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WS Ref #: 1684 , Witness: James ("Spud") Murphy, Officer IV and IRA, Cork, 1917 - 1921
... 12. our covering sections on the building but, as there was no hope of capturing the post ... there. They fired a few shots at each post and then withdrew. The strength of the column was now reduced to about 40. The men from the western battalions (Bantry, Castletownbere and Schull) returned ...
... , Skibbereen, Bantry and Castletownbere. About a year later, the Bantry Battalion was divided into two, thus making Bantry and Schull. The officers of the Cork No. 3 Brigade were: 0/C. Tom Hales; V.0/C. (I ...
... it necessary to engage them. The members of the column at Kilmichael were: Denis Cronin, Bantry; Mick ...
... 8. Dunmanway; Sonny Crowley, Dunmanway; Denis O'Neill, Baltimore; John D. O'Sullivan, Caheragh; John Falvey, Upton, Michael 0'Donovan, Clogagh; Batty Coughlan, Dunmanway; Michael O'Driscoil Bantry; Michael Mccarthy, Dunmanway (killed); James O'Sullivan, Knockawadra, Clonakilty (tilled); Pat Deasy ...
... of the evacuated R.I.C. post at Milltown and the coastguard station. When the Local Government elections were ...
... and also about 200 yards south of No. 1 post to advise approach of the enemy from Macroom ...
... remained in the ton for about two hours and fired a few shots at the enemy post but, as no enemy forces ...
... of Drimoleague where arrangements had been made to attack the R.I.C. post there. The Position was surveyed ...
... about 10 feet high and about ten yards from the No. 1 post, and north of the road. c. No. 3 section ...
WS Ref #: 1643 , Witness: Sean Healy, (Blackrock County Dublin) Captain IRA, Cork, 1921
... . A leakage of information was subsequently reported when a Post Office Engineer was sent to make ... to deal with this Post Office Engineer. After disclosing my identity, I informed him that if he took ... must mention that the telephone tapping idea of ours accidentally originated in the Parcels Office ...
... of telephone lines was another method we employed of seeking enemy information. Post Office Linesman ... of the Post Office Staff, therefore they were very cautious about sending important messages over the public telephone. Very few of our men knew of the operation of this listening-in-post, and we worked ...
... convenient to my office at the railway station. The fact that I had the same name as the people ...
... holding the dignified office of Lord Mayor of Cork, and the rank of a Brigadier in the Irish ...
... we placed a guard on duty at the office in order to prevent anybody from using the telephone ...
... , and Naval, Headquarters. Joe Browne, who was employed as a Naval Writer in the British Admiral's Office ...
WS Ref #: 497 , Witness: Eamon Bulfin, Lieutenant IV, Dublin, 1916
... then we got an order to proceed over to the Post Office immediately; either that, or somebody, who had ... that our forces were in the Post Office; but we did not get any written orders or instructions. Having ... place from the Post Office and from positions across from the Poet Office - the Imperial Hotel ...
... on the roof of the Post Office. We moved all our bag and baggage, including the grenades, up to the roof of the Post Office. We held that posltion all the time until Wednesay evening. A Franciacan ... him afterwards. There were two flags on the Post Office. One was given to me. It was the ordinary ...
... the premises of the Post Office until the evacuation. The first gun fire was either Thursday night or Friday. I think there was one gun bidden up beyond the Post Office, at the Y.M.C.A. I remeaiber distinctly the Post Office being hit by shells. 'Ne were informed that the floor above us was made of ferro ...
... forever. We had our bombs on top of the Poet Office and these fireworks were shooting up in the sky. We ... Street in the front of the Post Cffice, but before that the British began to infiltrate in the O'connell Bridge sector. They had established a machine gun post in Purcell's shop at the ...
... . There was no cohesion. Nobody seemed to be in charge once we left the Post Office; it was every man for him8elf ...
... by the Post Off ice in to O'Connelj. Street. We laid down arms between the Greshani and the Parneli ...
WS Ref #: 868 , Witness: Patrick Kearney, Member IV and IRA, Dublin, 1913 - 1921
... in the Post Office. While there I met Judge O'Byrne who was then a second division clerk in the Post Office Savings Bank and with whom Mick Collins, who was a Post Office clerk, lived. I was invited ... the Post Office service and returned to Ireland in 1912. I was working in Eason's when the big strike ...
WS Ref #: 937 , Witness: Cathleen McCarthy, Sister of Padraig O'Riain, one of the founders of Fianna Eireann
... 5. for anything for himself. He was one of the two people in the Post Office service that refused to take the oath of allegiance to the British. On one occasion when he was bringing out a message he was in a group held up by the military for searching. He put the piece of paper in his mouth ...
... , but she had left when I arrived back home. My husband Paddy McCarthy is in the Post Office and was during the time of the trouble. He used to bring out messages that came in code through the office ... to the north. He went under a false name as he was in 'The Hue and Cry'. He got a job in a bookey's office ...
... was working in the Gaelic League office at No. 25 Rutland Square (now Parnell Square). He was assisting ...
WS Ref #: 1001 , Witness: Thomas Lavin, Commandant IRA, Roscommon, 1921
... ROINN COSANTA. BUREAU OF MILITARY HISTORY, 1913-21 STATEMENT BY WITNESS. DOCUMENT NO. W.S. 1,001 Witness Thomas Lavin, The Post Office, Ballytore, Co. Kildare. Identity. 0/C. Ballyfarnon Coy. Irish Volunteers, Co. Roscommon. Vice-Comd't. 4th Battalion North Roscommon Brigade. Subject. Ballyfarnon ...
... and Tom Lynam and I would proceed to Ballyfarnon and raid the Post Office there. Meanwhile ... an ambush position there where we would join them after raiding the Post Office. The Postmaster ... to Ballyfarnon Post Office we were unexpectedly joined by the Brigade O.C. Dockery, and I told him ...
... STATEMENT BY Mr. T. LAVIN, The Post Office, Ballytore, Co. Kildare. In February, 1917, the Irish Volunteers were being organised in Ballyfarnon Co. Roscomnon by Andy Lavin who came from Creevagh and who was a relation of mine. I joined the Volunteers there at this time. We had about seventeen ...
... 10. The position taken up was a good one, fully covering the road and giving good observation towards Keadue and also giving us a good line of retreat to the mountains at our rear. We had raided the Post Office at 3 a.m. on the morning of the 21st March, 1921 and were in the ambush position ...
... outstanding value. In fact all Volunteers were Intelligence agents as things went. The only Post Office ...
WS Ref #: 1052 , Witness: Sean MacEntee, Senior Officer IV and IRA, 1916 - 1921; Member Dail Cabinet, 1932 - 1948
... and laying them along to the roof. The final attack on the Post Office had begun. ...
... them first and then to make a shorter rush across the street to the Post Office from the Imperial ... from the English at Amiens Street, joined our comrades holding the post on the other side. S ...
... -92- round into O'Connell Street, we heard a hail from one of the Henry Street windows. A moment's interrogation satisfied those inside regarding our identity. We were told to climb in through that particular window, and, a minute later, we stood inside the Post Office. Here we were taken charge ...
... flag floated over the Henry Street corner of the Post Office. A little later, a shell struck the corner of the Metropole Hotel and, a minute after that, another struck the balustrade of the Post ... across the street to the Post Office. They went across in single file, running under fire all the way ...
... their position in one of the establishments of the Dublin Bread Company and to fall back on the Post Office ... , to the Post Office. They were lining up at the corner, ready for the dash, when, bidding my astounded ...
... was being carried on between our men on the Post Office roof and the English troops at Findlater's ... cheers for John Redmond!" He stopped for a little under the very windows of the Post Office, and someone ...
... but to retreat, picking up our comrades on the way, and to try to make the Post Office. Back we ... of Finance, should make a preliminary dash for the Post Office. If he arrived there, he was to arrange ...
... orders that the whole female nursing staff were to leave the Post Office and, under cover of the White ... to remain in the Post Office to the last, and tearfully they implored Mr. Pearse not to insist upon ...
... -106- CHAPTER ELEVEN The attack on the Post Office had begun. Not a direct frontal attack, not an attack where men advanced in the open and met their foe face to face - this attack was more subtle ... of the undefended towns of Belgium dropped bomb after bomb indiscriminately. In a little while, the Post Office ...
... that position until the main body came up. It was about seven o'clock when we left the Post Office and filed ... from the main body, he spoke a few words to us, saying that it had been decided to evacuate the Post Office and that we, under the command of The O'Rahilly, were to act as an advance guard. Our task ...
... - "and all the Volunteers are round the Post Office. They have rushed in and broken all the windows ...
... , strong voice, the President began:- "Headquarters: Army of the Irish Republic, General Post Office ...
... -80- I asked my companion - for I was grievously ignorant of the geography of Dublin and, for guidance, was entirely in his hands - if we could not get an even closer view of the Post Office. He ... and dolls and pop-guns; there were post-cards and umbrellas and tin whistles; there were Ingersoll watches ...
... surroundings. Those who were familiar with the Dublin Post Office in the days before the insurrection ... -94- all soldiers in work of the kind. After breakfast, my first concern was to report at the Staff office. This I did, and was told to report again later, when the Commandant-General, James Connolly ...
... was telegraphist in the Dundalk Post Office and, as great good luck had it, he was on duty there on Easter ...
... of these circumstances, I should not have been able to get back to Dublin, should not have been in the Post Office, should not have been sentenced to death, nor been in penal servitude; MacGee, the policeman ...
... country round was alive with rumours of such landing - and that the bombardment of the Post Office ...
... Place", I told him. "Oh, begobs, that's down be the Post Office - why, man, that's where all ...
... , and I told them I was particularly anxious to get to the Post Office. They thought ...
... be speedily dealt with before nightfall. The British Navy would have finished off the rebels in the Post Office, and Sir Edward Carson's little game to kill Home Rule and to undo Mr. Redmond's handiwork would ...
... that corner, we could see the Post Office. It was a trifle risky, but he would show me the way if I liked ...
... be in the early morning of a Sunday in summer. Down the street rose the massed bulk of the Post Office ...
... -87- fiercely around him, and we began to think he had been badly hit. Then, suddenly springing to his feet, he ran, limping a little into the safety of the Post Office. Meanwhile, we could see the conflagration wax fiercer and spread with great rapidity. Desperate efforts were made to cope ...
... that it had been arranged to admit us to the Post Office by the door in Henry Street. Therefore, those who ...
... -93- CHAPTER TEN Next morning in the Post Office, we were early astir. About five o'clock or so, we were told to tumble out and to present ourselves for breakfast in the men's mess. The prospect of breakfast was an incentive to hasten; and, two minutes after the order was given, we might have been ...
... , the Post Office and an in it were doomed. A call was given for volunteers to help to remove ...
... -111- the Post Office doorway, a barricade had been erected and, a very little way beyond this, was Moore Street. Up Moore Street we turned and proceeded along each side of the street in single file, keeping close to the walls of the houses all the while. As the leading files and the main length ...
... who had received myself and my comrades in the Post Office on the preceding Thursday night ...
... . To our right, down towards O'Connell's statue, the fires of the Post Office and the Imperial Hotel still ...
... -32- unstarched collar and an old necktie, the metamorphosis was complete, and I went back to the staff office, where Connolly was to procure me one or two road maps. As I entered the office ... about Liberty Hall, and I was very chary of going directly from the building to the booking office ...
... men, was over, Tom Clarke brought me downstairs again to the Staff office and presented me ... . The Staff office was situated in the wing of the building which fronted on O'Connell Street. In the space almost immediately opposite the main entrance hail and midway in this wing, an office had been ...
... a finger-post, one of the arms of which read, "Ashbourne 8 miles". A short distance past the fingerpost ...
... , by the police who raided my office and my digs. The Town Hall was booked for the meeting which, of course, was never held. It was on Holy Thursday afternoon that Paddy Hughes came into my office ...
... on duty all the previous day outside the Volunteer office ...
... which apparently had been the editorial office of the 'Workers' Republic'. Bundles of that journal were ...
... office, until about four o'clock in the afternoon. Then a sergeant and two orderlies came around ...
WS Ref #: 1072 , Witness: Sean McNamara, Commandant IRA, Clare, 1921
... ;: (1) Post Office. This building directly overlooked the main road coming from the Coastguard Station ... now stands. The Post Office was occupied by four men armed with rifles - Michael Burns, Austin ... O'Donoghue (shotgun) and Tom Collins (miniature rifle). Right-hand side of road. (5) On Post Office ...
... was employed as an assistant in the Ballyvaughan Post Office at this period. She was very helpful to us ... to ring the Post Office to say that a party was proceeding from the Coastguard Station for ...
... 29. the mails, and fearing that if one of the men placed by me in the Post Office that morning answered the phone the marines might 'smell a rat', she requested me to instruct these four men ... no more mails through the local Post Office and from that time onwards their mails came either by boat ...
... to send an armed party of about a dozen men under a corporal each day to collect mails at the local Post Office. They came on foot in close military formation four deep about 10 o'clock in the morning. I ...
... , Paddy Kilkelly and my brother Austin left the Post Office and began advancing along the open street ...
... to post some of the men who came with me on protection duty around Kilfenora and to instruct ...
WS Ref #: 1178 , Witness: Andrew Keaveney, Member IRB, IV and IRA, Roscommon, 1917 -1921
... 13. we saw the enemy. The people running the Post Office in the town were neutral and we got no assistance from them; not being a garrison town, they would not have much information to give. Witness: Signed: A. Keaveney (A. Keaveney) Date: 3rd June 55 3rd June 1955. Witness: Matthew Barry Comd't ...
... 1921 the Tans arrived in Castlerea and established a strong post there. They did not open a post ...
... 12. lancers from this post were proceeding into Castlerea on their withdrawal, one of a party of them who were mounted on cycles got a puncture. He went into a forge on the roadside and another man of the party was told off to wait for him. There was a man at the forge getting a horse shod ...
WS Ref #: 1209 , Witness: Stephen Keys, Member IRA, Dublin, 1918 - 1924
... not wish to mention his name here. I took part in what was the first raid, I think, for Post Office equipment in the city - I suppose around 1920. It was on the Rathmines Post Office, which ... was in charge. I remember Byrne saying that we would stay near the Post Office and stop the Post ...
... not the courage to come down to the Post Office and take them off us there, and we Won't have to pay ... into the Post Office. We. went in and took the stuff from them there, and walked away. We. brought ...
... the Post Office in Dame St. on Friday morning. Captain Gorman was in charge of 'A' Company at the time ...