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  • WS Ref #: 546 , Witness: Rose Hackett, Member Irish Citizen Army, 1916

    • ... or Miss Molony was responsible we made those grey-backed shirts, and a lot of them went to the Post Office garrison. Coming near that time, we were holding them back, in case they would be required. I ...

    • ... at the first-aid post in the park. It was very exciting there. We were under very heavy fire from late on Monday evening. Even when we marked out the first-aid post with a red sign, they did ...

    • ... said; "Wait till I get the head". I told the men in the printing office that the police were ...

  • WS Ref #: 548 , Witness: Daithi O'Donoghue, Official Department of Finance, Dail Eireann, 1919 -1921

    • ... acquainted with the financial position by means of our own Post Office service. I am also handing ...

    • ... to the organising ability and tireless energy of Micheál Ó Coileáin who held both the office of Minister in the Daíl for Finance and the office of Director of Intelligence in the Army. Organisation of various Dáil Departments. Now that funds were available the time had come for the provision of office ...

    • ... ), who had gone to U.S.A. The Republican Courts, etc. were organised by Austin who had his office ... . Almost opposite, on the North Quay, Gearóid Ó Súilleabháin, the Adjutant General, had his office ... for Defence. Cathal was in the firm of Lalor's, Candlemakers, and carried on from his own office ...

    • ... Liffey Street from the Quays to keep an appointment with Micheál Ó coileáin for 4 p.m., in the office ... a single room spare office rented from Mr. J.J. O'Healy, North circular Road, father of Mr. Garth Healy. ten I opened the office door, I found. Micheál. Ó coileáin and Joe O'Reilly already in possession ...

    • ... by Mr. Joe McGrath. This office was located in North Frederick Street. The principal officials were ... Blaghad, Director of Trade and Commerce, had an office in Lower O'Connell Street where ...

    • ... . Head The President's Department; D. Cleary D. Ó hÉigeartaigh's Office (Clerk to the Dáil ... (Director of Boycott); H. Newson Propaganda, and so on. Theft of Cash after Treaty. The office in St ...

    • ... 19. before Mícheál took the Finance Post I had to deal. with Eoin Mac Néill (it was for a brief period only), and I found him like Arthur Griffith, very shy of going into finance matters. The National Land Bank. The founding of the National Land Bank was Robert Barton's idea, The object ...

    • ... afterwards that he almost cried from the bitter cold in his cell. None of the girls in the office ...

    • ... on the second floor, and allowed us to have the name "J. Murray, Agent", painted on the office door. Go ...

    • ... " it was incorporated as a subsidiary of the Bank of Ireland. The Head Office had some time previously been ...

  • WS Ref #: 552 , Witness: John McKenna, Member IRB, IV and IRA, Monaghan, 1918 - 1921

    • ... been censored to Ballybay Post Office, where I left them for re-inclusion for postal delivery ...

    • ... Workhouse, then a military post, and detained there with JOHN Harte and Patrick McGoldrick for two ...

  • WS Ref #: 553 , Witness: Michael P Cowley, Centre IRB, Dublin, 1908 - 1916; Assistant Manager, National City Bank

    • ... became a member, fought with Commandant Pearse in the Post Office in 1916, was deported, first ...

  • WS Ref #: 565 , Witness: Liam O'Briain, Member IRB and IV, Dublin, 1912 - 1916

    • ... a post-box address and also a sheet of paper with a Gaelic Mon it which he said was "my passport" to show ... . It is worth mentioning that he had an office in Genoa, which I visited, on the door of which ...

    • ... there, He gave me his address a post box address and also a sheet of paper with a Gaelic m on it- m ...

    • ... 2 A brother of Sean Hales and tom Hales and had been living in Italy for years He Was married to an Italian, spoke the language like a native and was doing useful Propeg and a work for us in the Italian press He Showed me one or two of his articles It is worth mentioning that he had an office ...

  • WS Ref #: 579 , Witness: Sean Byrne, Member F Company, 1 Battalion IV, Dublin, 1916

    • ... , all employees of the Engineering Branch Post Office. We were told that a special squad was being ...

  • WS Ref #: 587 , Witness: Nancy Wyse-Power, Officer, Cumann na mBan, 1914-21

    • ... as passengers were noted by the police both on departure and arrival; letters sent through the post ... on the Executive. Things had changed so much that the organisation had no regular office and Executive ...

    • ... -19- case and deposited in a sweet shop in George's St. (Gordon Stewart's) where a Cumann na mBan girl, Maire Deegan, was employed. In April I went abroad again and when I came back in June the office had been. shifted to the cáig cáigi Branch of the Gaelic League in Ely Place, where it remained ...

    • ... Street office had a long run. It was caught finally after Eileen McGrane was arrested shortly after ... noticeable than they would be in a quiet street. When they left us they got an office in Eustace ... through Min Mulcahy that they were in a desperate state for a room which could be used as an office ...

    • ... -6- being Miss Plunkett. Our office. was at 6 Harcourt Street for the first year of my office Before 1916 there were only a few branches of the organisation here and there throughout the country. Now with increasing Volunteer activity they grew like mushrooms and by 1918 their number had passed 500 ...

    • ... another courier took over as far as Arklow, from there to Gorey and so on. Meanwhile the office work ... Parnell Square. I was actually watching the arrival of the police from our office which had not yet ...

    • ... began. I had taken a post in Belfast and assisted in getting Cumann na mBan going there again ...

    • ... they went to the office in Harcourt Street and removed all papers of importance. For a day or two ...

    • ... of Sinn Fêin. Yet it was possible: for the Adjutant-General of the I.R.A. to have his office in our house ...

  • WS Ref #: 591 , Witness: Eamon Martin, Senior Officer, Fianna Eireann, 1912 - 1921

    • ... in the Post Office and. led the retreat from that area after the burning of the buildings. Commandant ...

    • ... that there was not a single fighting post in the city or country which had not its quota of the Fianna. Let me say ...

    • ... 9. to mauler Hobson's service. On the other hand, Pádraic's forte was organisation, a fact well known to the Executive. tie had the technical knowledge to direct and co-ordinate the courses for the various Departments and in fact he did this, thereby assuming the office of Chief of Staff. Besides ...

    • ... of the office as I was going in, and said something to the effect that it was "all fixed". However, I met ...

  • WS Ref #: 592 , Witness: Eamon Martin, Senior Officer, Fianna Eireann, 1912 - 1921

    • ... . Commandant Daly asked me if I could make my way to the General Post Office to report on the Magazine Fort ...

  • WS Ref #: 593 , Witness: Eamon Martin, Senior Officer, Fianna Eireann, 1912 - 1921

    • ... bulk belied his 'sickness' but we agreed that he was liable to post-operational haemorrhages, hence ... sudden he was here in the office only last Thursday". I immediately put on an act as if Oliver had been ...

    • ... conversation I learned that he was in the British Civil Service, some branch of the Foreign Office. I asked him if he had any influence with the Passport Office and he said as a matter of fact a very ...