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WS Ref #: 879 , Witness: Brian Monaghan, Commandant IRA, Donegal, 1921
... carried out raids on the local Post Office and on the local railway station where we removed ...
... to surrender. The garrison refused to surrender and defended their post. After sane time this sniping ...
... Barracks, which was then a very strong post and a defence was put up to resist any attempt at successfully ...
... to evacuate this post. From the start of the Civil War in County Donegal, the campaign developed ...
... handed them over to the Volunteers. General Raid for Arms and raids for Office and Telegraphic Equipment ...
WS Ref #: 885 , Witness: Sean Kennedy, Lieutenant IV, Dublin, 1916; IRA, 1921
... appointed lock-smith to the British Post Office of the day, I availed of my pass and an armlet which ...
... 21. opening of pillar boxes which resisted the efforts. of the collecting postmen and, after the usual red tape I was called in to perform the job. On one occasion my duty as lock-smith took me to Ballsbridge Post Office and while there I noticed that the floor was very oily. This struck me ...
... Office, whose function it Was to enquire into our treatment and to ascertain if we had any complaints ...
WS Ref #: 890 , Witness: Edward Fullerton, Captain IRA, Newry, 1921
... rushing around everywhere. ATTEMPT TO CAPTURE POST OFFICE EQUIPMENT NEAR CORRAGS, JUNE 1921 Shortly ...
... 27. McMahon and me to Dublin was apparently to Secure munitions for South Down area. We had a Crossley motor tender and lifted two truck loads of military equipment at the Post Office Stores in Brunswick St. and took the stuff to the military barracks, Dundalk. Later on, I procured from Mr. Harry ...
... , to another post. So we returned to Newry. During the Spring months of 1921 none of us stayed at our ...
WS Ref #: 891 , Witness: Maurice Meade, Member Irish Brigade, Germany, 1916; Member IRA, Limerick, 1921
... 23. Owen O'Keeffe was in the post office with some other East Limerick men when the military enteied there and they, had to fight their way out the back way, but they managed to do this and got away. Concerning enemy casualties, I know that there were seventeen soldiers in the first Leyland lorry ...
... on a telegraph pole and as we suspected that he might be acting as an enemy observation post, we took ...
WS Ref #: 892 , Witness: T.J. Shanley, New York; Friend of Eamon de Valera and IRA leaders, 1919
... Statement by The Very Reverend Father Timothy Shanley, P.P. 1922 Early in January 1922, I received a telegram signed by Harry Boland and Liam Mellows. It was sent to ray home Post Office, Dromod, and relayed to Drumlesh, Co. Longford, where I was staying with Canon Keville for a few days ...
... to the British Passport Office. I had already my own American Passport. I was to get a Passport ... the name of Mr. Oliver in the Passport Office. When Éamon asked for him the man behind the desk ...
WS Ref #: 895 , Witness: Harold McBrien, Commandant IRA, Sligo, 1921
... 11. on to July I proceeded Ito. Dublin to see if I could buy some arms. We had collected an amount of money by taking up the Dog Licences in the area and we also had raided the Court Clerk's office ... ; but this was only of local value. We had no contact inside any enemy post. There were no ...
... of twenty five to thirty men and was strongly fortified. We made a reconnaissance of this post with a view ...
WS Ref #: 904 , Witness: John Austin, Observer of Battle of Ashbourne 28/4/1916
... -2- At this time I worked in the Post Office in the village and delivered all telegrams and messages, and it was I who delivered any messages that came through to the police. When the Rebellion started in Dublin on Easter Monday, no attempt was made by the police to barricade or fortify ...
WS Ref #: 909 , Witness: Sidney Czira, 'John Brennan'; authoress; Sister of Grace Gifford, widow of Joseph M. Plunkett executed, 1916; Officer, Cumann na mBan, Dublin
... with the quotation from the Liverpool Post and he published it with banner headlines and an editorial comment ... thus became a frequent visitor to the office and I contributed several articles to the paper. Thus ...
... the post from Ireland several Irish daily papers such as The Independent and the Freeman and a copy ... the Liverpool Post of September 12th 1914, suggesting that 300,000 Irishmen could be recruited to the British ...
... of America. The scene of some of the fiercest argument and almost boxing matches was the office ... outside its office, in which the news was posted - always favourable to the Allies. The nationals ...
... with the British War Office, to which I replied, trying to bluff him, "You do not hold me responsible for my family ... a baby of 9 months old. One day, when she was in the Irish Press office, I asked her whether she ...
... used to scrawl my articles in my appalling handwriting and send them by post. It was Séamus ...
... back to England and the editorial post was given to Helena Molony who, with the extra- ordinary ...
... a supply of anti-enlistment posters to local anti-British people for them to post them up in suitable ...
... American, Fr. Magennis gave him some post that was in his power to give. The cause of the trouble ...
... with these meetings or losing his post on the "Gaelic American". Without hesitation he made the choice. He would ...
... for Recruits. Why? This is the answer-taken from the English Liverpool Post of September 12th:- Half ...
... is always there, and so when I went to the Passport Office I put on the best English accent I could summon ...
WS Ref #: 920 , Witness: Augustine, Friend of IV leaders, 1916
... nothing of the surrender of the General Post Office which had taken place before 4 o'clock, nor even ...
... "A" A.P.M's. Office, Curragh Camp, Co. KILDARE. 13th February, l954. Lt. -ColoneL J.M. MacCarthy, Bureau of Military History. I have this day authenticated the manuscript account of his; Easter Week experiences handed me by V. Rev. Fr. Augustine, O.F.M. Cap., and which is being placed ...
... "B" A.P.M's Office, Collins Barracks, Cork. 5th December, l949. A Chara, I Acknowledge receipt of your lett letter dated 25th ult., ref. S.297, with enclosures for Father Augustine, O.F.M., Cap. Father Augustine informa me that the Bureau may retain his unfinished manu- acript account of the Easter ...
... in a spiritual way for the boys who had taken over the Father Mathew Hall as a first-aid post ...
... , but would like to go to confession before taking up his post. He left his gun standing against the wall ...
WS Ref #: 924 , Witness: Mary A Cremin, nee Sheehan; Widow of Michael Cremin; Secretary Cumann na mBan, London, 1913 - 1923
... at that time. They were the boy clerks in the Post Office Savings Bank, earning very little money ...
... it. He was a clerk in the Post Office and later when the war was over and he was back in his job ...
... and other communications. Tom Donoghue, who worked in some government office in Whitehall, had gone over ... from a fellow-worker in Paddy's office, where Paddy was and whether he had gone to Ireland ...
... 6. I always travelled back to London the next night as I would only take a day's leave from the office for this work. I did this also during the Civil War and then I also carried sums of money that were raised in America. I remember one or two occasions when w sister and myself brought large sums ...