attached to my own staff and returned to is post jubilantly. Every man of the column was then prepared, and, if needs be, ready and willing to lay down his life. Just as we had settled down at our ...
BMH.WS1716pt2.pdf, on page 127
... 117. The enemy Commander blew a single blast of a whistle, and the eleventh lorry turned and fell into line with the other ten. That was grand, as the entire enemy force was then in one compact body in front of my post. I ordered my section on to the road and to lie over on the roadway at the rear ...
BMH.WS1716pt2.pdf, on page 146
... that the house was not private property, but an enemy post. Smith's house at Rathmore suffered a like fate ...
BMH.WS1716pt2.pdf, on page 158
... an ambush position, Granard and Ballinalee, My decision was to place Montford's house, a post which ...
BMH.WS1716pt2.pdf, on page 159
... of in a fort overlooking the road, and fifty yards distant.: The post, from where I was in close ...
BMH.WS1716pt2.pdf, on page 209
... by the police, or from natural causes. There had been no inquest and no post-mortem examination ...
BMH.WS1716pt1.pdf, on page 104
... 15 A Yes, I did; and he told me himself about it. At one time a Corporal came own from the Adjutant's Office to get his correct name and address and I entered the cell and leaned up against the wall with a piece of paper to reached take down his name and address and he reached up to me and caught ...
BMH.WS1716pt2.pdf, on page 137
... and his Headquarters Staff; that the Government had been voted into office by the elected Parliament ...
BMH.WS1716pt2.pdf, on page 168
... on the outside with General Collins' office stamp, but was enclosed in General Collins' outer envelope ...
BMH.WS1716pt2.pdf, on page 170
... 160. was led into his office, before, but with whom sitting at his desk. welcomed by him in a sit down, and then, in efficient manner of one was intimate with his questioned me upon my particularly over the As I had brought with one could understand question with a promptness soon glad to note ...
BMH.WS1716pt2.pdf, on page 174
... on the afternoon of Friday, let it be!", and we there on it, in Cathal Brugha's office, 1st March, 1921. ...
BMH.WS1716pt2.pdf, on page 175
... the London mission went off, to report at the office (Richard Mulcahy), to submit my of the line ...
BMH.WS1716pt2.pdf, on page 215
... 205. Frank Hemming private emissary of Mr. Lloyd George, also an assistant secretary in the Chief Secretary's Office had been sent to Ireland by the British Prime Minister, to bring to justice the murderer of Canon Magner, and to be his chief officer in conveying information and making confidential ...
BMH.WS1716pt2.pdf, on page 217
... 207. must be regarded as confidential during his life-time or while in the service, that he proposed to write about this and other incidents during his term of office in Dublin, and I believe that he informed the Bureau of Military History, in reply to a query from them, that he would do so. I am ...
WS Ref #: 882 , Witness: Thomas McEllistrim, Officer IV and IRA, Kerry, 1916 - 1921; OC ASU
... morning from Castleisland Post Office to the Barracks. I was in charge of this party and it was decided ...
... post in that town would endanger the lives of scores of civilians whose houses were within a few yards ...
... Gortatlea Barrack surrender there was no enemy post left in Ballymacelligott. In June, 1920, a road ...
WS Ref #: 907 , Witness: Laurence Nugent, Officer IV and IRA, Dublin, 1913 - 1921
... on the Bulletin next morning just the same. On March 3rd a raid was made on the General Post Office in the Rotunda ...
... a post office. These two ... themselves in a somewhat similar position. The H.Q. office was no longer safe. Mrs. Woods called to Baggot St ...
... 20. Post Office when the famous mails were captured. We had Sgt. Jack O'Connell at Westland Row. We had Jack DArmen and Lieut. Bohen in the Fire Brigade in Tara Street, who did great work for the I.R.A; Peter Keating, a distinguished Headquarters I.0. in the Civil War, and myself, who acted ...
... 104. The children broke loose from schools. All over the city were wonderful signs of rejoicing. 'Young Ireland was on the march'. The writ for East Clare was issued on the following day. The men who entered the ruins of the Post Office for the purpose of hoisting the Republican flag were arrested ...
... 110. it was discovered that the light was only the reflection of a lamp from a distant farm house. Before the counting of the votes finished next day, when J.J. Walsh and myself discovered that de Valera's majority was going to be big we went to the Post Office and wired our friends, with whom we ...
... would call to the New Ireland Insurance Office in Dawson Street and would Mick meet him there. Mick ... these despatches by post or otherwise. They were generally ladies. Some correspondence dealing ...
... on the Irish Bulletin office in Molesworth St. None of the staff was arrested but the office ...
... . This helped to keep the crowd away from the secret office in Mount St., which office as few people ... more. Capt. Cullen did not oblige. His office in Suffolk St. was also raided by the military. His ...
... post at Baggot St. bridge and that there was a machine gun in this post. Of course this was not true ...
... 187. Again the raids started. A big raid took place in the south city area where some arrests were made. On April 15th Capt. Cullen's office was raided twice and the streets were cordoned off for most of the day. They Were very anxious to get him, but once again they failed. His office and papers ...
... and interviews, but it passed unnoticed. A Swedish journalist visited the office and he published ... the address o the secret office in Dublin. He posted his paper in Sweden and addressed it to: Desmond ...
... in the office knew nothing of this affair. It would not have served any useful purpose in telling them ... to move, and the office and staff were only at few days gone when the British military arrived ...
... 168. CHAPTER XIII Swearing in of Volunteers. Temporary Sinn Féin Offices. The 'Irish Bulletin' Secret Office. List of British Authorities. The Code Word. Shooting of Detectives. Attacks on Newspaper Offices. Jury Packing. Seizure of Mails. Raids, arrests and Hunger Strikes. The Food situation ...
... Éireann was also proclaimed. On September 12th Detective Hoey was shot outside the detective office ...
... every nerve to find this secret office, but they never got the slightest hint from these world pressmen ...
... a post in a chemist shop in Clare St. Dr. Sigerson was walking up and down the footpath outside his ...
... . Nugent had only time to catch the evening train back to Dublin. Rory would not trust the post ...
... . The Morning Post, in criticising the Government in Ireland for what that paper considered carelessness ...
... 127. Post was sounded and an oration was delivered by Mick Collins as follows:- "Nothing additional remains to be said. The volleys which we have just heard is the only speech which is proper to make over the grave of a dead Fenian." Most Reverend Dr. Walsh, Archbishop of Dublin, sent his carriage ...
... descriptions was completely suspended. The Post Offices and Schools were closed. Had the British ...
... to Kilmainham Barracks, a very useful post from which to get information. Station Sergt. Fennessy was a very ...
... to take up a lucrative post in the new Government but my mind was made up and I continued ...
... ? There was no post-mortem or enquiry as to the cause of death, and no one ever knew what type of bullet killed him ...
... 40. that the Castle would be easily captured when the attack was made and a number of high officials captured, as a Privy Council meeting was in progress when the attack was made, I was also informed that a red negative photo plate was in the Intelligence office in the Castle showing that James ...
... appeals to his office to save de Valera and that President Wilson did intervene with the British ...
... of Nassau Street, he going to his office to do a day's professional work and I on my way home to bed ...
... 119. without ammunition. This permit was signed 'F.D. Ackland of the Foreign Office.' William Cosgrave, the Sinn féin candidate, was elected for Kilkenny City by a majority of two to one. A Sinn Féin victory meeting was announced to be held in Westmoreland Street, Dublin. This meeting ...
... Eckersley a position in the office as book-keeper. There was a lot of unemployment in the city ...
... at the Bank of Ireland. I explained the position and they sent me to Jack Cotter who had an office ...
... the Dáil Publicity Department established its office there. Desmond Fitzgerald was then Minister ...
... in his office during curfew hours. On the evening and night of 19-20th February 1920 a raid for arms ...
... Éireann principal office). On March 26th Alan Ben was shot in Ballsbridge. Within a few hours ...
... hunger strikes. He would turn into the office early in the morning and I have seen him at very busy ...
... 194. the Bulletin he would proceed to the Adjutant's Department in the I.R.A. office at Brunswick Street for 2 or 3 hours at night: but that was how the fight was carried on. Men such as he doing an enormous amount of work and the public rarely heard their names mentioned. On one occasion, while ...
... . Intelligence Office. On July 19th Inspector Smith of Listowel fame was shot in Cork City. He had been ...
... to visit his office during the night and have his work brought to him where he was staying while ...
... St., Dublin. He was getting near Mick Collins's office in the street and he was already a convicted ...
... 232. backdoor negotiations. He also refused to agree to decisions which were being discussed as to What terms would be accepted short of complete independence. The I.R.A. had a man in the Auxiliaries' office at Beggars Bush Barracks ( a very dangerous position). A Dublin lady who was well known ...
... to a man. In these cases despatches were left with Miss Pilkinton in the Booking Office and she handed ...
... in an office for any length of time, and at a period when they came to a standstill, one of them came to me ...
... office, but she was most reliable and always knew where to go. And so the officer from the south did ...
... It back to the office which would have been a loss of time, she came to me in Baggot St. She knew she ...
WS Ref #: 1019 , Witness: Alfred Bucknill, Judge Advocate General to British Forces, Dublin, 1916
... that after the rebels had been driven art of the post office by the fire raging then. They collected ...
... the cars and drove away to Royal Hospital. St was impossible to go direct as the fire cants & the Post office was heed by the rebels & mere was no other way except to go round by the bosh circular Road. We ...
... as the Four Courts and the Post Office were held by the rebels and there was no other way except to go ...
... the rebels had been driven out of the Post Office by the fire raging there, they collected in the side ...
... ROINN GNOTHAI EACHTRACHA DEPARTMENT OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS BAILE ATHA CLIATH DUBLIN 1 August, 1951 A Chara, Our Ambassador in London recently met Lord Justice Bucknill, who has retired from the post of Lord Justice of Appeal. He told Mr. Boland that he was Deputy Judge Advocate General of the British ...
... but it was only recently they were returned from the office of the former Taoiseach, who has retained three ...
... 15 Meán Fómhair, 1951. Rúnaí, Roinn Gnóthaí Eachtraha. With reference to your letter of lst ultimo, regarding Lord Justice Bucknill, who recently retired from the post of Lord Justice of Appeal, the Director would be grateful if the Ambassador in London would approach the Lord Justice and ask him ...
WS Ref #: 1192 , Witness: Jeremiah Kennedy, Captain IRA, Kerry, 1921
... . We posted a man In the Post Office to prevent anyone using the phone and other men. held the road ...
... duck eggs away from him. I courtmartialled him for leaving his post. He was dismissed from the I.R.A ...
WS Ref #: 1250 , Witness: John O'Driscoll, Captain IRA, Cork, 1921
... , Mryboro, Timoleague. Denis O'Driscoll, See. Comm., Timoleague. Taken from Timoleague Post Office ...
... , Ambush at Oaggin. Timothy Keohane, Ballinroher. Armed. Dimnantling of Timoleague Post Office ...
... was situated 21/2 miles from a Black and Tan post at Kilbrittain, six miles from Bandon and 15 miles ...
... them. The R. I. C. barracks at Timoleagte and Timoleague Castle which had been a British military post ...
WS Ref #: 1361 , Witness: M.B. Gerald Davis, Officer IRA, Westmeath, 1921
... 19. young men in the Athlone Brigade area but it was a very hard area to operate. I was arrested about the middle of May 1921. There was a man called O'Brien who worked in the Post Office in Athlone who was supposed to be rendering very valuable service as regards intelligence, but otherwise I have ...
WS Ref #: 1436 , Witness: Walter Brown, Officer IRA, Fingal, 1917 - 1921
... -14- whom we were suspicious of. The people in the post office in Duleek and Garristown were working for us. wholeheartedly, and when their suspicions were aroused by some letter passing through, they would hold it for us. We would check on it, and then repost it. I joined the I.R.B. at the time I ...
... , mostly in sheds and suchlike. We kept a watching post on the Hill of Garristown at night. This hill ...
WS Ref #: 1464 , Witness: Con Spain, Commandant IRA, Tipperary, 1921
... was involved was the dismantling of the telephone in Puckane sub-post office. This was purely ...
... , 1920, in the vicinity of. the post office in Castle St., now Pearse St. It was expected ...
... the post vacated by him. There were no further changes in the personnel of the company officers until ... . The latter post was then given to James Murray, and he in turn was succeeded as 2nd Lt. by John O'Brien ...
... was not regarded as suitable for the post. Around the same time the company was divided into four ...