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WS Ref #: 968 , Witness: John ("Jaco") Lenehan, Member IV and IRA, Kerry, 1914 - 1921
... the same man on the aide of the street opposite Listowal post office. He was walking very fast ... was in the D.I.'s office at the Police Barracks looking out of the window, I saw the D.I. standing ...
... of the Post Office after the murder. 5 6 4 7 3 8 2 9 1 Ø 10. Witness The name of this man was Daniel 0 ...
... an external post-mortem examination of the body of of Tobias O'Sullivan, District Inspector, R.I.G ...
... :- At Listowel at about 1 p.m. on the 20th January, 1921, I was in the District Inspector's office ...
WS Ref #: 985 , Witness: Peter O'Loughlin, Captain IRA, Clare, 1921
... Cosgrove - a sorter in the Ennis post Office. He did most useful work at considerable risk to himself ... to raid the office. I remember about half a dozen such raids. Of course the raiders generally wore ...
... 10. to the charge of Frank Cullinane, 0/C. of the Inch Company. Next day, with six or seven other Volunteers, I went out to Inch and censored all this mail. The letters addressed to the general public were, placed back in the mail bags and left at the local post office, while all correspondence ...
... in Ennis, Michael McMahon. Next morning I called at his office where the clerk, Patrick Carroll ...
WS Ref #: 994 , Witness: George F.H Berkeley, Officer IV, 1914
... -30- CHAPTER V THE POLICY OF REPRESSION AS I SAW IT. colonel Pope Hennessy D.S.O. held an important post at the War Office, but this did not prevent his being an excellent Irishman, just like his ... of a War Office Department. I know he has had a miserable time; regarded as one who sympathised ...
... months of office, but he cost us £500 a year; and he was now offered an important post ... of the office. It was automatically passing into the hands of Irish people, simply because they were more ...
... to the office except for committee meetings, and never spoke for us. People probably did not realise his ...
... -41- CHAPTER V11 BEGINNINGS: OUR MOVEMENT'S PROGRESS UP TO THE END OF 1920. We took an office and started operations. My chief regret now is that I did not keep a diary during my year of work in the office of the P.W.I.C. It would have been profoundly interesting, whereas my recollections as I can ...
... after another in our tiny office. The first case that impressed me deeply was one brought in by an ex ... . At first I had not intended to go into the office permanently, but Basil Williams urged me to do so ...
... in the recruiting office during the war, and hastened to inform me that "Ulster had sent more recruits than ... supplied from the Chief Secretary's office, that there had been 47,000 Protestant recruits, and 81,000 ...
... - 119 - CHAPTER X11. CROZIER REAPPEARS NOW BRIG. GENERAL F.P. CROZIER x C.B.. C.M.G., D.S.O For the short period of three days I kept a diary of my work in the office and then decided ... , and moreover happens to describe the visit of General Crozier to our office, it seems worth including ...
... before he visited our office, and several others as well. I may say that neither we, nor I believe Sinn ... to work in the office. Everyone was waiting for "Staff". I had known nothing of his coming, but he ...
... scheme that he had in hand. In fact throughout all that year that I worked in our office, it always ...
... Office. At the age of over 48 he had made no attempt to go abroad. He quite agreed ...
... to one's duty about Ireland. I strolled down to the office of Sir Robert Perks with whom I was already ...
... took Harrison round to their office, and he gave them an excellent list of people to consult, far ...
... . we had an excellent Secretary, Mr. De Lisle Burns, but a very bad, tiny office, and as yet it had ...
... remember her first appearance one evening in our tiny office. She was tall, well-built good-looking ...
... - 55 - were ready to do clerk's work for nothing or, if this were impossible, for low salaries. As will be seen by their names, they were all members of well-known families of the Irish gentry. x As I am recording our work during this period, I shall just give a short description of the office ...
... rather takem me away from my description of the office routine. But the above gives an idea of the sort ...
... -59- was an independent one from the rest of the office I was in reality a sub-committee of the Council, charged with attending to meetings: my original collaborator Pringle (a Liberal M.P.) had been too busy at the House of Commons to help me. And I soon ceased calling on him, because the police ...
... which ware kept in the outer office by the ladies who volunteered to work for us. They spent hours ...
... this work, as we were all tied to the office. Finally just before the end, we had some paid organisers ...
... Dominion League. And I felt that if the office could spare me for Edinburgh it could equally well ...
... - 72 - poured forth his story in the solicitor's office, in order to get justice for the assassination of his only brother. It seems that they lived together in the same lodgings, both being at work in business houses in Dublin. A few evenings ago James Murphy (the murdered man) went out ...
... of having his office raided and his business as a solicitor seriously injured. But he says that he doesn't ...
... Stopford had written over to me from the office saying that I was wanted back there to continue my work ...
... of Nations Office, I determined at all costs to see Lord Robert Cecil himself as well as his private ...
... was compelled to give it up. There was too much work in the office. I could not get away, and found it too ...
... - 121 - This translation of my diary gives a very slight idea of the way in which 'Staff" as he was nicknamed for safety, surprised us that morning. We were absolutely astounded at his boldness. He walked straight into the office where six of us were congregated, none of whom had he ever seen ...
... (to the authorities) her house was burnt as a reprisal. Tuesday. A day of work at the office. I saw my ...
... - 127 - shout back at him, but Buckmaster simply thundered back at him with an overwhelming scorn that entirely effaced him. "Think of it. Think, - if you have a mind at all". Meanwhile our daily work at the office went on as usual. Our efforts now, as far as they were constructive, consisted ...
... to the office. We continued to plod along through this phenominally hot summer. Waller, besides his ...
WS Ref #: 1017 , Witness: Patrick Cassidy, Commandant IRA, Mayo, 1921
... ." News of the ambush was received from the Post Office. Tudor remained in town until a heavy escort of armoured cars arrived to take him away. The enquiry was never held. We raided the Excise office ...
... were not able to make contact with any member of the enemy forces of any value. The Post Office ... , were hostile to us. Liscull Past Office was all right and anxious to help us, but had nothing ...
... -15- of days but no enemy force showed up. We raided the local Post Office and fired shots, and got a man to go to the barracks and report us as being in the area, to try and get them out but to no avail - they would not oblige. For this attempt we had a big party of Volunteers, about forty all ...
... of Ballaghaderreen, and packages fell from the shelves in the shops. A high sandbagged post was now erected ...
... and I don't think they had any either. Shortly after this incident, the garrison evacuated this post ...
WS Ref #: 1159 , Witness: Denis J O'Driscoll, Commandant IRA, Tipperary, 1921
... , I became acquainted with the Post Office Linesman. He was friendly and sympathetic towards ... ), with about the sane party of men, I raided the Excise Officer's office. We took away all the income ...
... the income tax papers and records in the office of the Excise Officer in Carrick.-on-Suir. With a small party of seven or eight Volunteers I approached the office of the Excise Officer on Easter Saturday ...
... 8. Under Cover of darkness the Column came into the town and took up positions at three points on the Main Street. The patrol left the barracks at about 8 p.m. and its progress was signalled by the scouts. I saw Denis Lacey at his post on the Main Street and reported to him that the patrol ...
WS Ref #: 1365 , Witness: Bulmer Hobson, Member Supreme Council IRB, 1915; General Secretary IV, 1916; Founder Fianna Eireann 1902 (Belfast) and 1909 (Dublin)
... every week I used to send him all the news that could be trusted to the post. His work took him first ... that was carrying on the traffic and the Foreign Office was forced to take action. Two Peruvians, The Arana ... . They were in process of being wiped out, but the profits rolled into London. The Foreign Office in London ...
... Office was forced to take action. Two Peruvians, The Arana Brothers, had come to London and floated ... , but the profits rolled into London. The Foreign Office in London told the English Directors of the Company ...
... and nearly every week I used to send him all the news that could be trusted to the post. His work took him ...
... 2. Casement was a Consul in the employment of What was then the United Kingdom of Gt. Britain and Ireland and the Foreign Office asked him to investigate and report on conditions in the Congo. He had been in Africa for many years and had explored large areas then almost unknown to Europeans. He ...
... Office. Normand was a ringleader of the gang. Casement's only consolation was that now he could leave ...
... Was then the United Kingdom of Gt. Britain and Ireland and the Foreign Office asked him to investigate and report ...
... was part of the evidence he was sending into the Foreign Office. Normand was a ringleader of the gang ...
WS Ref #: 147 , Witness: Bernard McAllister, Officer IV and IRA, Fingal, 1913 - 1921
... . This. was my first time to see Dick Mulcahy. He went in to the Post Office and dismantled the telegraph ... Master's Office. Our section proceeded towards the Barracks. The Barracks looked formidable - it had ...
... to the post Office and dismantled the telegraph instruments and then proceeded back to camp ...
... in the Telegraph Office, which we did. There were only a few people around. They were nervous, but we assured ...
WS Ref #: 171 , Witness: Peadar McCann, Member IRB, 1905 and IV, Newry, 1916
... became a post office P. Mac C. ... in a loft on the Mall behind Cahill's Drapery Store) but I was the only one who held office therein, having ...
... Grant, a builder's clerk, and Dominick McGuigan, an ex-post- office official, were prominent ...
... of Fleming's Hotel, Dublin), later very prominently associated with the post-1916 movement. It is now very ...
WS Ref #: 454 , Witness: Bridie O'Reilly, Typist IRA, Headquarters, 1921
... , accompanied by the Dublin Metropolitan Police, on Armistice Day, 1919. I was quite new to the office ... Cullen's office in Bachelor's Walk, Where we remained until a suitable place was found. Tom had some post in the Quartermaster General's staff. At that time, I was still rather new to the work and I ...
... , and there happened to be a lad, called George Fitzgerald, of the let Battalion in the office. We ... were not really of vital importance, only headed stationery, the office stamp and such things. We had really removed them, in order that Mrs. Power's place would not be recognised as an office. We got ...
... don't know the contents of the message, as I did not type it. The office staff continued to take ... in various places and there were many new recruits to the I.R.A. Visitors from the country to the office were ... for the Adjutant-General. It was from the Adjutant-General's office at its various headquarters that the I.R.A ...
... for him ceased. We became very busy in our office too. On one occasion just as I left the house in Belmont Avenue, where Dick Mulcahy was working, a detective followed me. He must have been waiting ... nothing. I got on to a tram and, as I knew that Gearoid was at a meeting in an office in Dawson ...
... did. I proceeded into the building and up to our office, where I found Micheál O'Loinsigh and Miss ... and down a lane, as my case was full of incriminating documents. Our office was not raided that particular ... at this stage remember any details. I cannot be sure that Cathal Brugha ever came to that office. Dick McKee ...
... and was introduced to him as the new Adjutant-General. The onus was left on him to find an office to deal with the work of the Adjutant-General's Department. My best recollection is that the first office he ...
... and brought them to the office on his push- bike. Two of these places come to my mind at the moment ... that office. Volunteer officers from the country would come now and again, ...
... be sent up to him from our office. I was sent as I knew the district and Fr. O'Flanagan well. I found ...
WS Ref #: 521 , Witness: Gerry Golden, Member IV and IRA, Dublin, 1916 - 1921
... Mulcahy and his men had entered the Post Office and severed the telephonic and telegraphic lines, smashed ... with all the cash in the office, giving a receipt for same in the name of the Irish Republic. When ...
... from our post and the foregoing is what some of the men in the camp told us. Some of the men told ...
... 28. road about half a mile from the Camp. The sentries left the camp about 7.30 and Paddy and I arrived at our post at just 8 o'clock and relieved the two men who had been on duty from 4 p.m. We were told we would be relieved at 12 midnight and were given the password "Rath Cross". We were ordered ...
... Volunteer Army for Ireland". About the middle of November 1914 I got a job in a Solicitor's office ...