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WS Ref #: 877 , Witness: Patrick J Paul, OC East Waterford Brigade IRA, 1921
... 30. The train from Tramore was held up and the mails taken off it. Post offices and mail vans all around were also held up from time to time by our men and we raided the Waterford General Post Office, attacking and overpowering the military escort on this occasion. Sometime in March I had a message ...
... , was in the Post Office in Waterford and he brought out bundles of messages and. such like information every day ...
... reasoned, would have a better chance of success than any smaller action, because one post would be unable to reinforce another. The idea was to attack every military post in the area at once. Some ... others could go ahead with the object of capturing the post attacked. It was also intended, in case any ...
... somewhere about where the "Independent office is now. There was a Miss K. Boland (now Mrs. K ...
... was to have met George Plunkett, G.H.Q. organiser, and myself in his office. When George and I arrived ...
WS Ref #: 883 , Witness: John M McCarthy, Commandant IRA, Limerick, 1921
... office as Column Adjutant and either at the same time, or, at the most, a few weeks later, I was also ... a post on the western slope and was not, as far as I can remember, concerned with the details of how ... of the various posts other than my own. This post, nearly a hundred yards up the slope from the ...
... in Volunteer activities. In contrast, O'Hannigan, similarly out of office, carried on as an ordinary Volunteer and by sheer force of leadership after initiating the Column idea, filled the post of Column Commander, later attaining office as Brigade Commander and finished with a record of active service ...
... by a revolver held by Lieutenant Rolfe, of the local British military post, as I looked up from a desk in the office where I was writing. He confronted me at the other side of a glass partition beside the door ... an examination of the, office in course of which he emptied a waste paper basket on the floor ...
... . Two man Who raidid the Post Office at Ballinspittle recently, Wont Balmoral caps and enterad ... 4. I.R.A. Heve Methode comtd. Every kind of communication is now used for notifying the rebllo approach of the Crown Foroey Post Offies and Railway telephones or made freemes of The column of smoke ...
... -14- native of Ballylanders, then residing at Ardpatrick, where he was a Manager of a Creamery) was the first real holder of such a post from about the summer of l9l. Whether he was formally elected, appointed "from above", or just assumed the office, I do not now remember. In any case, he ...
... of 'senior rank - filling any post as an officer in the attack. Even Malone (Forde) was not, strictly ... of office since the elections which followed the enquiry into ...
... to hold any office in the organisation. For a time it was a question of formally subjecting him ... - merely of the wanton burning of the former R.I.C Barracks in Kilfinane after that post had been ...
... haversack and was a copy of an R.I.C. coded telegram passed to me from the Kilfinane Post Office where ...
... decoded version of any message likely to be of any local value. In any event the volume of these messages secured by us was not large and I am almost certain that the Kilfinane Post Office was the only source of them in the Brigade area. Much more valuable to us was intelligence secured by less ...
... at the windows through whichtheVolunteers fired. Of thetwoupper storey windows in theVolunteer post, onewasmanned by D. O'Hannigan andthe other by the officerin charge of the post,with Sean Meade of the local ... of fire fromthebarrack against this post hadbeen intense andwell-directed. It was afterwards ...
... . Kilworth. Cork. Bere Island. Cork. Queenstown. Bantry. Bere Island. Cork. Cork. Kinsale. Ballincollig ...
... in other rooms. The search of the office was now drawing to an end and I was confident that my discarded ... without remark and left the office to search other rooms, leaving me where I was but obviously in charge of a police constable who had entered the office just before Rolfe made his discovery ...
... -44- the Manahan-Hannigan dispute. Malone must be credited with being in command of the operation as a whole, though he was not formally assigned to that post. Here again, it was a tacit arrangement ... , where there was no exchange of fire and which could be termed a mere observation post, he ...
... and the occupants of the leading one were, I believe, called on to surrender. From my post, I could ... was sufficient intimation that the action had begun and my post at once opened fire on the second lorry ...
... and leaders designated for each section, and its combat post. Carroll's house. the post givingaccess ... the lower portions ofthe large windows as firing points thedark, rather squat enemy post looked grim ... of theR.I.C. in the post had varied almost daily overa long period. Thefinal and probably accurate estimate ...
... and on the 11th four camp fires and a look-out post, recently vacated, were found 1/2 mile s. of Geeragh Bridge ...
... . barrack, marked the opening of the I.R.A. attackon that post on April 27th, 1920.It was probably ... Ballylanders. The post to be assaulted wasa strong stone structure, steel-shuttered, dominating ...
... enough, no post-Rising arrests had been ...
... in the Volunteers. However, we were convinced that he was not quite the man to fill the post of military ...
... have brought the local R.I.C. to the scene post-haste as they had been very much on the alert ...
... of the attack on the post at Ballylanders ere being planned. Even so, it was quite a feat to bring off ...
... through the long engagement at the post to which I assigned him. This was at a window next to the one ...
... appointed at the same time, but much later in 1921 Liam Hayes filled that post. On this reorganising ...
... mishap with petrol in an attack on a police post in Co.. Tipperary a short time previously. I conveyed ...
... , it would have been considered unusual, if not impossible, to continue in the post while necessarily being ...
... not location as they made deliveries to a hidden roadside "post-box" we maintained at a point half-a-mile ...
... was defensively a very strong post a solid masonry structure steel-shuttered. loopholed and thickly surrounded ... fortified position wasto be anticipated indeed, subsequent to the destruction of the Ballylanders post ...
... -top post. Quantities of empty bottles hadalso beenprovided, and these-an earlyform of themissile ... thesmall outoffices in the rear. Thisretreat hadbeen effected outof viewof theattackers post ...
... office as a Battalion Commander. Around this period also we had decided that the battalion and. its ...
... , Co. Cork. He held office there as Battalion Commandant and had just been selected to command ...
... -59- getting out of the house and through the cordon. Accordingly, I began a discussion with the manager of our business, Mr. Leahy, who had come into the office while the search there had been in progress. My discussion, in the hearing of the policemen, related to the difficulties Bolfe would have ...
... -61- way to the nearby Presbytery where my good friend, Fr. (later Canon) John Lee, P.P., accommodated me until the following day. Rolfe on his return downstairs was, of course, astounded not to find me waiting him in the office. To have his enquiry for me answered. blandly and in all innocence ...
... bunks, sufficient space for office work and cooking facilities. Two or three members of the O'Donnell ...
... . Office No Signature Copy No Unit or Formation. ...
... a public Office and advise the Chief Liaison Officer of their telegraphic and postal address and Telephone ...
... any different to rebel plans for attacks on Barracks, and caused them to be post ponad. During ...
... garrison, all eyeswereturned expectantly on the dispensary post,the house adjoining the barrack.Fromthat ...
... of his administrative office; his deeppatriotism prompted him to turn ade’from a lucrative ... and confirmed ‘himin high office and reponsibilities.But his allotted span was short. Ii drew to a closein ...
WS Ref #: 981 , Witness: Patrick Riordan, Member IV and IRA, Kerry, 1916 - 1921
... , dismount from their bicycles and post a proclamation on the post office window. Some remark ...
... and organising work as before. In April 1918, an attack was made on the R.I.C. post at Gortatlea by some ... . On the following day Thomas NcEllistnim and Jack Cronin attacked two R.I.C. men from the Gortatlea post ...
WS Ref #: 1113 , Witness: James Brennock, Member IRA, Cork, 1921
... by the company officers they were usually returt-ed to the back door of the Post Office in Rathcorruac ... returned to Araglin where I took part in the destruction of the evacuated R.I.C. post at Easter ...
WS Ref #: 1155 , Witness: Michael O'Kelly, Organiser IV; President Sinn Fein, Kildare, 1921
... retired to the sidewalk in front of the Post Office. Here a "Union Jack" flag was hoisted to the top of a lamp post, ...
... the lamp post. Then the Irish Republican tricolour appeared where the Union Jack had flown and a soldier endeavoured to clamber up the lamp post to tear it from its place but he was seized by some civilians ...
... Inspector's Office. Sergeant Maher was also in close association with Sergeant Casey, clerk in the District Inspector's Office. Sean Kavanagh was then acting under the direction of Michael Collins ...
... by the owners as a justification for my dismissal from the post I occupied as editor on account of my anti ...
... -48- health allowed him to accept the post. Seamus was then living with me in Naas. On the morning that the newspapers announced the "Discovery" of the alleged German Plot and the arrest of Griffith and others on the charge of being implicated in it, Seamus quietly announced that he was going ...
... the "Dublin Saturday Post", he found it possible to be in closer touch with the ...
... to be steadfast and loyal at all costs to his friends and their ideals. His death at his post, the public ...
... as the Post Offices. The house occupied as an R.I.C. Barracks in Sallins and which was one of those abandoned ...
... " office where I occupied the position of editor. Following a private conference circulars were ...
... and T.J. Williams, reporter in "Leinster Leader" office. The latter was released the following day ...
... used as an office by the Town Surveyor. Our application was acceded to by the Urban Council ...
... Eamon Moran, Ballysax, called on me in the "Leinster Leader" office when we discussed the question ...
... -69- Leader" Office and intimated that he was about to engage in an inspection of local unite of the I.R.A. and the organisation of new companies. He remained for some time and his work was attended with satisfactory results. About the month of May, 1920, plans for some operations were under ...
WS Ref #: 1181 , Witness: John O'Connor, Officer IRA, Kerry, 1921
... to close Knock Post Office, which was situated on a by-road off the main Castle-island-Abbeyfeale road. We ... of Kilgarvan. In the meantime, Kenmare military post was reinforced by a body of Auxiliaries, Kenmare being ...
... at BAllyseedy Cross wher they were subsequently collected by Post Office officials. A short time ...
... Tans and military; they assembled as a rule in the village and proceeded to the Post Office where ...
... side of the street between the R.I.C. barracks and the post office that night. Early next morning ...
... , travelled by train from their barracks in Killarney to a military post in Kenmare and returned a few ...
... and McEllistrim planned to post the column on the embankment on either side of the station and, when ...
... 18. to fall out. We reckoned we had at least 20 minutes in which to carry out reconnaissance of the position and to post the column. Aliman, McEllistrim, Dan Healy, Jack Cronin and Noss Carmody handed me their rifles while they entered the station to make arrangements for the posting of the column ...
WS Ref #: 1198 , Witness: Thomas Dwyer, Member Fianna Eireann, Enniscorthy and IV, 1915 - 1919; Officer IRA and Flying Column, Wexford, 1919 - 1921
... policemen, went from the post office to the railway station every night at about 11 p.m., and returned ... . For that reason, it was necessary to let two of the patrol nearest the post car go by, before we ...
WS Ref #: 1279 , Witness: Sean Clifford, Commandant IRA, Limerick, 1921
... by sorters in Limerick Post Office and passed on to us. One of these gave the names of five members ... it through the post from the Black and Tans. The letter was something similar to one received ...
... -5- 0/C, Dick O’Connell, took up ambush positions on each side of the road in the village of Grange. to ambush a convoy of lorries carrying military, R.I.C. and Black and Tans. A fen of our men ware placed in the Post Office. The attaching party numbered about thirty men. Five or six of these had ...
... be the reasons given on the under Section 8(4).) Name: (J. Moloney.) Grade: Col. Department/Office ...
WS Ref #: 1306 , Witness: Denis O'Brien, Lieutenant IRA, Timoleague, Cork, 1921
... we could cover the square. beside the post office. We remained in position until the signal to withdraw was given after the sections at the military barracks and Black and Tan post in South Main St ...
WS Ref #: 1332 , Witness: John O'Gorman, Officer IRA, Donegal, 1921
... , Sheskinarone. Sergeant Mooney, R.I.C., accompanied by a Tan, left the barracks to collect post from the post office. Cole and Walsh opened fire on them, wounding the Sergeant. The Tan ran for the barracks and ...
... to the drapery. They then saw the man pass up the street to the post office without his coat ...