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WS Ref #: 617 , Witness: Bridget Malone, nee Walsh; Courier from Galway to Dublin, Easter 1916
... on after me by post. They came on Saturday to my hoe in Killeeneen, having been opened in the Post Office by the Postmaster who was a special constable for the British in Easter Week. That was Spy ...
... in the post-Treaty fight there. My brother, Paddy: (Padraig Breathnach). My brother, paddy ...
WS Ref #: 736 , Witness: Brian A Cusack, Member IV, Dublin, 1916
... 2. talking but very little action P.S. O'Hegarty who was in the Post Office in Cork was transferred to London. He obtained this post through a competitive examination gaining a very high place on the list. P.S. proved to be the proverbial "New Broom". He soon got control of the I.R.B. in London ...
... the I.R.B. the oath as sworn by that body was subscribed to by me. I was in the same office ...
... the vacancy to be advertised again. I applied again and on calling to the Office of the Council one day ...
WS Ref #: 748 , Witness: John J Doyle, Member IV, Dublin, 1914 - 1916; Medical Officer, Dublin Brigade, 1917 - 1922
... of the Bank outpost. He had come across to me in the Post Office to know if a certain house would be suitable for a Red Cross post. I went across. with him and selected the house next the. Bank and instructed ...
WS Ref #: 755 , Witness: Sean Prendergast, Member Fianna Eireann, 1911; Officer IV, Dublin, 1914 - 1916; Captain IRA, Dublin, 1921
BMH.WS0755 section 1.pdf, on page 135
... been set up - Ireland was declared a Republic. Poblacht Abú! The General Post Office in O'Connell St ... day, Tuesday, a man whom I took to be Mr. William 0'Brien, the Labour Leader, cycling past our post ...
BMH.WS0755 section 2.pdf, on page 120
... 332. Chapter 16. A new innovation in the domestic affairs of the I.R.A. and Sinn Féin was introduced about this time in the establishment of a secret post office service. Several shops in the Dublin ... to persons connected with the I.R.A. and movement were tampered with in the post. Things had ...
BMH.WS0755 section 1.pdf, on page 28
... the activities of "Irish Freedom"-by the medium of the Post Office the circulation was interfered with. Then again the office in 6 Findlater's Place, now Cathal Brugha St. was under surveillance ...
BMH.WS0755 section 2.pdf, on page 121
... military, while that of the Republican post were regarded as of a purely civilian and utilitarian nature ... , song sheets, patriotic post cards and other types of literature deemed to be "seditious" were ...
BMH.WS0755 section 1.pdf, on page 138
... that our post and other posts in the area were exposed to view. Besides, we saw that our humble, slender ... and become effective by the presence of Lieutenant McGuinness who came to our post and announced the decision that it should forthwith come under our control. He, accompanied by our post commander ...
BMH.WS0755 section 1.pdf, on page 129
... in the various buildings, cooking, feeding and commissariat, first aid post, quartermaster and armourers ... into operation. It devolved on the respective individual post commanders , who were mostly N.C.O.s ...
BMH.WS0755 section 1.pdf, on page 130
... of these, related to the wide awakedness or alertness of a couple of our sentries posted midway between our post ... to be there at the "bar" with no other "brief" than a message from my post commander on a matter saying ...
BMH.WS0755 section 1.pdf, on page 90
... 90. In this house was situated the office of "The Irish Review", a monthly literary and cultural magazine that had become famous by its publication of an extraordinary article entitled "Ireland ... was leaving his office, and we both proceeded to that place. He always had a spate of writing to do ...
BMH.WS0755 section 1.pdf, on page 175
... 175. We even had visitors from the War Office. These English never seemed to be able to pronounce their R. and S. What fun we made of this. Their failure to speak English the way the Irish speak ... and among ourselves it provided quite an amount of mirth and mimicking of the men from the War Office ...
BMH.WS0755 section 1.pdf, on page 206
... should be permitted to hold office on the Camp Council or in charge of the different service groups and that a man who failed to turn out in the Rising should not hold any office in the Camp. Signs ...
BMH.WS0755 section 3.pdf, on page 134
... 562. and because cumainn were precluded from taking decisions on the question of the Treaty. So utterly impossible had things become, however, that no great need existed for keeping in office ... the conditions of my office prescribed that I act with circumvention and restraint and required ...
BMH.WS0755 section 3.pdf, on page 33
... 31 462 In the onerous and ardous duties attaching to his office he showed many outstanding characteristics not least of which was a great aptitude for work and care and attention to every detail of duty. So ponderous and difficult was the work at times that not a few officers wondered how he could ...
BMH.WS0755 section 1.pdf, on page 29
... 29. of bundles of papers for country dispatch. A group of us were given a number of copies to post in various parts of the city. We were trusted and, apparently, trustworthy. Chapter 4. As already mentioned our route marches on the Sundays took us to various places, principally the Dublin Mountains ...
BMH.WS0755 section 1.pdf, on page 102
... and tradition". Even the echoes of the "Last Post" and the rifle volleys fired as a soldier's tribute over ...
BMH.WS0755 section 1.pdf, on page 122
... was our garrison post. As it was our position was precarious; situated as we were then we were merely ...
BMH.WS0755 section 1.pdf, on page 126
... not destined to be long in our new post. This time we were moved into the Four Courts to take up position ...
BMH.WS0755 section 1.pdf, on page 128
... not in the slightest degree detract from its importance as a military post that could be put to good use if and when ...
BMH.WS0755 section 1.pdf, on page 132
... 132. weren't of the down-hearted type - they were brave, humorous and chatty. Everything comes to an end, however, and so to my surprise, and partly to my regret, I had to leave good company and, as I thought, very doubtful bombs, and on the orders of Lt. McGuinness returned to my former post ...
BMH.WS0755 section 1.pdf, on page 133
... of "complimentary" fire between us and the Tommies while the Volunteers at our post supported us with covering ...
BMH.WS0755 section 1.pdf, on page 139
... importance as a defensive position or post, for most of it was low-sized, cramped and sheltered from ...
BMH.WS0755 section 1.pdf, on page 174
... to pay us many visits. If ever there was a human post man Larry was surely so. As a matter of fact he ...
BMH.WS0755 section 2.pdf, on page 11
... took up post of Captain to "G" Company, ist. Battalion. He was followed, later by Frank McNally who ...
BMH.WS0755 section 2.pdf, on page 24
... were fired over the grave and the "last post" sounded. The cyclists numbering a thousand, caused ...
BMH.WS0755 section 2.pdf, on page 46
... 258. One such example of that was afforded by an interview given by Sir F.E. Smith to the "Boston Post", January 14th: "The Sinn Féin (said he) is distinctively pro-German and part of the pro-German propaganda." Was it not very significant that this move should be made at a time when the anti ...
BMH.WS0755 section 2.pdf, on page 140
... , were in circulation and sent through the post to reputed men of the I.R.A. and Republican ...
BMH.WS0755 section 2.pdf, on page 142
... a strong British garrison post at the Nth. Dublin Union. That military party, armed and in a motor ...
BMH.WS0755 section 2.pdf, on page 152
... , would have to be in the streets, but plans had been prepared to post some at unconspicuous places inside ...
BMH.WS0755 section 3.pdf, on page 28
... former Commandant Tom Byrne. Prior to his elevation to that post he had served in 'F' Company ...
BMH.WS0755 section 3.pdf, on page 31
... that fitted well into his post was George Irvine the Battalion Vice-Commandant. He was an intellectual ...
BMH.WS0755 section 3.pdf, on page 162
... 590. an Orange 0der was puzzling in the extreme. Small wonder that some of our men said "we are learning things!" Was it not an extraordinary phenomenon to behold: one of the outposts of the Orange Lodges being used as an armoury and garrison post of the I.R.A. and for activities repugnant ...
BMH.WS0755 section 3.pdf, on page 191
... the military post, or, as in some of our cases, to watch and ward over our Companies. Indeed ...
BMH.WS0755 section 3.pdf, on page 192
... on the question who should fill the post of Minister of Defence, or the other crux in regard ...
BMH.WS0755 section 3.pdf, on page 200
... military; nothing was left to chance, as. a military post and. general Headquarters. It also housed ...
BMH.WS0755 section 1.pdf, on page 12
... in factory, workshop and office within and without Dublin city. How often had I witnessed the huge ...
BMH.WS0755 section 1.pdf, on page 26
... . The distribution office was at No. 6 Findlater Place. "Irish Freedom" was published monthly. It gave ...
BMH.WS0755 section 1.pdf, on page 63
... 63. almost golden sheaf of hair. By occupation a clerk in a commercial office, he would at once strike one as being fitted more for Holy Orders. One of the most notable features of Liam was that he took Fianna work very seriously, so seriously, indeed, that he undertook about this time, 1913 ...
BMH.WS0755 section 1.pdf, on page 123
... - the Records Office side. Sergeant Tommy Allen was in charge. Seán Kennedy, too, was there. Later ...
BMH.WS0755 section 1.pdf, on page 125
... erected and manned sometime previously. Further, it was situated almost opposite the Records Office ...
BMH.WS0755 section 1.pdf, on page 137
... to the British Army. a military pay-office, and years previously as a centre for an Exhibition under ...
BMH.WS0755 section 1.pdf, on page 176
... authorities under orders of the War Office? If we were not prisoners of war then we were not civilian ...
BMH.WS0755 section 1.pdf, on page 180
... numerous complaints to the officers from the War Office on the matter, no proper amelioration resulted ...
BMH.WS0755 section 2.pdf, on page 56
... 268. much danger as the rank and file of their followers. Eamonn De Valera and Arthur Griffith are not sitting safely in some office, protected by the lives of millions and gambling in other people's lives, but they are making their own. Eamonn De Valera two years ago was saved - Oh! I believe ...
BMH.WS0755 section 3.pdf, on page 22
... and responsibility of his office conformed to the ideal of getting and givibg value for the money involved ...
BMH.WS0755 section 3.pdf, on page 68
... worked perfectly; its success was in no small way due to the importance of the office and the fact ...
BMH.WS0755 section 3.pdf, on page 126
... to the British Crown; the office of Governor General, and that Ireland was to have two parliaments instead ...
BMH.WS0755 section 3.pdf, on page 140
... become a kind of settled policy for them to institute repeated raids on office of these papers ...
BMH.WS0755 section 3.pdf, on page 171
... and glorified the person and office of the English King's representative - a governor general - and provided ...
WS Ref #: 1593 , Witness: James Reilly, Captain IRA, Westmeath, 1921
... . stationed in Kinnegad was of any use to' us in this respect. The post office in Kinnegad was of no use ... one enemy post of importance in our area and that was Kinnegad. There were no changes ...
WS Ref #: 1609 , Witness: Michael O'Carroll, Officer IV and IRA Column Leader, Kilkenny, 1918 - 1921
... the Post Office that an appeal had been sent to the British Military Authorities to send a military ... Battalion at its formation and continued in that post until he had to leave the area about two months ...
... in Graignamanagh was at that time being considered by the Company Officers. It was then the only enemy post ...
... sound of the military post. Again it was thought that as his body would not be found, his sudden ...
... a branch road leads to Gowran. At that tine the only enemy post in our Battalion area ...
... to their post. Then followed a series of somewhat similar disappointments. For instance, whilst in the 4th ...
WS Ref #: 1742 , Witness: Patrick Hearne, Fianna Eireann, Waterford, 1921
... is emphasised by the sequel to one of them. This one was the raid on the General Post Office on the Quay. One ... flow of information in and out. The Co-operation scheme was now working well, and when the Post ...
... that during all the period only one despatch failed to come from the Stationmaster's office directed ... office one morning when the stationmaster's correspondence arrived. The Stationmaster could make nothing ... Barracks with it. When T. Galvin came into the office a short time after he (the Stationmaster) told ...
WS Ref #: 804 , Witness: Mortimer O'Connell, Member IV, 1913 - 1916; Clerk, Dail Eireann, 1919
... 6. to expect a Rising or had got sufficient hints to conclud that something was pending, and according to instructions he handed in the arranged telegram at the Valentis local post-office on Easter ... of the British Consul in New York. This office would be open day and night because the British were ...
... the Post Office garrison who had previously surrendered were lying on the grass. We joined them and lay ...
... 29. Here". He had lived and worked in Stafford for seven or eight years as a Post Office Superintendent, was liable to conscription and saw the possibility of himself being forced into the army. Yet none of those who knew him split on him. From the station we marched to the barracks. On the way we ...
... by cable with the British Foreign Office in London. Thus the British Authorities in London got ... cut all the cross channel wires in the telegraph office in Amiens St. The reason I am stating ...
... of 'Irish Freedom' to the Keating Branch was to post copies to those whose names were on the mailing list ...
... Typographical Association Office in Gardiners Street. After I took up duty in the Customs and Excise ...
... 1914 at the office of 'Irish Freedom' in D'Olier St. was his ...
... 52. office mider Kitchener ignored Redmond, who then said the place of all Irishmen was in the British army. I wonder what would have happened if the reservists had remained at home, Would the British Government have acceded to a demand by Redmond for immediate Home Rule? If not, and if Redmond had ...
WS Ref #: 838 , Witness: Sean Moylan, OC 3 Southern Division IRA, 1921; Member Dail Cabinet 1951 - 1954
... 86. The mail, bags arrived at Newmarket in the early morning accompanied by their retinue of cycling troops. The bags were delivered to the Post Office, the Tommies waited in the street outside for their own letters. Two or three Volunteers arrived into the office by a back door, held up the stall ...
... 84. leakage of information. The cure adopted was to keep the knowledge of proposed future activity within a very narrow circle and to carry out certain raids on the mails so as to discover if the channel of leakage was through the post office. We believed that the raid would be prolific ...
... and the Battalion Quartermaster's post, which he held, became vacant. I did not immediately fill it and now I selected Sean Nunan for the post. A post may be held to the general satisfaction by a line of men ...
... for the post (with which view I disagreed) and stepped aside to permit me to occupy it. From that day ... deprived ham of much of his vitality. The post was an important one, needed a man of thrust, energy ... to say that I have known no better man. I put Jim Riordon of Kiskeam into Seán's vacant post ...
... . The following day I was brought before the Colonel of the Regiment in his office. As I waited outside the office I noticed a large gong on which the Arms of the Regiment were engraved. On the top was the word "Egypt" and in the centre the figures 1798. When I went into the office I found to men in civilian ...
... much. The new Divisional O.C. called me. He was delighted with his new post and expressed that delight ... his work well and was the obvious choice for the vacant post. I had no desire for a change ...
... to the monotony of my days inside the prison. The following day I was called again to the office where I had a conversation with Barry Sullivan. There were three men in the office. One was Barry Sullivan ...
... the most important post as even if the men inside were not wholly successful, a cool, determined man ...
... 104. I pressed my claim to this post. In private life I had been a builder. I knew the trade from the ground up and felt that nobody could handle the job as effectively as I could. The Brigade Commandant nut his foot down. He paid me a compliment with which I was not at all pleased. He said that I ...
... 105. My cup of disappointment and humiliation was not yet full. I had no doubt that being denied the post I sought I was to be a member of the storming party. The Brigade Commandant called me and ordered me to proceed to a district about twenty miles from the scene of the proposed operations ...
... , the essential qualities for the post. The material was delivered and ...
... was harried from pillar to post without getting any real opportunity for striking ...
... . We decided that the British had gone to Kingwilliamstown to post their latest proclamation and we ...
... must he recognised. They kept up a night long attack with inadequate weapons on a strong post ...
... 184. XIV. The members of the Battalion A.S.U. who had been away for a few days' rest were now back again and full of disappointment because of their absence from Tourreengariffe. An attack on Newmarket Military Post was my King Charles' Head. I thought of and tried to plan for it at all times. Now ...
... decided on was to post several Volunteers armed with revolvers at Millstreet Station. These were ...
... secured a post as an Irish teacher. McGrath's father had been an R.I.C. Sergeant and stationed ...
... office on the following morning. Torn 'phoned Michael Somerville, Secretary of the Carpenters' Union ...
... 80. life. Another chapter of French history was closed. Disorder reigned everywhere in Spain. Soldiers had mutinied in Saragossa; there were outbreaks in Valencia and Santander and a militarist outburst was soon to drive the Cabinet out of office. Truly Mr. Dooley interpreted Sherman right when he ...
... to keep the Battalions nose to the grindstone. There was nobody to perform a like office for me. I ...
... was immediately established; during its period of office none of its decisions was ever questioned ...
... ", I said, "as I was coming into the office I saw outside a gong with the word "Egypt" on top ...
... officers and that evening I was brought to an office where there was a Notary Public. I had to make ...
WS Ref #: 872 , Witness: Thomas Ketterick, Officer IRA, Mayo, 1921
... of wine there and went over to the Post Office where I wired Westport under the name of a very ... . I paid my bill and made for the station. There, in the parcel office, I met an old friend whom I ...
... sadly disillusioned when we arrived in the Governor's office to pick up our belongings for there we ...
... a request, one. day, to attend the Governor's office where I was confronted by R.I.C. from Mayo ...