Displaying results. 421 - 430 of 1246.
WS Ref #: 1286 , Witness: James Roche, (Kilscannell), Captain IRA, Limerick, 1921
... censored the mails but found noth-ing important. That night we returned the bags to Templeglantine Post Office. A few nights later, Humphrey Murphy, Battalion 0/C. Kerry No. 2 Brigade, had preparations ...
WS Ref #: 1301 , Witness: Michael Collins, Member IV and IRA, Limerick, 1921
... the local postman bringing the mail from Meanus Post Office to Fedamore and to seize the mail ...
... . Department/ Office/ Court Date: 7 March 2003. ...
WS Ref #: 1305 , Witness: Jack O'Mara, Officer IV and IRA, Waterford, 1913 - 1923
... going to the local post office. My intention was to take their guns, but, unfortunately, we found ...
... 2. Company Captain and I was 1st Lt. There were approximately thirty-five men in the company, about half a dozen of whom had shotguns. Drilling took place in the fields at night on two evenings a week. The nearest enemy post was at Ballinamult, about three miles west of Knockboy. The garrison ...
WS Ref #: 1309 , Witness: Frank O'Connor, Commandant IRA, Westmeath, 1921
... 11. letters to the members of that force from their relatives appealing to them to resign from the force. The mails were subsequently handed back to the Post Office, small consignments of them being given to the postmen at various places. Semis O'Mara was in charge of this operation. In May 1920 ...
... had information from a clerk in the Engineer's office in Athlone that a supply of explosives were ...
... . They were not in a position to report on intended enemy plans. There was a clerk in the Pot Office ...
WS Ref #: 1316 , Witness: John Flanagan, Commandant IRA, Clare, 1921
... named John Daly overheard a telephone conversation in the Knock Post Office between the officer ...
... 16. No. 3. - The R.I.C. Barracks in Toler Street, now St. Senan Street, in the centre of the town. Due to reinforcements from 'Black and Tan' sources and from outside stations the post had been ... policemen In this barracks. Each post was strongly fortified by sandbags and steel shutters on the doors ...
... or twelve shot guns. At the time there was an R.I.C. post in Killydysart garrisoned by about twenty ... post on the top of Knockerra Hill which, from its elevated position, gave a 5plendid view all over ...
... districts. Only one military post was set up there. About fifty soldiers, part of one of the Companies ...
... 8. military post in Lahinch in the Mid Glare Brigade area. He stated that he wanted our Brigade to supply twenty men to co-operate with thee Mid-Clare Volunteers in this attack. The twenty men, mostly drawn from the officers, were selected and each man had arranged to provide himself with a shot ...
WS Ref #: 1347 , Witness: Daniel Guiney, Commandant IRA, Cork, 1921
... 12. two houses as a reprisal, viz. the drapery shop of Tim Vaughan, the grocery shop of Wm. McAuliffe. About a week later they returned and destroyed the post office owned by Tim O'Sullivan. Early in February, 1921, the Battalion Column, with members of the Kiskeam and Kingwilliamstown Companies ...
... when this post was occupied by I.R.A. forces. After some time I was ordered by Seán Nunan (then 0/C ... on the Battalion Staff at Newmarket until August, 1922, when the post was evacuated by I.R.A. forces ...
... carried on for some time but towards the end of 1919 he vacated the post and returned to the ranks, where ...
WS Ref #: 1357 , Witness: Patrick Whelan, Member IRA Waterford, 1919 - 1921
... STATEMENT BY PATRICK WHELAN, 7, Shears St., Dungarvan. Co. Waterford. I was born in Dungarvan, Co. Waterford, in 1901. My people belonged, to the farm labourer class. I went to the local Christian Brothers' school and, after leaving school, I became a telegraph messenger in the Post Office ...
... 4. Previous to this, mails had been frequently held up by us and taken away for examination. As a result of these raids the R.I.C. provided an armed party each day to safeguard the mails en route from the Post Office, Dungarvan, to the railway station. Shortly before the 7.55 a.m. train from ...
... 5. Mansfield of old Parish, Dungarvan. At that time I had left my job in the post office to go on the column. We were armed mostly with shotguns. There was one rifle, a police carbine and a couple of revolvers, so far as I can remember. Ammunition was very scarce indeed. Ambush at Brown's Like ...
... , and John Cotter, Bantry, all well-known I.R.A. men in Cork. On leaving the gunboat at Belfast we were ...
... training. Raid on office of Petty Sessions Clerk: Early in 1920, along with about seven others of the Dungarvan Company, I raided the office of the Clerk of the Petty Sessions (whose names was D.J. Brennan) in Dungarvan. The raid took place at night. The lock of the office door was broken and all ...
... miles further to the east. Raid on Income Tax office. Late in the month of April, 1920, I took part in a night raid on the income Tax office at Dungarvan. About half a dozen of us did the job. Piles ...
WS Ref #: 1366 , Witness: Thomas Hourihane, Member IV and IRA, Cork, 1918 - 1921
... gone for a long ladder to cut the roof between the burning houses and the post office. These house ...
... for a long ladder to cut the roof be-twean the burning houses and the post office. Those houses wore ...
WS Ref #: 1367 , Witness: Joseph Aherne, Comdt. IRA, Cork, 1921
... arranged matters with Jeremiah Aherne's first cousin, whose brother was employed in the post office ...
... at the military post in Midleton, presumably to inspect the post. Stopping a passing motor breadvan, I got ...
... 45. Another story about him was related by the late Win. Barry, solicitor. Mr. Barry had some business to transact with some client and on his way back to his office entered the Midleton Arms Hotel ... , with a sigh of relief, slipped out and went back to his office. On another occasion, in Hurley's company ...
... was appointed O/C of the column because, in my judgement, he was more fitted for the post than O'Higgins ...
WS Ref #: 1375 , Witness: Matthew Murphy, Member IV, 1913 - 1919; Captain Millstreet Battalion IRA, Cork, 1921
... STATEMENTBY MATTHEW MURPHY, Cullen Post Office, Millstreet, Co. Cork. I was born at Gortnacreha, Cullen, on 26th May, 1899. I was educated at Lislehane National School until I reached the age of 16 years. The first national organisation in which I became interested was the Gaelic League ...
... 1920, the R.I.C. post in Culler was one of those marked down for destruction. The owner ... decided that, if gerry Singleton - the owner of the evacuated R.I.C. post - transferred his family and household effects from the house in which he was living close by to the evacuated post, no further ...
... honorary post as J.P. He was held up on his way from Knocknagree fair. A revolver and box ...
... at vantage points throughout the area. There were two men to each post and all were provided ...