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WS Ref #: 1632 , Witness: Michael McHugh, Comandant IRA, Mayo, 1921
... that the Rising was to take place. During the week there were no trains to the West and no post office messages. We had to depend solely on rumour of which there were many. Our company assembled ...
... 9. this ambush the Volunteers had to move into other areas, as the British sent large forces of military, R.I.C. and Black and Tans which made an intense scouring of the whole district in the vicinity of where the ambush took place. For intelligence purposes, the post offices were a great source ...
WS Ref #: 1639 , Witness: Laurence Morrough Neville, Captain IRA, Cork, 1921
... enemy forces. In addition, raids on Post Office wails ware to be undertaken, with a view to capturing ...
... . These will be the reasons given on the certificate under Section 8(4).) Name: (J. Moloney.) Grade: Col. Department Office ...
WS Ref #: 1640 , Witness: James Doyle, Officer IRA, Cork, 1921
... of the post office, about 30 yards from the barrack. The mine-laying party led by Tom Barry took the mine ...
... (1st), Clonaki1ty (2nd), Dunmanway (3rd), Smibbereen (4), Bantry (5th) and Castletownbere (6th ...
... this post when the main body had opened the attack on the curfew patrol. When the shooting broke out in the centre of the town our section opened fire on the enemy post The garrison replied with heavy ...
... the enemy post so that I could prevent any of the other occupants leaving when they heard the attack ...
... next day by his relatives. He was buried within 40O yards of this enemy post with full military ...
WS Ref #: 1647 , Witness: John J O'Brien, Vice-Commandant IRA, Limerick, 1921
... . Some of our men had captured a post office worker who had climbers for getting up telegraph poles ...
... O'sullivan of Grantstown, Tipperary, and some others were in attendance at a first-aid post, in Burke's ...
WS Ref #: 1659 , Witness: Peter O'Connell, Adjutant IRA, Meath, 1921
... that the postmistress at Crossakiel had notified the post office at Kells that he had not arrived, with the result ...
... a young man named Jack Tuite, a post office clerk at Kells, which he had intercepted. They were directed ...
... we were met by Tommy Harpur of the Oldcastle Company. He informed us that he had cut barbed wire which surrounded the office and had opened a door leading from the street into the back yard ... and showed us his office. He wished us luck and went back to bed. We collected all documents ...
... Section 8(4).) Moloney Name: (J. Moloney.) Grade: Col. Department/Office/Court: Date: 7 March 2003. ...
... reaching Oldcastle from a military post at Crossdrum situated about a mile from the town. A fortnight ...
... Cogan. Our objective was to raid the income tax office in the town. At the graveyard ...
WS Ref #: 1679 , Witness: Mortimer Curtin, Officer IRA, Cork, 1921
... to Grenagh Post Office. On the evening of July 10th 1920, I collected eight members of the Grenagh Company ...
... for the destruction of all such evacuated enemy posts was issued by G.H.Q. As there was no evacuated post in our ...
WS Ref #: 1685 , Witness: Michael McMahon, Vice-Commandant West Clare Brigade, IRA, 1921
... at Kilrush and Kilkee railway stations who had access to the railway office and they inspected ... Adjutant following arrest of Seamus Lorigan who had held that post. Sean Flanagan, Battalion ...
... . Firing continued to be exchanged at the military post and at Marines in the coastguard station ... . Brigade Commandant Sean Liddy was in charge of covering party on the military post (Workhouse ... there familiar with position and in charge of our own men at that post. Battalion or company ...
... was sent to each member by post, instructing that a meeting would be held at the Courthouse, Ennis ...
WS Ref #: 1692 , Witness: John Feehan, Quartermaster, 4 Western Division, 1921
... 82. Clifden road. As far as I can remember, the round-up started on the 30th June. Here I must explain a difficult situation which had arisen. We had sent a full report to G.H.Q. re the fight at Pádraig Ó Máille's and how a car had come along and drove one of the Tans to Maam Post Office, where he ...
... 80. With the Auxies was an R.I.C. man named Greene. He was friendly disposed towards us and had been stationed some years previously in a protection post at Bundorragha. He and another R.I.C. man who had been stationed in the locality were picked up in Limerick and brought by the Tans to act ...
... , we spotted the same C.I.D. man looking at us from the office window in the restaurant ...
... at 9 O'clock and we were told to dress. We were taken along to the Adjutant's office, asked again ...
WS Ref #: 1694 , Witness: Francis Healy, Officer IRA, Cork, 1921
... the freedom movement was then known by, was reading a poster displayed outside Shanballymore post office ...
... . as I entered the railway station in company with the post office official (who was not a member ...
... in a different direction from the village. For some reason not known to me, the post office official ...
... and D. Sheehan) in District Superintendent's office, G.S. Railway, Cork City, and explained to them ...
WS Ref #: 1701 , Witness: Maurice A McGrath, Adjutant IRA, Tipperary, 1921
... is possible was kept to prevent people leaving, and those entering were held under guard. The post office was taken over, and the column instructor and trainer, Chris. Conway, was put in charge there. He ...
... company. The 0/C, P. Stokes, kept a very careful eye on that post and reported constant military ... two days for the signal, and had moved within a distance of three hundred yards of the post when ...
... , and held that post until the column was disbanded. The Cork-Dublin main road from Cahir to Mitchelstown ...
... 20. such volley upon volley of concentrated fire that it was nothing short of a miracle how any of us escaped. This post was often strongly reinforced by military passing through from Clonmel to Fermoy and Kilworth Camp. Subsequently I will tell the story of the Kiltankin round-up, where the column ...
... of the police of Kilmanahan Barracks were again moving out some distance from their post, hoped. to surprise ...
... to hold the post until my return with orders. I reported to seán and was about to return when I heard ...