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WS Ref #: 1546 , Witness: Anthony Dawson, Lieutenant IRA, Donegal, 1921
... 8. with difficulty prevented any reprisals. At this period we raided the Post Office in Letterkenny and carried off bicycles, telegraph and telephone equipment and stores which we thought might be useful to us later. I got in touch with a British Army Private stationed in Letterkenny. He told me ...
WS Ref #: 81 , Witness: Bulmer Hobson, Member Supreme Council IRB, 1915; General Secretary IV, 1916; Founder Fianna Eireann 1902 (Belfast) and 1909 (Dublin)
... Connolly in the Post office, but looting the shops in O'Connell Street, and I thought of this again ...
... was. I passed down O'Connell Street and saw Volunteers standing on guard at the Post Office ...
... complete charge there, with the same object in view. I arrived early on Good Friday at the Volunteer office after this nigh-long activity, and immediately my office staff arrived, I set them ball to work ...
... THE RISING When the Provisional Committee of the Irish Volunteers was started they met in Wynn's Hotel and used my office at 12 D'Olier Street as an address. Very early in the year 1914 they took two rooms on the first floor of No. 206 Brunswick Street, which was subsequently re-named pearse Street ...
... succeeded a period of slow but steady growth and of incessant work for many of us at Headquarters. I became Honorary General Secretary, and was usually busy in the office from 10 a.m. until midnight. MacNeill was Chief of Staff and Kettle had gone out with the Redmondite nominees. As Honorary ...
... -10- and ignoring the constitution, who joined with Connolly and organised the Insurrection. I had resigned from the Supreme Council in 1914, but I had retained the office of Chairman of the Dublin Centres Board and 'was the officer in charge of the I.R.B. in Dublin in 1916. It was this fact ...
... . O'Connell and Eimer O'Duffy came into my office and, told me that an insurrection bad been planned ...
... -13- Stating that he was on his way in to the Headquarters office. I waited for him in vain for several hours, ad spent the time in hurrying on the destruction of our papers. realised, by this vacillation on MacNeill's part, that it was impossible to take further definite action, and. at any rate ...
WS Ref #: 193 , Witness: Seamus O'Farrell, Member Cumann na nGael, 1907
... in that controversy. Beyond carrying a few messages from the Countess to the Post Office ...
... 8 Beyond Carrying a few Messages From the counties to the port office and to north king St I took no active part in that famous Rinsing Coming From North King St I was arrested on surpesion by military occupying Morkan's Public House at the Corne of Queen St, Neo The Bridle. I was token nude quard ...
WS Ref #: 286 , Witness: Nora O'Brien, nee Connolly; Member Cumann na mBan, 1916; Daughter of James Connolly, executed 1916
... at the General Post Office, and was also Commandant General of the Dublin Division. Two of the ...
... Street that the Volunteers had an office. Then they moved to Great Brunswick Street, and had it near ... there. It was on the first floor of the building, over an arch, near the Queen's Theatre. They had the office ...
WS Ref #: 314 , Witness: Liam O'Carroll, Lieutenant IV, Dublin, 1916; Captain IRA, Dublin, 1921
... -5- we also had Post Office workers, labourers, a painter, a butcher; we had clerical workers and students - Geraghty was a medical student. That is a fair cross- section of them. Lectures were given in Dawson Street. There was a lecture delivered by Pearse on the Saturday or Saturday week before ...
... was with Prank Fahy at his post - the offices of the Incorporated Law Society. He had just received some report from the Four Courts Post Office; and he instructed me to proceed there. On arrival, I found ...
... on the shelf, from which we took the bread. We had no trouble at our post. Once we got ...
WS Ref #: 349 , Witness: Bernard Reilly, Constable RIC, Kerry, 1916; Witness of arrest of Casement and seizure of 'Aud', 1916
... -2- a report from the Local Post Office to Tralee. The Sergeant told me he had information that three men were seen coming from the direction of the place where the boat landed and it was quite possible they might be taking shelter or getting some refreshments in nearby houses. The information ...
WS Ref #: 379 , Witness: Jeremiah Mee, Constable RIC, Kerry, 1919 -1920; Led mutiny RIC, Listowel, 1920
... :- "Sir Neville Macready, who is leaving for Ireland shortly to take up his new post as Commander ... in aggression. Some short time previously, Inspector-General Sir J.A. Byrne was removed from office and his ...
... -36- her office. She said. that, after our first meeting at the Labour Party's offices, Collins ... her point, she decided to take me into her own office and that, if I proved to be a 'wrong one', she ... of the fact that I was very much on probation during the first weeks in my new office. Looking back ...
... up, the carriage in which I was travelling stopped just in front of the Stationmaster's office. I walked straight into the office and then into an inner room off the Office where I waited until all ...
... Inspector's office with the door closed. Colonel Smyth's uniform cap was still on the dayroom table. District Inspector Flanagan and Head Constable Plover went into the District Inspector's office and joined ...
... and cold - blooded murder were an everyday occurrence. I attende4 at the office every day but had little ... , Sligo and Leitrim as well. As I had already made many contacts with R.I.C. men while in the office ...
... -4- in writing for refusing to co-operate with the military, he would submit those reasons to the proper quarter. He left the dayroom and went into the District Inspector's office which was just across the hall from the dayroom where we were on parade. In due course we submitted our reasons ...
... in to Flanagan's office and informed, him on behalf of the men that, while we appreciated the fact that he ...
... from one visit from the County Inspector in which he called me into the District Inspector's office ...
... -23- brother, Captain Smyth, who had an appointment in the War Office, volunteered for service in Ireland to avenge his brother's death. He was shot dead. while raiding Professor Carolan's house in Drumcondra on the occasion when Dan Breen and Sean Treacy escaped. When Colonel Smyth was dead, Lloyd ...
... military officer, did not resign through cowardice but was probably removed from office under the same ...
... at the shock the visitor would get. On one occasion the late Joe McDonagh called at her office, dressed ...
... . They have since left the country. hat does ex Constable Mee think of this?". Although our head office ...
WS Ref #: 387 , Witness: Patrick O'Daly, Lieutenant Fianna Eireann, 1913 - 1916; Lieutenant IV, Dublin, 1913 - 1916; Member ASU, 1920 -1921
... active until twelve noon on the day of the Truce. In tact there vas a section at Ballsbridge post office ...
... Section 8(4).) Moloney Name: (J. Moloney.) Grade: Col. Department/ Office/ Court: Date: 7 March 2003. ...
... on hibotnro' Rood. I think it was b. 80, it is post ylo's Oornor oppocite thO pioturehoue, the Iaot ...
... tIQY eec'ted him. Shootirit of DeteqtJo Office 1i1ton In er about name tIU)Q, Apr11 1920, we rocoived ...
... -60- like poem. Re gave a doeoription of iat 1zapøned, lay in aU tho blame on the mob. The office' t3tatod he canted to know hat I bad done, not What the ob had done. I1ie coler told them that tho mob britaUy bect once opat on the oiergyman and that I atruck in the prieet'o afld on dofonoe ...
... office: told Mu to come along. Thçj ooaraho4 tb bouoe and found nothing. ...
WS Ref #: 411 , Witness: Eamon Morkan, Brigade Officer, Waterford, 1919
... , although in a subordinate capacity, was John or Jim McCloskey who held the post of porter and general ... , Limerick, Waterford, Tralee, Enniscorthy and Macroom. Later the head office of the bank transferred from ...
... and as a consequence the Home Office decided to interview all the prisoners in the Camp. The court sat ...
... -17- I was removed together with Seán Neela, B.J. O'Driscoll and four others to Reading Jail on the instructions of the Home Office. On arrival at Reading Jail, where there were a number of men whose names are now very familiar to the Irish people, I found that conditions while slightly similar ...
... -20- The parade took place on a Sunday, and on the following Monday morning orders were received from the head office of the National Bank in London suspending me from duty until an explanation had been received from me justifying my taking public part in such an activity. which participation ...
WS Ref #: 505 , Witness: Sean Moylan, OC 3 Southern Division IRA, 1921; Member Dail Cabinet 1951 - 1954
... of the Department of Education which employed me. My application was turned down, and in the office ... at the time was £2 a week and I could not afford to give it up as I had to eat or so I thought. Post treaty ...
... 26 No. 88. Key to No. 87. PHOTOGRAPH OFLINE ENGRAVING. Engraving: 11.8x19.4". Frame: 12.8"x20.2" Engraved and publ. by R. Turner, Newcastle-on-Tyne, 1873. No. 89. Scene at the General Post Office, Dublin, beforethe evacuation, Easter Week, 1916. HALF TONE. Print: 11.4"x19". Frame: 19.7"x26.2 ...
... Post Office, and top ofNelson Pillar inthe backgronnd to the left. 161. Theruins ofMiddle Abbey ...
... 36 134. Hugh Mac Caughwell, O.F.M. 1572-1626. Archbishop of Armagh. Photograph (sepia): 7.8"x4.6". Frame: 13.5"x9.5". Presented by Fr. Sylvester O'Brien, O.F.M., Assisi Office, Dublin, September, 1944. No. 135. Luke Wadding,O.F.M., 1588-1657. Founderof St. Isidore's College, Rome,1625. PHOTOGRAPH ...
... Dictnt. Singula Sena Baro. Presented by Fr. SylvesterO'Brien, O.F.M., Assisi Office, Dublin, March ...