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WS Ref #: 1709 , Witness: Michael F Ryan, Brigade Engineer, Waterford, 1921
... office was in the premises of the Waterford Shipping Company on the Mall. Recruits were forthcoming ... were delivered by post to each house, special emphasis was, of course, laid on the atrocities ...
... 27. Jimmy Howlett was there, and, whilst Larry Veale, David Kenneally and I were getting as far as possible from the vicinity of the Post Office, the British military racing to the scene in lorries passed us in Broad Street; they had got early news about the raid. The three of us decided ...
... (or as they termed them the "Bantry gang") as members or supporters. Early in 1920 a sensation ...
... 13. In the spring of 1920 the tempo of Volunteer activities all over Ireland was speeded but Waterford was not affected to any great extent. In April (Easter Week-end) the Income Tax Office ... in the operations at the Income Tax Office and Callaghane R.I.C. station. I joined the Volunteers ...
... 6. displayed in the windows of all Post Offices). Needless to say, D.O.R.A. (Defence of the Realm Act) ensured that any published news was censored. A few of the local events which remain in my memory are the arrival of a gunboat, a military guard on the G.P.O. and Custom House (there were rumours ...
... accurate with these particulars. Raids on the mails and Post Offices became more frequent, "D ...
... 8. the numbers which should join from each county or district. A clock affair was erected outside the recruiting office, the former A.O.H. hall, in O'Connell Street which purported to show the numbers joining up and how far they fell short of the desired target. Just before Christmas 1917 two ships ...
... machine in his office and ran off copies of a warning notice. We pasted these up all over town and used ...
WS Ref #: 1711 , Witness: Sean F Dockery, Chief of Republican Police, Offaly, 1921
... , six armed soldiers from the camp went to Belmont Post Office to fetch some mails. On their way back ...
... , 1920, the British military authories in Athlone set up a temporary military post at the bridge in Ferbane. It was there for a few weeks, probably for he month of July. The post was usually visited each ...
... on the Customs Office in Banagher, when we removed and burned the office records. These operations ...
WS Ref #: 1718 , Witness: Michael O'Droighneain, Captain IV, Galway, 1916; OC Connemara Brigade, IRA, 1920 - 1921
... to the capture of a number of letters passing through the Galway Post Office. The letters were ...
... Kyne's command, situated near the Post Office, which is on the road leading from Spiddal to Moycullen ...
... was in the Censor's Office at Dublin Castle, or wherever they had their office. He was a Gaelic ...
... the attempt to cross over to Ireland succeeded. Then the War Office decided that we were all to be sent home ...
... 16. Reddington (R.I.P.) and Seán Seoighe (still in the Education Office in Dublin) had a sidecar ready, waiting to take the box away. We put the box up on top of the sidecar the driver sat up in the dickey, Seán Seoighe sat up on one side, and Tommy Reddington and I sat up on the other side ...
WS Ref #: 1720 , Witness: John Manning, Captain IV Donoughmore, 1916; Member Donoughmore Flying Column, 1921
... in Donoughmore where he had gone to attend a funeral. We raided the Post Office before the mails were ...
... on Carrigadrohid R.I.C. post by the men of Macroom Battalion on the night of June 9th 1920. On this occasion ...
... . Arrangements to guard the premises were made immediately, and I was instructed to post a strong ...
WS Ref #: 1730 , Witness: Peadar McMahon, IV Limerick, 1917 - 1918; Organiser IV, 1918 - 1921; Secretary Department of Defence, 1925 - 1958
... and ammunition from Micheál O'Hanraban's house to Stephen's Green. When passing the General Post Office ...
WS Ref #: 1734 , Witness: Sean Farrelly, Brigade Vice-Commandant IRA, Meath, 1921
... used his oppontunity and compiled a list of every I.R.A. man in the area. In a raid on the local Post Office in the early spring of 1921, the list tonether with a letter from him were found among ...
... 47. Around this time the Pans made it a practice to take away all bicycles found around the house of an I.R.A. man while on their raids. In retaliation the I.R.A. seized Post Office bicycles whenever possible. Those bicycles were always painted red. When seized they were generally tainted ...
... , that there was no lorry there at the moment and the one that had been there had left. He ushered me into the office for discharge. The official in the office handed me the few coppars found on me on arrival ant ...
... on the certificate under Section 8(4).) Moloney Name: (J. Moloney.) Grade: Col. Department/ Office ...
... . Department/ Office/ Court Date: 7 March 2003. ...
... on the certificate under Section 8(4).) Moloney Name: (J. Moloney.) Grade: Col. Department/ Office/ Court ...
... neat little note by Post, Purporting to be from the Tans. It informed me that I was next ...
WS Ref #: 1737 , Witness: Seamus Fitzgerald, Officer IRA, Cobh, County Cork; President East Cork District Court; Later member of Dail and Seanad
... . District Inspector's Cobh Office, advised us constantly about contemplated raids. Jack Kilty, who ... a "Death Notice" through the post, threatening me with immediate assassination if any R.I.C. man was shot ...
... and others returned home. I met him a day or two later outside the Cobh General Post Office. He ...
... and people of the day. I conducted post-mortem examinations with the late Denis Barry, 0/C Cork ...
... 29. also copy of the sworn affidavit by Dr. George F. Hegarty with respect to the post mortem examination carried out by Dr. A.E. Moore and himself on the bodies of Daniel Murphy, Daniel Crowley, Michael O'Sullivan, Thomas Dennehy, William Deasy, and Jeremiah Mullane. As may be seen from Dr ...
... of making a post mortem examination on the bodies of Daniel Murphy, Daniel Crowley, Michael ...
... due to bullets, and were the cause of death. 8. The bullets found by us in the course of the post ...
... office. He presented me to the local District Inspector of the LI.C. He asked if I were Secretary ...
WS Ref #: 1751 , Witness: Cahir Davitt, Judge, Dail Courts, 1921
... at Portobello. He tried to persuade one of his Guards to post a letter for him. The man accepted ... to the Monday fixed for the execution I happened to be alone on duty in our office when the Orderly told ...
... by Brigadier General O'Daly. Emmat Dalton had resigned his Commission to take the post of Clerk to the Senate ... a meeting of the Command Legal staff Officers and this was duly held in our office in Portobello. Although ...
... where the family business - a Solicitor's office - was carried on by himself and his brother, Rupert ... of this discussion that Hodnett and myself found ourselves in Collins's office. He told us that I was to take charge of the legal section in the Adjutant-General' Office, with Hodnett as my second in command ...
... a solicitor's clerk in some Dublin office, and was a typical Dubliner. I knew his brother, John Carrig, who ... to have him in the office. He proved to be a real discovery; loyal, able, industrious, careful, reliable, and endowed with a truly photographic memory; he quickly had a satisfactory office system ...
... . There was a man employed as a civilian clerk in the Adjutant- General's office. His name was I think ... -General's office. Suspicion ten upon The Intelligence people took charge of the matter and a trap was laid ... to the Adjutant- General's office and that would be left apparently alone in the office to receive ...
... : a private office for me, an office for Hodnett and his subordinates, and a general office in which ...
... partially destroyed by tire a short time previously, and a military post had been established ... of the post and suggested that we would ring up Portobello or Collins Barracks and. put him in touch ...
... . was charged with "Abandoning his post which it was his duty to defend", and alternatively with "leaving his post without orders from his superior officer". He had been placed in charge of a guard ...
... Adjutant-General" asking me to come at once to the Adjutant-General's Office. On my arrival there I ... me over to Collins' a office where he introduced me to him as well as to the Adjutant-General ...
... the Adjutant-General's office for w advice as to confirmation or otherwise. The proceedings were ... -General's Office, duly informed the Convening officer, 0,0.0. Kerry Command, of such confirmation ...
... which I had received from the Army Pay Office notifying me that they bad been placed upon I the pay ... that there had been some leakage of information from the Army Pay Office; and I brought the circumstance ...
... be spoilt. We went to the passport office in London where I was told there would be no difficulty about ... to the passport office only to have our hopes dashed by the official. who told me that as the passport had ...
... and elsewhere, including the Four Courts; they seized large sums of money in banks and post-offices ...
... Commission while retaining my post on a part-time basis. I was told to see Mr. Tom Gorman, the Army ...
... that it was really Hugh Kennedy who Wanted to see me, and he brought me over to Knnedy's office ...
... told Hodnett and myself that pending the provision or a proper office we would be provided at once ...
... 6. There was an outer and an inner room, originally designed no doubt to SOPYS 88 a sitting-room and bedroom. It was agreed that I was to have the inner room as my office, while Hodnett was to share the outer room with the typist, who turned out to be a very pleasant girl called Eileen Murphy. I ...
... 8. to do so, and I returned to my office to peruse the remainder of the pile of proceedings about which I can now remember nothing. I learned subsequently that no attempt had been made to carry out the sentence, Apart from any other consideration, no prison Governor would have been likely ...
... of office work, as wall as functioning train time to time as Judge-Advocates or Prosecutors at Courts ...
... General's Office. Re was subsequently transferred to the Department. of External Affairs and held ...
... cards with the others in our quarters when I was called over to the Adjutant-General's Office where ...
... 63. On Christmas Eve I was alone on duty in our office. Coyne was, I think, at the Curragh; Donovan and Casey were in hospital, one with influenza and the other with a septic throat. The others acre on Christmas leave. Late in the evening I got a message from Major-General Prout in Kilkenny telling ...
... for his client. I asked him to trait in my office while I vent to see the Adjutant-General. I had quite ...
... Algar and I returned to the passport office having in the meantime received the all important ...
... 94. Some days later I got a message that the Commander-in- Chief wanted to see me, and I duly attended at his office. It was, as I expected, in connection with the Kenmare incident. The whole matter was again discussed; I reiterated the arguments which I had used. with the Adjutant- General ...
... Bill. I eventually brought McCarthy up to my office and assigned the task to him. General ...
WS Ref #: 1763 , Witness: Daniel Breen, Quartermaster 3 Tipperary Brigade, IRA; Author 'My Fight For Irish Freedom'
... 132 State troops stationed in the village. Surprising and overpowering the garrison, which was disarmed, the Republicans proceeded to the Courthouse which was occupied by the Garda Siochana and, ordering the men out, set the Courthouse on fire. Then then entered the post office where ...
... in Tipperary and took an hour to pass a given point. Then the final prayers had been said and the Last Post ...
... barracks. This was the first major military post to be evacuated in Tipperary. Immediately after ...
... Brigade, one section of which, from Clonmel, was balleted in a Mental Hone. The situation on both sides was so acute that the leaders in Dublin Look alarm and a conference was held with a view to seeking an agreement. Liam Lynch and Oscar Traynor travelled post haste to Limerick to try and avert ...
... , communications, etc., and the taking of every possible precaution to prevent the town and the post of Carrick ...
... army and the failure of the Republicans to recapture the post. On the following Sunday Cashel ...
... old castle of Kilcash as an observation post. The castle afforded an extensive view of the valley ...
... . After the burial service had been concluded, the Last Post was sounded and three volleys discharged ...
... -120- of the military post at Carrick. The various units taking part in this attack were under the command of Comdt. -General Tom Barry, 0/C of Operations on G.H.Q. Staff. Brigadier Lacy participated in the attack and every precaution was taken to ensure success. The following account is based ...
... BURNED DOWN. BIG SEIZURES OF ARMS, AMMUNITION AND CLOTHING". The attack on Carrick military post took ...
... the assembled men, informed them that they were about to attack Carrick military post and explained ...
... the Republican columns had withdrawn from Carrick, Free State dispatch riders were sent post haste to ...
... following the capture of the post, requiring all civilians to be indoors by 9 p.m. To conclude ...
... from office and Mr. Griffith was elected President of the Republic in succession to Mr. de Valera ...
WS Ref #: 1295 , Witness: Timothy Keohane, Lieutenant IRA, Member Flying Column, Cork, 1921
... without making contact with the enemy. Early in May (I think) we moved to the west of Bantry, where we took up positions on the Kenmare-Bantry road, but there was no action as the expected enemy convoy ...
... of the following battalions: Bandon, Clonakilty, Dunmanway, Bantry, Skibbereen. The first officers ...
... 8. positions at Gaggin on December 8th. 1920. A number of men from the Bantry area, who had been late for Kilmichael, had now joined the column. They were armed with some of the rifles captured at Kilmichael All members of the column were now armed with rifles. At Gaggin the column was divided ...
... , to be dealt with by the party at the command post at the eastern end. The first lorry then drove past us and fire was opened on it by the section to the east at Tom Barry's post. We then opened fire ...
... in the middle of double bank (stonefaced). The opening was so arranged that a large stone gate-post acted ...
... a short distance about 150 the of the command post at the eastern yards ...