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WS Ref #: 1340 , Witness: J.R.W. Goulden, Son of RIC man who was engaged in Tourmakeady Ambush, Mayo, 1921
... Willie Billington (the postmaster) were brought to Robinson's. He was kept under guard at the Post office to answer the 'phone and preserve a show of mornality if messages had to be received from ... ever went by road by convoy rather than by post. However, it may have been sent in this way ...
... STATEMENT BY MR. J.R.W. GOULDEN 48 Dean Swift Road, Glasnevin, Dublin. Tourmakeady R.I.C. Barracks as situated on the east side of the road a little south of the bridge which crossed the Tourmakeady river. The post office was almost directly opposite on the west side of the road. I was born ...
... was Moloney's shop (Catholic) and the post office run by Willie Billington and his recently-widowed ...
... Statement by mr J.R.W. goulden 48 Deanswift Road glasnerm, Dublin Tourmakeady R.I.C. Barracks was situated on the east sin of the road a little south of the bridge which crossed the Tourmakeady rivers The post office was almost divesthy offosite on the west side of the road. I was born ...
... (the Portmaster) were brought to Robin sons He was beft under guard at the post officer to answer ... was in change of the office made out the duty list as follow Ford sergeant John Regan, Constable O'Regan ...
... , who was in charge of the office, made out the duty list as follows Ford - Sergeant John Regan ... Constable Frawley changed with my father. He knew my father was busy in the office and he looked ...
... wife, He lad been the post black - and - tan in the arch and come to Pantry elad in a Dlicemars cat ...
... office ram by willies Bellington and his reemthy widowed mother across the road was the shall ...
WS Ref #: 1351 , Witness: Humphrey O'Donoghue, Lieutenant IRA Cork, 1921; Member Brigade Column, 1921
... in a neighbouring post office. Some members of our company (Cullen) were mobilised when a British army aeroplane ... to the I.R.A. and Sinn Féin. He had been asked to relinquish his post as J.P. under the British ...
WS Ref #: 1454 , Witness: James Leahy, Commandant IRA, Tipperary, 1921
... the office of the Petty Sessions Clerk in Thurles for the purpose of destroying Dog Licences and other Court ... were destroyed by the local I.R.A. companies A new enemy post had been established at Castlefogarty ... the grounds, especially after dusk. It was, therefore, a post which was difficult to approach and too ...
... APPENDIX 3 (contd.) Battalion Officers No. 2 (Mid) Tipperary Brigade. No. 1 Battalion (Thurles): Commandant Jerry Ryan, who filled the post until January. 1921, when he was appointed organiser ... , followed by Phil Shanahan who held the post until the Truce. No. 2 Battalion (Templemore ...
... the end of 1920 when he was arrested. McGrath was succeeded by Jim Stapleton, who filled the post up ...
... numbered about 12 men; nor did the attacking party have any either. The attack on the police post ... trouble in connection with the Hanley Estate. The ground around the post had been cleared of walls ...
... /Office/Court: Date: 7 March 2003. ...
... Drumbane. The policemen went back and forward from their post in Drumbane to the farm and the Malones ...
... by a military garrison during the summer of 1918. This post was held until the Truce in July 1921. I ...
... at the post, which was in his area, there was a chance that reinforcements might be sent which we might ...
... 39. were standing about the village street in Drumbane when they saw a British military officer from Nenagh arrive on a motorbike outside the R.I.C. post. Coming to the conclusion that this man had brought a dispatch to the police and that he would be returning by the same route in a short while ...
... 65. About this time, Jerry Ryan had left the flying column to take over a new post organiser of Dáil Courts in the Mid-Tipperary Constituency. His place was taken by Mick Small Ryan was in Thurles attending to his new duties when he was arrested. Small continued to move the column through ...
WS Ref #: 1540 , Witness: T.S. McDonagh, Officer IRA, Clare, 1921
... 4. Vaughan's place in Lahinch. Vaughan was an ex-post office man and was then the battalion signals officer. It was then too late to go to Kilmaley as we learned from "Tosser" that the attack was over. From the point of view of capturing the post or of inflicting casualties on the R.I.C ...
... and bashes. We were then removed to the military post in Ennistymon where we were interrogated ...
WS Ref #: 328 , Witness: Garry Holohan, Senior Officer, Fianna Eireann, 1914 - 1921
... and myself used to go to 5 Findlater Place to the "Irish Freedom" office to told the papers and. stamp them for the post. We would then carry them to the G.P.O. and post them. I remember the first night I ...
... house in the Zoo. Eamon Martin vent to the post office to report what had taken place, and went to our ...
... ourselves and were under the charge of our own officers. We had our own post-office, and we ate ...
... of men. I think Paddy Daly, Pat Holohan, Eamon Martin and I went down to James Connolly's office ... up to my house at 8 Rutland Cottages. I forgot to state that as I entered James Connolly's office ...
... suspicion. As a netter of fact, a sentry left his gun at his post on the extension gates. and went ...
... -11- approached me about joining the Fenian movement and I expressed my willingness. He then told me that they were going to a meeting and invited me to go with them. I agreed, I was brought to the Fianna office at 12 D'Olier Street. Before I entered the room Con Colbert came out and brought me ...
... for a friend of the foreman's. This fellow carried stories about him to the office and he was not re ...
... I.R.B. members, Peadar McNally, who worked with Sean McDermott in the "Irish Freedom" office ...
... to his office. He always dressed smartly, and carried his umbrella under his arm like a walking stick ...
... McDermott in the "Irish Freedom" Office. I ...
... -51- The following clay, Good Friday, I called at No, 2 Dawson Street at three o'clock. I met Seán McDermott and Seán MeGarry coming out or the office on the first floor. Seán McDermott gave me a letter to deliver to Eoin MacNei1l's shome at Woodtown Park in the mountains above Rathfarnham. I ...
... , was in the censor's office and acted as postman. Hugh Holohan, my first cousin, who was out in the O'connell Street ...
WS Ref #: 384 , Witness: J.J. (Sceilg) O'Kelly, Editor 'Catholic Bulletin', 1916; Speaker of Dail Eireann, 1919
... , entitled to as Minister for Defence. Mulcahy had lost his appointment in the Post Office, and had got ... time, it was felt that he was the man for the other post - of President - after the general election ...
... -30- himself with Judge Cohalan. I used to get American papers containing speeches by important men all over the United States. A friend in the Post Office passed me in the Gaelic-American every week ... , and I came to the office on Good Friday too. The shop portion of Gills' was closed on Good Friday ...
... , who were, I think, carriers for the Post Office. He had a wonderful aptitude for poetry ...
... . There we. were not allowed to go more than three miles beyond the post office Anyway, I was not able ...
... -67- Post Office, I think, used to come over to see her in the beginning. In time, she had rooms in the Gresham. The whole story is something one would rather forget. She had a house in Raheny too, and it was there that Muiris Ó Súileabháin, who wrote "Fiche Bliadhan ag Fás", stayed the first night ...
... . The Republic had been proclaimed from the General Post Office in 1916, and constitutionally ratified ...
... September, 1917, that I began that work. I used not go back to my office at Gills' after lunch hour. Instead I went over to Donal O'Connor's office in Westmoreland-street. It was there I prepared ... they found me at O'Connor's office. I told them definitely I could not go forward, as I had ...
... was Curator of the National Museum, and that was not a very onerous post for a man of his ... and experience. He then returned to his post in the National Museum. I became intimate with him because he ...
... -13- representative all over "the three Kingdoms", a post I found most interesting, until recalled to edit the Catholic Bulletin, founded January, 1911. I was, however, glad to be back again ... off without the Gaelic League. John MacNeill would never have been chosen for the post he filled only ...
... . I came back too soon, and carried on the rehearsals with the others. One day in the office, as I ... - I am inclined to think it was Tuesday or Wednesday of Holy Week - I had a visit in the office from ...
... -55- That was another appointment about which much could be said; for at no time was Dublin second to Cork in the quest for office. The Countess had her office not far from Findlater's church, North Frederick Street, which became known as "the Dardanelles". Her staff used to bomb every military ...
... was his Chief of Staff; and mine, I think, was given to Frank Fahy whom I nominated to a post in my own ...
... was not taking the post at all. I expected for a time that Seán. T. would be home. If he was formally ...
... , a post I had neither Bought nor desired. There was an I.R.B. group who wanted to get the appointment ...
... to that move mainly by a West-Cork group and a few others. Some kind of a post was made for Ginnell ...
... post in the National Aid Committee, and Joe MacGrath was put into it. MacGrath was afterwards taken ...
... . Thade O'Sullivan, was offered a similar office, but declined it. In that way, the ex- chaplain ...
... a promising appointment in Browne and Nolan's and enter the office of the Gaelic League, a step I later ...
... in the Gaelic League office, I began to think very seriously about the literary and other competitions ...
... -14- but praise for the consistent devotion of the Central Branch to the language. It was after I left the Gaelic league office that the Keating Branch was established - not with any high hope that it wou1dvelop as it did. We got some excellent members. from the very outset. Our first President ...
... ; but he undertook too much outside his office work. Becoming deeply interested in Irish, he made a great ...
... passed hurriedly through my office in Gills', without noticing or speaking to anybody, beyond a nod ...
... -29- as will be understood, but did not want to let anybody see it. MacNeill came into my office, and told me confidentially that Archbishop O'Connell of Boston had. sent a substantial sum of money to the Archbishop of Dublin for the Volunteer cause. Archbishop Walsh asked John MacNeill, who ...
... was not long back at my office when John Archdeacon Murphy came from America. He busied himself ...
... -46- intimated, at least it was conveyed, that he would be absent for some time. So it was decided to appoint a Chairman. I was in my office in Gills' when Gavan Duffy rang me up, and said: "Come over, Sceilg, you are wanted here". I did not then know that Sean T. was still in Paris. I knew be went ...
... -50- Conference. As I have already said, the Roscommon election was fought on the basis that the Count was "the man for the Peace Conference", and it was on that issue he was elected. It was I wrote to ask him to become a candidate, because it was in my office he was chosen as candidate by Fr ...
... as I can recollect. She went over to London, and became a clerk in Lloyd George's office. In time, she ...
... in his office every evening. Mrs. O'Reilly went to the first meeting that Austin and myself ...
... to the dead I regard my unanimous election here as amonument tothe heroic dead, and this athe post facture ...
... MacPherson andthree Inspectors ofthe Royal Irish Constabulary forhisassassination. Hisdual office ...
WS Ref #: 391 , Witness: Helena Molony, Secretary Inghini na hEireann, 1907 - 1914; member Cumann na mBan, 1915 -1921
... Morrow (the artist) adapted her drawing to the smaller space. No one except the printer and the Post Office got any money out of our paper. Our contributors themselves would have thought it fantastic ... no experience and no desire for such a responsible post. However, I carried on and the foregoing list ...
... on, with workrooms upstairs. At the back of this shop there was a well equipped printing office ... into the public offices of the Hall. In a little office at the back of the shop, and leading ...
... -7- several other members of the National Players went to San Francisco with a party of entertainers, and, alas, did not return to Ireland again except as visitors. On Miss Quinn's departure I was elected Hon. Secretary of Inghíníndhe na hEireann, which post I held for upwards of seven years, when ...
... -44- of our sympathisers, but I forget her name now. We did not take the same precautions with that flag. If we succeeded in putting it out the window, and if it hung for an hour, we felt it would be all right. Having decided to post up the proclamation, we got facsimiles of it made. We got ...
... taught the Volunteers to shoot). onno1ly happened to be in the little office between the shop ...
... of the Castle. The orders were, I presume, to each Sergeant: "Take your men to the "Mail" office". "Take your ...
WS Ref #: 400 , Witness: Richard Walsh, Member, IRB, 1908-21; Representative on IV Executive, 1917-21; Senior Officer, IRA Mayo, 1919-21
... was, I understand,, a Post Office official. He was undoubtedly an I.R.A. man. These men evidently made a burst of fire from R.W. Some POST out SIDE of the station, but they were captured arid, along ...
... into the town of Birmingham. When he arrived at his office he gave me the names and addresses of a few ... to his office about 12.15 p.m. that day, which I did. Shortly after I returned, as advised, he took me into an inner office and there took up a cardboard box and opened it and showed me eight perfectly ...
... Office and sign a docket for the article before-he got the use of it. He used to return the article to the office and sign for its return and get a receipt for it. Those batteries were very portable ...
... Commission. The poet office, being useful even for I.R.A. purposes, was to be immune from attack except ...
... activities. I wee told at the time that Quinlisk called at seine office devoted to army work and got ...
... 143. a names of the principal merchants un Athlone, wholesale ant retail dealers as they were, and when the shopkeeper's own goods were being forwarded to them, the weight was obtained from the Transport Office and the cases were opened, and a certain amount of ammunition and weapons deposited ...
... an established government with all the safeguards that a peacetime government office should possess ...
... , with the result that the body running the paper raided Griffith's office with guns in their hands ...
WS Ref #: 499 , Witness: Patrick Kennedy, Member Irish Citizen Army, 1916; IRA, Dublin,1921
... the post from the British military headquarters in Parkgate Street, and that it was to be intercepted before it reached the Rink. I knew the number of the post office van goIng from Parkgate Street ...
... passed on to us. Two important agents we had in the post office in the Rink were Paddy Moynihan ...
WS Ref #: 585 , Witness: Frank Robbins, Member Irish Citizen Army, 1916; Secretary IT&GWU
... -107- gun broke. He got panicky, cleared away and reported back to the post office. Connolly then sent him to bring rifles to another post. Halpin was determined not to fail in this, but the incident which happened at Henry & James's seemed to obsess his mind. He went home again and he remained ...
... -78- With plenty of time on our hands during the day, we moved around the different posts inside the College in our own selected groups. While so occupied I noticed Chris. Caffrey come in. She had been sent by Commdt. Mallin with a despatch to the General Post Office a couple of hours previously ...
... of the appointment, and advised us to co and see his assistant, Mr. Roderick Kennedy, at his office ... were left to go to Judge Cohalan's office to talk the matter over with Mr. Kennedy. In the course ... Mellows and I left the Judge's office and discussed the matter fully before reaching any conclusion ...
... or so after this I was again on day shift and I • was passing the engineer's office when I heard him calling my name. He indicated that my presence was required in his office, and I felt ... office, but to my surprise he told me that he was promoting me to a higher job. Raving listened to him ...
... proceeded to Liberty Hall, and found many of the men whom I had mobilised already at their post. Every ... appearance of an active war post. So well did the members of the Citizen Army answer the call ...
... from America. 156 69. Citizen Army in post 1916 period. 157 APPENDICES. "Memories of Easter Week ...
... recognition. This was something I could not submit to and I went immediately to the office ... was the real culprit so far as the wage slashing was concerned, then came into the office but no appeal from ...
... my attention was drawn to the fact that a number of men inside the ticket office had locked the door ... of the office clerks were making their way through another door leading on to the street; this was stopped ...
... in the Gaelic-American office on the Monday, the day after his arrival. John Devoy, Dr. McCartan and Liam Mellows came in from lunch shortly after my arrival at tile Gaelic-American office and I ...
... ' arrest as I knew it. I left tneir flat in Brooklyn and again went to the Gaelic-American office. John ... and proceeded there from the Gaelic-American office. I was Mellows' first visitor and I had quite ...
... , was required to register on this day. The office where I was obliged to register was in Ocean Avenue, near Greenville, Jersey City. On arriving at the registration office I found queues of men waiting ...
... there. This was a very small office with only one clerk in it. We all signed the papers as citizens of the Irish Republic and were accepted as such by the clerk in cnarge of the office. In the course ...
... finished without a mock attack on a lonely post by supposed Red Indians with all the war-paint, feathers ...
... the grave and the last post was sounded by Bugler Oman of the Citizen Army. The reaction to all ...
... firing had no effect whatever; they were not to be frightened and undauntedly stuck to their post ...
... just finished a Courtmartial on the officer in charge of the Turkish Baths for leaving his post ...
... , to be neglected to aid the post that was in dire need of help. I have been asked to record any information ...
... a messenger appeared from the foreman's office and told Elmes he was wanted in a very great hurry. Elmes ...
... succeeded in doing so. When passing the Ballast Office, I noticed by the clock that it was then 1l.55 a.m ...
... Office of the I.T.G.W.U.) Before giving final instructions, Comdt. Mallin called on Countess de ...
... . Next day Thomas Skinnider took me down to the Gaelic-American office to introduce me to John Devoy ...
... first desire was to transmit it immediately to John Devoy. When I arrived at the Gaelic-American office ...
... -133- that name. Would you mind writing it yourself" said the clerk. All this was delightful enjoyment to Miss Ward and myself. Vie left the office with the very best thanks of the man in charge. My second registration was under a false name and I gave my home address as being Drogheda, County ...
... in the Gaelic-American office and he read me a letter which he had received from Larkin, giving ...
... . It turned out that Larkin went down to the Gaelic-American office and abused John Devoy for being ...