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WS Ref #: 340 , Witness: Oscar Traynor, Captain IV Dublin, 1913-16; Officer Commanding, Dublin Brigade, IRA, 1920-21
... at the post office, Pearse sent for rue an asked me why did we evacuate our post. I informed him that my ... he held, in order to give protection to the post 'office". We returned immediately and re-occupied ... of the post office in Prince's St. to assure myself that there was no mistake this time. I met Frank ...
... , many of them being telegraphists in the Post Office service. Their presence in this Signalling Service ... to a First-Aid post, preparatory to being brought to a ...
... to the post office they were being fired on. from Trinity College. On a number of occasions men were seen ...
... -shock or something like that. We were almost the last party to leave the post office. We crossed Henry ...
... as the Gene Post Office, and it was there that ail mails, incoming and outgoing, arrived. My task ...
... . I assumed office immediately' on the notification of his death, arid attended my first Army Council ... that while I was taking over that post following his death I would much prefer that my appointment ...
... to a secret cavity in the wall the office would assume the appearance of an office of the Irish ...
... First-aid post in Row, where we collected some first-aid equipment, and cycled to Tom's house. His ...
... out into the street and lined up in front of the poet office. James Connolly, who was standing ...
... . I at once made my way to the office in which I had been informed the emergency telephone ...
... lack of structural material which would burn. However. each office into which 1 penetrated ...
... 73. down to the main hail where they were kept under the vigilant eyes of the men of the squad and the A.S.U. With this part of his task completed he was then to see that every office on his landing was thoroughly saturated with paraffin oil. This could not have been done if petrol was used ...
WS Ref #: 983 , Witness: Thomas ("Tomo") Tuohy, Captain, IRA Clare, 1921
... automatic (short "Peter the Painter). The distance from the. R.I.C. barracks to the Post Office was about three quarters of a mile, the Post Office being situated outside the village almost opposite the graveyard on the road to Gort. On the village side of the Post Office and thirty yards or so away ...
... , Hehir and myself, about 25 men. On one of these days the postman taking mails from Feakle Post Office ... from the barracks to the Post Office for the mails round 10 o'clock in the morning ...
... Houlihan & Joe Tuohy in the Post Office and Nugent's respectively. I had anticipated that the first two policemen would be approaching the Post Office door when the next two would be passing Nugent's ...
... . A coded message which was intended to be sent from the Post Office to R.I.C. Headquarters in Tulla ...
... that they were G.H.Q.'s orders. He proposed Laurence Madden for the post of Company Captain and this was seconded by Pat Canny, Garrane, Feakle. I was also proposed and seconded for that post ...
... 4th (Scariff) Battalion, was in charge of our post and each man had a rifle. All the sections got ...
WS Ref #: 1132 , Witness: Daniel Ennis, Captain IRA, Waterford, 1921
... of the G.P.O. The military used to call in a lorry each morning at 8.30 a.m. to the Post Office for the mails. Two soldiers used to go into the Post Office and carry out the mail bags whilst the others ... outside, while we were holding up the two soldiers inside the Post Office, I arranged to have two drays ...
... , noon, on the General Post Office, The Quay, Waterford. This raid was f or the purpose of obtaining ... Hayes and myself raided the Poet Office at Ferrybank, Waterford, as part of general raids on Post ... shillings in the Post Office. It transpired that a postman had ...
... post. I then went back to my own party which was engaged in demolishing a bridge. The work ... British officers in mufti who surprised O'Rourke at his post. The wounded man received medical ...
... 13. left the office shortly before our arrival at 6 p.m. with the major portion of the day's takings. We handed over the money to Tom Brennan of "D" Company in the Sinn Féin Hall in Colbeck Street, Waterford, that same night. Early in the month of May, 1921, a party of about twelve men of my ...
WS Ref #: 1232 , Witness: James Fraher, Commandant IRA, Waterford, 1921
... with revolvers. We remained in a garage near the Post Office from 4 a.m. until 8.30 a.m., at which time ... whose name I have forgotten and I (all wearing masks) entered the Post Office, held up the staff ... as raiding Dungarvan Post Office, I also carried out raids on the mails being conveyed from ...
... post office and dismantle the telephone exchange there. I went to the post office, cut the wires ... the post office and was returning to my ...
... was through news bulletins posted up in the windows of Dungarvan Post Office. During Easter Week ... . O'Mahony, a Kerryman, who was then employed in Dungarvan Post Office. This man, though not openly ...
... alive, into a cell. After some hours, I was taken out of the cell and up to the office ...
WS Ref #: 370 , Witness: Fintan Murphy, Officer IV, Dublin, 1914 - 1916; Quartermaster General, 1917 - 1918
... to bore walls through. Instructions from the Post Office were received immediately there, and we marched via Abbey Street, O’Connell Street, to Prince’s Street, where we entered the Post Office. We stood to for a bayonet charge from the Lancers before we got in to the Post Office. When we entered ...
... become untenable, owing to the fires, and it was proposed that we should evacuate in good order, and make our way to Henry Street. We evacuated in small groups, and dashed across Henry Street into Henry Place, which was right across from the Henry Street exit gate of the Post Office. At Henry Place ...
... G fanny glib about Fr. O'Flanagan in the press accounts! Pidut see year convection as I gather from BOH's letter on closed you made one General post office. I This is quite accurate in its general outline and also in the details and in the times. How you, managed to get in so much in the twenty ...
... to the Post Office until after one o'clock. We were led by Eamonn Bulfin, a staff lieutenant on Pearse's ...
... in Princes Street. After all our trouble in forcing our way in to the Post Office some of us had now ...
... and Willie Pearse together at the flag—post in Prince’s Street. It was from the roof I was sent to do duty as sentry on Prince’s Street gate, and when I was relieved, I returned to my post ... on Tuesday night. There was alleged to be a British post down at Amiens Street Station; and I think I recall ...
... , which we filled with coal. We then barricaded the main office windows. After that, I was on duty ... in the yard. It was a big space. It may have been the main sorting office. I was not up on the building ...
... across the narrow width of Princes Street, as well as the Freemans Journal office and that whole ... . Some of our men went out across to the stables at the back of the Freemans Journal office and released ...
... where the enemy post was located, but presently we realised that it was mounted on a building ...
WS Ref #: 423 , Witness: Vincent Byrne, Officer IRA, Dublin; Member 'The Squad' and ASU, 1919 - 1921
... and that there was to be no flanking. So I started on my first call. I went into Parnell St. Post Office and changed two orders there. That was the first 15/- . I next called into the Post Office in Westmoreland St and changed another order there; then I went to Duke St. Post Office, changed one there, went home, had my ...
... 30. to myself: "You are doing well".' I then went on to Merrion Row and cashed two more. I think, as far as I can recall, that was the last postal order and the last post office. all, the cash was in half-crowns. That evening I went over to Richmond Crescent and met Jim and Tom. They both said ...
... : "Right, Torn". I got a tin of petrol end proceeded to the second floor. I opened the office door ... , stating that I was going to sot fire to the office. The gentleman stood up and said: "Oh, you can't ... was in the centre of the office. I collected ail other papers and files I could find and placed them ...
... a railway porter where the foreman WSB, He pointed towards a little office on the platform, saying: "He has just gone into it". I approached the office, with my right hand in my pocket, giving ... . The foreman was standing at a desk in the office. I told him we were going to burn two wagons ...
... for a day or so. Then I returned to my post at the window. On Wednesday, Commandant Thomas McDonagh, who ... that they thought I was too3 young, so I was sent back to my post. A party did leave Jacob's ...
... office in Westland Row, belonging to the railway. So over we went to Westland Row, the four of us ... of the train, except those in the office; so ended another enemy of Ireland. Newspaperman Hardy ...
... 53. as good as mine. The lateness of the calling off of the operation can be gauged from the fact that each group was waiting outside its allotted post, ready for the zero hour. In fact, one operation was put into practice in Grafton St. by the A.S.U. under Paddy Rigney. One Auxiliary was shot dead ...
... to Smithfield. Everything wash set, and every man at his post. Charlie Byrne was standing somewhere ...
... St. and Portland Row, facing Seville Place. The men in this post wore armed with Lee Enfield rifles ...
... their post into Seville Place. Attempted rescue of So MacEoin at Lucan. Sean, who had been wounded ...
... 63. Pedestrians, we decided. it was time to call off the operation. When we vacated our post, we observed a small car coming along the road, going towards the city, and we held it up. We ordered the driver to take us to town. He refused point-blank, stating he was an ex-British army officer. I must ...
... Saturday morning, when I was called into the office to be paid. Mr. and Mrs. Mackey were there. The boat ...
... , was present. As I entered the office he said to me: "Why the hell didn't you open the gate when you went ...
WS Ref #: 1719 , Witness: Dan Corkery, Member IRB Cork, 1913 - 1916
... 11. to the post office, which adjoined the R.I.C. barrack. We entered through a window in the gable ... in the roof of the barrack, and tools to smash through the roof. Having taken over the post office ... the roof of the post office, we smashed a hole in the roof of the barrack and immediately began pumping ...
... the brigade were planned. Blarney R.I.C. post was attacked on June 1st 1920, and on June 9th we ...
WS Ref #: 369 , Witness: William Whelan, Member, IV Dublin, 1916; IRA activities England, 1921
... and it was decided that we retire to the Post Office, so we marched in on the Wednesday to the Post Office. ... whether Harry Boland or Vincent Poole was in command on that day. All through Monday we held a post ... a post down at Ballybough and we left Vincent Poole and attached ourselves to Frank Henderson's ...
... of this event is, when I got back off the reconnaissance I reported to the Post Office. I did not report back to the Imperial for the moment, and in the Post Office I saw James Connolly lying wounded ... to the Post Office and then I went down Prince's Lane and got out in Abbey Street, got on to the Quays ...
... 4. into the Post Office. I returned to the Imperial and told Boland about Joe Plunkett's remark ... at the Post Office from Fairview. Crowds of people were looting the shops and I can't say what caused ... , I do not know. The panic was spreading and Connolly came out of the Post Office and marched up ...
... 2. From the Post Office, Ned Boland and I were sent across to the Imperiál Hotel where Frank Thrnton was in charge (he was called 'Drennan'), and we remained there until the order camè through for the evacuation. We received an order to escape to the country. We worked our way into Marlboro' Street ...
... on the following day down to the Insurance Office at O'Connell Bridge. We did so and sáw Mick Stáines ...
WS Ref #: 954 , Witness: Sean Leavy, Commandant IRA, Roscommon, 1921
... of the Post 0ffce at Scramogue and put a man at the Post Office to give a warning if there was any ... the Post Office while the local mail was being dealt with there. The escort delayed at the Post ... . I had a man in the Post Office the following evening when this man arrived to hear what would ...
... and, after searching around, publicly announced at the Post Office there that, if any of his men were shot ... that the only ambush position on the road was at the Post Office in Scramogue. He stated that they had no knowledge of any ambushes being planned and did not anticipate any. The Post Office mentioned ...
... . We had the Post Office in Rooskey tapped, and Mrs. Cullen there supplied us with copies of all ... Collins in Dublin. We tried to get the same done in the Post Office in Strokestown but could not get ...
... - 11 - Leavy off it and brought him up a narrow lane. We searched him but found nothing, and we then gave him a good hiding for what he had said in the Post Office in Scramogue. We had taken the mails off the van and now got away across country. The tender or lorry escort had now come up to join ...
... - 15 - of Slieve Bawn in a double bend. The place was a known danger point, but captured documents revealed that the enemy considered the most likely ambush position to be the wooded area at Scramogue Post Office, some five hundred yards or so on the Longford side. The ambush position chosen ...
... (separation women they were known as, on account of receiving separation money from the British War Office ...
WS Ref #: 1326 , Witness: Andrew O'Donohue, Commandant IRA, Clare, 1921
... in the Ballyvaughan post office, by which this lady would send word to him when the marines would be coming from their post, the coastguard station, nearly a mile from the post office, to collect the mail. It was the practice of the marines to ring the post office, enquiring if there was any official mail ...
... . Flying shrapnel and splinters from the stones compelled our men to vacate that post. O'Neill and myself ...
... of the field. I had goad enough cover here, but the enemy had come closer. His machine gun post had now ...
... stationed - at that time there was no enemy post in my battalion - I was given the town of Ennistymon ...