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WS Ref #: 1481 , Witness: Patrick O'Sullivan, Officer IRA, Skibbereen, Cork, 1921
... in Bantry Battalion area in October 1920, to train selected officers and men from Bantry and Skibbereen ...
... .). The other Battalions in this Brigade were Bandon, Clonakilty, Dunmanway, Bantry, Castletownbere ...
... Friday. At Easter 1920, Castletownsend evacuated R.I.C. post was destroyed by fire. This operation ...
WS Ref #: 1502 , Witness: William Crowley, Captain IRA, Cork, 1921
... ., Bantry, Castletownbere, Schull, Skibbereen and a new battalion, Drimoleague, which embraced portions of Dunmanway, Bantry and Skibbereen battalions. The ...
... brigade - Cork III. Other battalions in this brigade were: Bandon, Clonakilty, Dunmanway, Bantry ...
... in Schull, Bantry, Castletownbere and Skibbereen battalions attended. Tom Barry was in charge ...
... on the staff of Bantry battalion, was sent into Schull area to organise it. He established a number ...
... Free State post in Cork V. brigade area was established in Skibbereen where it occupied the R.I.C ... of the Free State post. While the I.R.A. forces were taking up positions in Market Street, fire ...
... -6- any arms or make any arrests. In the summer of 1919, Lisheen company was reorganised by the new battalion 0/c, Sam Kingston, who had replaced John B. O'Driscoll. As far as I can recollect, O'Driscoll had been removed from office by the Brigade 0/C, Tomás MacCurtain. On the reorganisation, the 0 ...
WS Ref #: 1518 , Witness: Sean O'Driscoll, Commandant IRA, Cork, 1921; Member Flying Column, 1921
... in to the Tans in Bantry and reported our presence in the area. A message was received from a member of Bantry Cumann na mBan that ...
... 15. this information had been given to the Tans. We immediately vacated the area with our prisoners and the district was raided by military from Bantry about 3 p.m. on the same evening. Arising out ... at Bantry. I gave them twenty minutes to remove any money or objects of sentimental value and then set ...
... Bantry, Castletownbere, Schull, Skibbereen, and a new battalion, Drimoleague were formed into Cork V ...
... of Bantry Battalion Staff. On my invitation he came into Schull area and we set about setting up ...
... . Wood a Protestant landlord who resided about two miles from Ballydehob on the Bantry road ...
... " on the Bantry-Schull road about 10 p.m. We were just ready to move off to our selected positions when ...
... 18. Within a few days the Schull Battalion Column, under Seán Lehane and myself we were now both back from the Brigade Column took up a posit ion at Barry's Mills on the Ballydehob-Bantry road. We were expecting a convoy of two lorries of military to pass through as they had been making occasional ...
... Sunday, 1923. I was tried by courtmartial at Bantry and sentenced to death. The carrying out ...
... ..C. post at Ballydenob was evacuated. It was destroyed within a few. days by the men from Skehanore ...
WS Ref #: 1527 , Witness: Liam O'Dwyer, Commandant IRA, Cork, 1921
... at a camp in Bantry Battalion area towards the end of September, 1920. The training was carried out ... an error in the dispatch notifying us to travel and we returned to Baurlin in Bantry Battalion area where ...
... . Brigade. The other Battalions in this Brigade were : - Bandon, Clonakilty, Dunmanway, Bantry ...
... throughout the Battalion. I was engaged wholetime on this job until I was arrested at Bantry in November ...
... the Truce. The Battalions at the western end of the area - Bantry, Castletownbere, Schull, Skibbereen ...
... 21. Kenmare where the meeting was to be held. Owing to unforeseen circumstances the meeting did not take place and on our way back home Christy and I fired several rounds at a British Destroyer, anchored in Kenmare Bay, which had attempted to shell a post held by I.R.A. forces on the previous day ...
... their post. This was the first raid on a garrison post since Easter l9l6. The threat of the British ...
... was forced to relinquish his post as principal teacher. He died 'on the run' at the early age of 27 ...
... post at Eyries Cross. The rations and supplies for the Military outpost were sent from ...
WS Ref #: 1532 , Witness: Daniel Harrington, Officer IRA, Cork, 1921
... Cork City to Bantry. When about two miles west of Ballingeary, one of the lorries, for some unknown ... with shotguns and advanced towards the? lorry nearest to Bantry. They waited ...
... , Bantry, Millstreet and Icillarney. We got the order to retreat across a hill to the back of us ...
WS Ref #: 1590 , Witness: Daniel C Kelly, Officer IRA, Cork, 1921
... STATEMENTBY DANIEL C. KELLY, 3, Townsend Street, Skibbereen, Co. Cork. I was born in Bantry on 24r4 December, 1902. My father was an oil salesman. I was educated at Bantry and Skibbereen National Schools. When the Irish Volunteers were organised in Skibbereen in the summer of 1917 I joined ...
... was set up at Kealkil in Bantry area for the officers of Skibbereen and Bantry battalions in October ...
... decided to divide Cork 111. Brigade into two Brigades. The Western Battalions Bantry, Castletownbere ...
... , the R.I.C. post at Castletownsend was destroyed by fire. This operation was carried out ...
WS Ref #: 1591 , Witness: Richard Russell, Officer IRA, Cork, 1921
... : Clonakilty, Dunmanway, Skibbereen, Bantry and Castletownbere. At a later stage, Bantry Battalion ...
... was divided into two sections. The men from the 5th (Bantry). 6th (Castletownbere) and 7th (Schull) Battalion ...
... ),, Clonakilty (Joe O'Donoghue), Dunmanway (Dan Warren), skibbereen ("Neilly" Bohane), Bantry (Patk. Connolly ...
... , it was necessary to post armed guards on all roads leading from the areas in which the seizure took place, as well ... , Kilbrittain, Ballinadee under Tom Barry, carried out an attack on Kilbrittain R.I.C. post ...
... to the close proximity of the area to Bandon a strong military post four miles away, and the large force ...
... were laid to carry out a surprise attack on Innishannon R.I.C. post. This was a battalion operation ...
... to fill the vacancy. About the same time, Jerh. Deasy was arrested and his; post as 2nd Lieutenant ...
... being censored, they were reposted at one or other of the post offices in the district. The members ...
... outpost was established at Dromkeen in Innishannon Company area. This post was so situated ...
WS Ref #: 945 , Witness: Sorcha McDermott, Officer Cumann na mBan, London, 1913 - 1916
... was taking our names and addresses. He had been a sorter in Mountpleasant Post Office, London, and he had ...
... really identify Wilson as he worked in the office as a clerk where Wilson worked. Wilson's maps ... in Spain where he spent a number of years. When O'Sullivan did not turn up at his office after lunch ... was dismissed from his office. As Reggie Dunne and ...
WS Ref #: 24 , Witness: Con Murphy, Member IV, Cork, 1916
... them. The Riordans started to send up decoded copies of telegrams to the Military from the Post Office, and then we knew the Rising had started in Dublin. Late that night MacCurtain and MacSwiney came ...
WS Ref #: 89 , Witness: Michael O'Cuill, Member IRB, Cork, 1913
... . The Post Office employees had a room there, the Fianna, which was going at this time, used ...
... the services of the Cork Volunteers to the War Office in, case of war, and he read the reply he had ... . All the A.O.H. element did not approve of offering the Volunteers to the British War Office. One ...
... -2- some others who were organising the Fianna there. Seamus Breathneach was active in Kinsa1e. I had been reading "Irish Freedom" and the idea was suggested in one issue that a number of men armed with revolvers could rush a British Military post and capture it. I suggested to Tomás that we should ...
... rumours of fighting in Tipperary. I threw down my truck, went to the time office and said I ...
... into an Office. The Officer of the Dublin Fusiliers into whose custody I first came after arrest had made some ...