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WS Ref #: 1592 , Witness: Edward Seery, Captain IRA, Westmeath, 1921
... by the Post Office to the local Postmen. In November, 1920, John Keegan of the Castletown Company ...
... for ticking up information in that way. The Post Offices in the area were of no value as they did ...
WS Ref #: 1594 , Witness: Thomas Kiernan, Captain IRA, Westmeath, 1921
... . or Tans within the garrison in Castlepollard and the Post Office there was manned by an ex-R.I.C ...
WS Ref #: 1603 , Witness: Michael J Crowley, Officer IRA, Cork, 1921
... 7. technical assistance of post office linesmen from, I think, Bandon, to the best of my recollection. Some messages between the R.I.C. barracks were intercepted, but the quickening tempo of operations in the area made it difficult effectively to operate without detection. In July or August 1920 ...
... , every enemy post in Cork III Brigade area was attacked. I will confine myself to the attack ... Arms, the H.Q. post of the Auxiliaries, where we were bound to get targets. The party comprised ...
... -post in West Cork could be held powerless by what their leaders were describing as a handful ...
... occupied the centre position on the roadway with the command post on my right and sections protecting both ...
... 24. fire on him and he fell back behind the high fence over which he was peering. After emptying the pan and our rifle magazines, the car was turned on the roadway as it would have been suicidal to attempt to reach the auxiliary post, which would mean being open to flanking fire from the barracks ...
WS Ref #: 1604 , Witness: Albert George Fletcher Desborough, Lewis Gun Instructor, British Army , Dublin, 1916
... have seen it in print on more than one occas-ion, that, the first round which penetrated the Post Office, was fired from a boat on the Liffey. No such thing. That fired from the river, was the shell ...
... 1916. 9 I will, at this point digress, if I may, to give a slight pen pic-ture of the city at this date. 'On the Thursday morning I wandered round the corner by Parnell's Monument, to get a glimpse of the Post Office from which at times spasmodic rifle fire emanated. Opposite the building one ...
WS Ref #: 1605 , Witness: Eugene Nevin, Chaplain to Marrowbone Lane Post, Easter 1916
... . That was the day of the Ceneral Post Office surrender when, of course, the proposed meeting did not, as It could ...
... the nearest post three messages, hard to decipher now after the lapse of forty years, scribbled ...
... 33. though ending in apparent defeat and disaster, was clearly a pointer and an assurance that "Freedom's battle once begun, Bequeathed by bleeding sire to son Though baffled oft, is ever won." We were outside the area of the fighting; nearest post occupied by Captain Seamus Murphy, 4th Battalion ...
... admirably into the post in any European Army and be typical of the rank he held. Middle aged, I ...
... we can imagine. When, therefore, he presented himself at the military post held by English Tommies ...
... War Office in its fight against Germany is surely the strongest condemnation of that age: its ...
... was a great man for whom I had strong affection and had many talks with him in his "Nationality" office ...
... War Office had disastrous effects in Cork as elsewhere, Of the 2,000 men who were present ...
... to the showing of a quiet sympathy with the Movement, such as visiting "The Volunteer" Office in Dawson ...
WS Ref #: 1606 , Witness: Patrick Hegarty, Officer IRA, Sligo, Mayo, 1921
... , by Humbert's Monument and the Post Office and halted in the old Market Place in Garden St. About ...
WS Ref #: 1610 , Witness: Michael McCoy, Captain IV and IRA, Westmeath, 1917 - 1921
... , the post office staff had. organised a dance in the County Hall. About a dozen ...
... the post office authorities reported the loss of £300 cash in the raid. An enquiry was ordered by G.H.Q ...
... " offices one night. This place had formerly been a newspaper office, the "Midland Reporter" being ... had taken from the County Council office. One of our men secured a bunch of keys there and one ...
... 23. office to sign a document there. We had. orders from our O/C to sign nothing. The first prisoner, a fairly rough type, on being taken into the office, when told by the Governor to sign a document placed before him, said. he would kick the table from under him (the Governor) first. We were ...
... 24. Early in May, 1920, in company with David Burke, Harry Killeavy, Barney Reilly and Thomas Lennon I raided the County Secretary's office in Mullingar and collected all the rate books ... the company and took control of the station, including the telegraph office, allowing no person to leave ...
... to a soldier with whom he was friendly, to post. The soldier handed it to his C.0., who ordered a thorough ...
WS Ref #: 1611 , Witness: Martin Conneely, Officer West Connemara Brigade, IRA, 1920 -1921
... was also smashed. On arrival at Maam Post Office, he sent a ...
WS Ref #: 1614 , Witness: Timothy Hennessy, Officer IRA, Kilkenny, 1921
... -14- Major Bruce achieved notoriety whilst in Woodstock. Amongst his misdeeds were the robbery of cash and goods from Kells (Co. Kilkenny) creamery and he and a party of Auxiliaries seized the mails in Kilkenny Post Office, brought them to Woodstock, and took possession of the money which ...
... , was at the meeting and, on his return, he told me about the election. He too had been proposed for the post ...
WS Ref #: 1623 , Witness: Luke Bradley, Vice-Commandant IRA, Meath, 1921
... the letters, I hung the mail bag with the letters on the door of the Post Office at Fordstown. When I ...