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  • WS Ref #: 601 , Witness: Henry S Murray, Officer IV and IRA, Dublin, 1914 - 1921

    • ... of the General Post Office the Irish Volunteers were an unbeaten force when ordered to surrender ...

    • ... and esprit de corps. In the post 1916 period the military leadership and organisation was of a much higher ...

    • ... ; the Volunteer officers were inactive and as there was no British military post and the local Royal ...

    • ... of some importance but the British could not establish a military post there in 1920 for the reason ...

  • WS Ref #: 618 , Witness: Sean M O'Duffy, Lieutenant IV Dublin, 1916; Registrar and Organiser, Republican Courts, 1920 -1921

    • ... to the prisoners, he handed me the following letter:- "The bearer has been most useful to me over post office work for the Irish, the distribution of letters and the opening of parcels for censor purposes ...

    • ... Prisoners complain regarding absence of facilities for attendance at Mass. War Office sends ...

    • ... -8- all such oases, speculation was rife as to the reasons for this sudden call. When we arrived, the officer addressed us thus "I have been sent by the War Office to hear of any complaints regarding your conditions other than confinement in this prison and, if anyone wishes to make a case, he can ...

    • ... office in Dame Street when he took a note of what we had to say. During the year 1917 we had made much ...

  • WS Ref #: 643 , Witness: Kathleen Napoli-McKenna, Typist Dail Eireann, 1921

    • ... in the rush at post time, cold and damp were forgotten. In a flat in Belvedere Road where I lived ... of the long sought for Bulletin office. (Signed) Kathleen McKenna, August, 1951. (12, Via Monte, Monteperticu ...

    • ... , inserted the folded Bulletin, and we set out to post some to London and to deliver others to the Dublin ... upon was a Sinn Fein office occupied by Paidin O'Keeffe, situated over the Farm Produce shop ...

    • ... ROINN COSANTA. BUREAU OF MILITARY HISTORY, 1913-21. STATEMENT BY WITNESS DOCUMENT NO. W.S. 643 Witness Mrs. Cathleen Napoli-McKenna, 12 Via Monte, Monteparticu, Viterbo, Italy. Identity. Typist in Dail Eireann Propaganda Office, 1919-1921. Subject. "The Irish Bulletin" 1919-1921. Conditions, if any ...

    • ... necessarily to be got out secretly, the staff moving from one office to another according as a raid looked likely. We were now in an office in Molesworth Street. ...

    • ... arrest and awaiting the arrival of a trusted locksmith to open the office doors, the keys of which I ... to a lorry, but could not ascertain if it were the Bulletin office. Next morning I was with Barney Mellows on the opposite pavement but still did not know if the office had been "got". We ...

    • ... as he set up another office elsewhere. Frank Gallagher brought the edited material of the Bulletin ... established in the office of the Crown Solicitors just beneath us. Seamus, our new messenger was sent out ...

    • ... , the stencil attached to the machine which he approached with a pretence of helping the nature of the office ... , 1919, our Molesworth Street office was raided by armed British forces and everything including ...

    • ... after the Truce. The Bulletin was delivered by hand and by post under covering addresses, parcels ...

    • ... room where I was typing on his way to his private office. In the course of the afternoon Arthur ...

    • ... 5. whereabouts of the office helped me. When I had prepared many copies, I slipped them into a case and succeeded in getting through the cordon and went to the McGilligan house, 32, Dr. Leeson Street where Kathleen had already addressed the envelopes. That evening the Bulletin circulated as usual ...

  • WS Ref #: 676 , Witness: Liam A Brady, Officer Fianna Eireann, Derry, 1920 - 1922

    • ... 100. During the time Seamus Cavanagh was in prison Joseph was in prison Joseph O'Dohe.Dty became O.C. of the City for about three months. During that time the Custom House and Tax Office jobs were ... Barracks, the shooting of Policemen and the attack on the Military Post, Strand Road. Sergeant ...

    • ... them of their rifles. Two Volunteers were told to stand guard at the General Post Office corner ...

    • ... 3. Page 44. Fianna Scouts. for I.R.A. Columns. 72 45. General description of column work in Co. Donegal. 72 46. 1st Northern Division of I.R.A. formed. 75 47. Rescue of Comdt. F. Carty from Derry Prison. 75 48. Bombing of military post at Strand road. 78 49. A second Flying Column leaves Derry ...

    • ... McGandy a strong well built young man who always came back with a full bag. Being a post man ...

    • ... 43. place arranged, carried out the raid and took away some shotguns and ammunition. A daring one man raid was carried out on the General Post Officer where Te1ehone Apparatus was taken. This was later used to tap the Telephone wires leading to Victoria Barracks. Valuable information was received ...

    • ... far when we realised that there was a second sentry onthe same post. One of the boys made a noise ...

    • ... 73. in small groups to Glendowan. The cars could only proceed as far as Churchill Sign Post as trenches had been dug and bridges blown up by the local I.R.A. The first groups to land waited on the rest of the Boys. Then they all set out on foot for Glendowan, a distance of five miles. After a short ...

    • ... . Barracks, the Rosemount R.I.C. Barracks and the Strand Military Post. Plans were hurriedly made ...

    • ... for a dangerous and tricky job. The bombing of the military sandbag post at the Electric Light Station ...

    • ... yards away was the Military Post and although there was a wall which saved them from View they could ...

    • ... a Company of Soldiers making haste in the direction of the Strand Post. The second Flying Column left Derry ...

    • ... office could no longer carry out their work the lists were typed by D.J. Shiels. I ran them off ...

  • WS Ref #: 789 , Witness: Denny Mullane, Captain IRA, Cork, 1921

  • WS Ref #: 1645 , Witness: Patrick Lyons, Captain IV and IRA, County Mayo, 1917 - 1921

    • ... it at Bohola Post Office, so with a few comrades we started for Kiltimagh where all the mails from ...

    • ... , distributing Redmonite leaflets. He went into the Post Office for a stamp and left, his bundle of literature ...

  • WS Ref #: 1770 , Witness: Kevin O'Shiel, Judicial Commissioner, Dail Land Courts, 1920 -1922

    • ... and Post Office Committee. To mark the affiliation of 'Church' and State, even chaplains were appointed ...

    • ... rebel in the Post Office could have been. The first rift in the heavy cloud of despondency that hung ...

    • ... 117. Minister by Henry Herbert Asquith, the latter's post of Chancellor of the Exchequer being bestowed on that then radical stormypetrel, David Lloyd George, the little Welsh attorney, returned ... presented itself. In his new post he soon found himself well provided with such opportunites ...

    • ... its post-war invasion by the women mainly for that merciful piece of progress. I have endeavoured ... the Post trivial, may be of some assistance in the future to the student of those times, enabling ...

    • ... the post of Chief Imperial General Staff, the most coveted and influential position in the British army". At the time of the Curragh Mutiny he ranked as a MajorGeneral, and held the important key post ...

    • ... rebellion, secured the high law-and-order post of Attorney General. Redmond was offered a port-folio but refused it; and, when it leaked out that that port-folio was the minor post of Postmaster-General ...

    • ... on their barracks. By such means did the I.R.A. arm itself. Furthermore, there were raids on post ... of such happenings. Side by side with he account of an attack on a barracks or military or police post ...

    • ... for that consent. Asquith and some of his colleagues were believed to have a deep aversion to take office ... them and resumed office again as Prime Minister of a Liberal Government. Thus, the first "battle ...

    • ... office of Prime Minister, and he delighted in his House of Commons life, for that was the place ... office as a Liberal and not as a Conservative, he would clearly have been much more! at home as ...

    • ... attendant was the Lord Mayor himself, who, from having graduated to his high office along ... and, vesting himself in all the panoply of his State robes of office, replete with gold chain and sword ...

    • ... anxious for the War Office to take over the National Volunteers, equip them with special uniforms ... in the War Office feared an armed and well-trained Irish Brigade under its own officers returning after ...

    • ... , but Irish matters, as managed by the War Office, were much worse. Carson also had seen Kitchener ... and their own overt and grievous snubbing by the War Office were big elements in the slowing down ...

    • ... , the War Office replenished the badly shattered ranks of English infantry battalions by Irish recruits ... by the War Office transferring the entire artillery of the (16th) Irish Division to the Guards regiments ...

    • ... in the office of the late Frank O'Connor, solicitor; he was a quiet, retiring man, who certainly took ... on the morning of Easter Saturday, asking me to go to Frank O'Connor's law office in John Street, where ...

    • ... that there was something serious and grave in the air. I went to the office, as arranged, at 8 o'clock that evening ... of O'Connor's office in John St., I was admitted by Peter Haughey, who led me into an inner back room ...

    • ... to the office. The work of the firm of "J. McCann, C.E., Land Valuer" continued undisturbed in their rooms in North Earl Street all during that strenuous period. Through some miracle the office escaped ...

    • ... morning, on my Dail business, generally into the Land Court Office in Westmoreland St ... to be abroad, travelling in Ireland. Even walking through the city to my Dail Land Court Office, could ...

    • ... 808. Ceanntair met. I was, of course, not a member; neither was Eamon Donnelly who was also present, nor, I imagine, old Dobbyn from Belfast. The President was a good chairman, and was re-elected to that post, despite the fact that some ignorant bigot raised the question of his religion - the one ...

    • ... 825. substantial Unionist margin in the register of voters would, I felt, from the start, provide adequately against that. Another circumstance that, was of enormous help to the Unionists was that the terrible and deadly post-war "black flu" was raging furiously throughout the constituency ...

    • ... 1,015. the Commission it set up would consist of one "Legal Commissioner" and two "Lay Commissioners" to be appointed by the President of Dáil Éireann, after consultation with the Minister for Agriculture. The Legal Commissioner, and every successor in his office, was to be a person who ...

    • ... ), a post he held till his death in 1947. Bit by bit the Nationalist organisation spread and grew throughout ...

    • ... , often Irish ones, to entrain for their post of embarkation for South Africa. And, to the no small ...

    • ... , to the important post of Under-Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant. Lord Dunraven, an enlightened landlord ...

    • ... . Dublin. Two years later, in 1907, Bryce was sent to Washington as Ambassador, and his post of Chief ...

    • ... 173. Victorian homes 1 must say that those unarranged and largely impromptu sessions, composed of barely post-adolescents, in which every subject under the sun was touched on, until the sun reappeared in the sky above the Campanile, had a really extra-ordinarily wide educational value. Youth ...

    • ... and unrewarded services to his country by this patriotic Irishman. Trinity was, of course, a post ...

    • ... Post" actually broached all-round federal Home Ru4, and was followed, in similar vein ...

    • ... even if under cover of the post! And, growing more and more daring as time went on, and more and more ...

    • ... statutory oath of secrecy, an essential pre-requisite for a holder of his high and confidential post ...

    • ... , and remedied it was in the only way it could be; a crude and clumsy ex post facto way. Redmond ...

    • ... Mutiny occurred. There was then, of course, no need to do so, for, as the "Morning Post' wrote ...

    • ... and faded away in the post-war years? The intense feeling for Belgium and sympathy with her in her ...

    • ... issued in pamphlet form by the "New Ireland Printing & Publishing Co. Ltd.", post free 7d. There is also ...

    • ... 674. procession to proceed unmolested through the thronged and reverently silent streets, despite the fact that the coffin was escorted by armed and uniformed Volunteers. At the graveside, a squad of Volunteers fired three volleys, and the "Last Post" was sounded. Michael Collins gave the oration ...

    • ... 686. with suppressed excitement and anxiety. After a minute elapsed, which seemed an hour1 Griffith rose and, to the astonishment of all, including his closest friends, announced that he was not going forward for the post and thereupon withdrew his nomination. He declared he wished to retire ...

    • ... warning, peremptorily. The post eleven o'clock sitting was possible because of the hotel character ...

    • ... 722. Mick held highly responsible, top-level post in both the Volunteers and in the political movement, being Director of Intelligence in the former and ultimately Minister for Finance in the Dáil in which capacity he was responsible for the financing of the whole invisible Government, both on its ...

    • ... in Dublin. The post could not be used, of course, and the only method of transmission was the personal one ...

    • ... 735. American Quaker Relief to Ireland), Jeffries of the "Daily Mail", and Bretterton, the notorious but bitingly clever "Morning Post" reporter. I often heard Gogarty in the Bailey pressing A.G. to come to his Friday evening, but he never could be persuaded to do so. Somehow, I could never see ...

    • ... that the people had confirmed him in his post. I took part in that election, and a very rowdy one ...

    • ... fever, engendered by the post-Easter Rising executions, having spent itself. And Lloyd-George and his ...

    • ... . My duties were, as the title of my post indicated, of a general supervisory character, co-ordinating ...

    • ... barracks, with its garrison holding the post for England and dominating the countryside. The R.I.C. were ...

    • ... , for the cattle graze without a herdsman in the hedged-in fields, in the centre of which a solitary post ...

    • ... their feet. That post-war craze of wild and reckless spending and extravagahce was bad enough; but what ...

    • ... of the prime executives of the Dáil Government. He rightly felt that, occupying such a post; he should ...

    • ... , was Secretary and Solicitor of the Purchasing Committee, to which post he was appointed on February 23rd ...

    • ... that in the Irish Office in London he occupied a room immediately over Balfour's office, and was at Balfour's ...

    • ... of in Ireland prior to that time. The functions attaching to the office of Election Agent involved not only ...

    • ... of the Parnellite faction, was elected Chairman of the reunited Irish Party, an office that he held. till his death ...

    • ... hat and frock coat, with his white wand of office; the sub-sheriff, the military and police officers ...

    • ... 118. He took office when the last Asquith Budget - that of 1908-909 - and the Old Age Pensions Bill were in their last stages. Re had no serious difficulty in piloting those measures through Parliament, or in financing the latter by extending the new levy of super-tax (inspired first by Asquith ...

    • ... 177. led by the Mayoral State carriage, drawn by a fine pair of horses carrying his Lordship, resplendent in magnificent scarlet and gold robes, with the heavy chain of office round his shoulders, with his lady, his chaplain and the city mace-bearer. Following him, in other carriages, came ...

    • ... were not to be despised or sneezed at. After all, every office has, or should have, its particular ...

    • ... with Irish Nationalists and Labour and kept in office wholly by the goodwill of the former. The election ...

    • ... , and certainty of direction of his Liberal predecessors in office, and far from possessing ...

    • ... 239. returning again and again for his assurance, and always receiving the same answer. Asquith appeared to be adamant that the Budget must first be presented to the Commons, and in essentially the same form as it had left the last House. If the Irish wanted to turn the Liberals out of office ...

    • ... had not been long in office before Toy intentions ...

    • ... 308. And this is. the man who advised his successor in office, as Chief Secretary for Ireland, Augustine Birrell, (as stated in his "Memoirs" published in 1923) on no account to repeal the Act prohibiting the Importation of arms into Ireland. On this point he writes in his book: "When a short time ...

    • ... was at the War Office and Wilson was its salesman. His unabashed, incessant habit ...

    • ... to "disappear" (the actual word used by the War Office), and, when all was over, could reappear ...

    • ... the production of this magnificent moustache not sufficient to uphold the dignity of his office; so, though he ...

    • ... threw up on the top level of British politics and that reached the highest and most prized office ...

    • ... 476. Kitchener, who had lately taken over Asquith's second portfolio of the War Office, was shouting for thousands, for hundreds of thousands of men to fill the innumerable gaps in his continental armies at the time being pressed back, with their French allies, further and further into France ...

    • ... that Kitchener and the War Office were-deeply infected with the traditional official distrust ...

    • ... 494. Had the War Office taken Redmond's request "on the hop" and absorbed the 180,000 Redmondite Volunteers into such a corps, given it a distinctive uniform, its own Irish colours and its own Irish officers, there is no question that the response in Ireland would have been overwhelming ...

    • ... conference broke up, and we left O'Connor's office. ...

    • ... there in their official capacity as delegates from clubs or office-holders in the organisation. True, also, there were ...

    • ... remodelled Sinn Féin organisation. In his speech, on accepting that office de Valera referred ...

    • ... 800. quickly appreciated it and betook himself off to read his office. The young men and myself went out into the square and mounted some vehicle or other, I forget what, where we unfurled a tricolour arid proceeded to address then. One of the young men presided; I regret that his name ...

    • ... 818. further notice. Opposite me, sitting at the table, were the chief rulers and local dignatories o the Order, resplendent, or comparatively resplendent in heir trappings of office - collarettes, aprons, sashes like their Orange rivals, but, unlike the brilliant colours of those rivals, confined ...

    • ... , was there express and specific provision made in the Constitution for the office of "President of the Irish ...

    • ... . Otherwise he was being elected to an office that was not to be found in the Constitution. Whatever ...

    • ... Valera, in the U.S.A. I went at once to his office. He told me, more or less, what I have recorded ...

    • ... his office at Bachelor's Malk He saw me at once: a quiet, steely-eyed little man, with a rigid ...

    • ... that the Dáil had passed an ordinance directing all citizens who were "J.P." to resign that office ...

    • ... 1,006. threatening-looking creature with its high, piping little voice. Late that evening we reassembled in a modest but suitably obscure house in one of the back streets of the town, and completed our list without interruption from any quarter. I am not so sure that it wasn't a solicitor's office ...

    • ... the cover of an engineer's and land valuer's office was eminently wise, for it would serve us ...

    • ... 1,040. of the claimants to economic holdings would be filed in the office of Agriculture and would be dealt with, under the new land scheme, which the Dáil was devising. I dismissed the counter-claim for damages, but declared that, if there wasany further interference with the Morrins, my decision ...

    • ... 162. I should read for the Bar, the idea being that my younger brother would, in due course, become a solicitor and enter my father's office. Actually, when his time came to choose a profession, my brother opted for medicine. It so happened that, some time about the year 1903, I think, my father's ...

    • ... to fight shy of him and his ilk. I have told how I met him and others in the office of Frank O'Connor just ...

    • ... escaped me; was it Blake or Fitzgerald? I may get it from Mrs. O'Donerty. He had held high office ...

  • WS Ref #: 1773 , Witness: Patrick J Brennan, Officer IRA, Dublin, 1917 - 1924

    • ... and destruction of evenny Property eg, Post office Bicycles, Mail trucks, Telephone linesmen's equipment ...

    • ... of Post Office, Telephone and Telegraph Apparatus in Kilternan, Dalkey Dunlaughaire Blackrock ...

    • ... 8/8 Come out into the Open where they Could be Attacked at one of the Several ambush Positions Which Had been Prepared in Councetion With the Attack M only one Instance and the R.I.C. emerge from their Post When the Shooting had ceased and that was in Dundrum, and they were Promptly attacked ...

    • ... 18/18 1921 on Intelligence Wook. There Operations Were Continued Atviregular Intervals Until the Soldiers a there Girl Friends Ceased Visiting the area April Telephone & Telegraph Apparatus Seized in All Post Offices & Telephone Exchangls in South County Dublin April Attack on Patrol of Military ...

    • ... Uniforms Coots and Bicycles for Post Offices in Dundrum, Stillorgan, Farrock, Sandyford, Kilternan ...

    • ... and the Battalion Staff Acceded to the request. The Following Officers were then elected and they held Office ...

  • WS Ref #: 941 , Witness: Frank Donnelly, Commandant IRA, Armagh, 1921

    • ... 7. on mails in which I took part we raided the mails from a horse-drawn van on its way from the railway station to the Post Office. We took the mails outside the town to a hut where we censored all ... marked "Censored by the I.R.A." When we had the letters censored we took them to a Post Office box ...

  • WS Ref #: 6 , Witness: Liam O'Briain, Member IRB and IV, Dublin, 1912 - 1916

    • ... standing at bay before the toe of their race. The Post Office was shelled from at least two points ... for service in the Post Office. In reply they repeated McDermott's wish, expressed to him a fortnight before ...

    • ... , Pearse, McDermott, Plunkett and Connolly (who was in active command of Dublin) - seized the General. Post Office in O'Connell Street. The main body of the Citizen Army, under Michael Mallin ... to enter. The rest seized the Evening Mail office opposite, and tile City Hall overlooking tile Castle ...

    • ... or perhaps three) the O'Rahuilly resigned the post of quartermaster general and Staines was appointed ...