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  • WS Ref #: 513 , Witness: Thomas Furlong, Member IV and IRB, Kilkenny, 1916

    • ... Sergeant that I wanted possession of the Commanding Officer's office for the purpose of painting, etc. While I was in the commanding Officer's office waiting for the Sergeant to come to hand it over to me ... to hand over the office he tried to open the press, and. thinking it was locked, told me to carry ...

  • WS Ref #: 55 , Witness: Christopher O'Connell, Member IV, Eyeries, Cork, 1916; Commandant, 1921

    • ... , there was no Volunteer organisation nearer to us than Bantry on one side and Kenmare on the other ...

  • WS Ref #: 59 , Witness: Con Ahern, Captain IV, Cork, 1916

    • ... there it was then too late to take any action. We had. no contact. with the Bantry Company except ...

  • WS Ref #: 136 , Witness: Patrick Crowley, Officer IV, Cork, 1916

    • ... on their way back to Farnivane from Bantry where they had been on duty at some big Redmondite ...

  • WS Ref #: 620 , Witness: Samuel Kingston, Commandant IRA, Cork, 1921

    • ... -2- leap. I was O.C. Breadagh Company then and I took the Company to this meeting. From that meeting an important despatch was taken in by me for Michael Collins to Bantry. It was given me by Gearoid O'Sullivan. During the period April, 1918, to March, 1919, I was still O.C. Breadagh Company ...

    • ... of Knocking out the I.R.A. in West Cork. The enemy troops in Skibbereen and Bantry did not seem ...

  • WS Ref #: 799 , Witness: Liam S Gogan, Member IV Executive, 1916

    • ... the movement just before the Rising andbehaving asif he was the G.O.C., I agree that nosuch office ... put a stopto this initial anddangerous hysteria that I volunteered totakethe post which I helptill ...

  • WS Ref #: 68 , Witness: Michael J Feeley, Member RIC, Cork, 1920 (murder of Thomas McCurtain 19/3/1920)

    • ... . Before the County Inspector left the office he told me that during the Course of the afternoon that I ... from the Competent Military Authority The despatch was brought up to the office by the Barrack orderly ...

    • ... time and the Ludges were staying somewhere around Tivoli I waited some time for the Head Constable to return but as he had not done so I asked for the District Inspector Clerk in order to get the keys of the District Inspectors office. When I got the keys I went to the office got my despatch ...

  • WS Ref #: 622 , Witness:   Dublin Board of Assistance,  

    • ... , having finished the work of the office, and saw everything belonging thereto put safely in its proper place, he locked up the office for the Easter holidays. In the ordinary course of business he should have returned on Tuesday, the 25th April, 1916, and opened the office for the conduct of the Union ...

    • ... -2- having done so, on Monday the 8th May, directed the Clerk to get them in order, and notify him when he had done so. Having directed the Clerk of Works to have the opening between his office and the District Council Office closed up, and generally to repair the damage done to the office, first ...

    • ... the Dublin Public Assistance District from the commencementof Regis-tration are housed in the office ...

  • WS Ref #: 870 , Witness: Charles Shelly, Member IV and IRA, Dublin, 1915 - 1921

    • ... in Augustine Street at the time, I decided to go to the nearest post. I met a Volunteer at the Church Street post, told him my position and he directed me to go to Headquarters at Convent in North Brunswick ...

    • ... -4- the prone position on the bridge, and Eamon Martin was ordered to go and see if the gates into the main office were locked. While he was testing the gates, which he found to be locked, no move of any kind was made, but as he was returning a shot rang out and he was hit. He was brought ...

  • WS Ref #: 971 , Witness: George F.H Berkeley, Officer IV, 1914

    • ... "will, I believe, smash the Army into pieces, because it will divide the Army." (Morning Post, July ... , and the Morning Post declared "war to the knife." Mr. F.E. Smith informed us that: "We have pledges ...

    • ... "will, I believe, smash the Army into pieces, because it will divide the Army". (Morning Post, July ... , and the Morning Post declared "war to the knife". Mr. F.E. Smith informed us that: "We have pledges ...

    • ... arrival from the office was greeted with a shoest "Any new telegrams?". We had cause for excitement ... one o'clock that evening and then I went round, half-asleep, with Mr. Dunn of the Daily Mail office ...

    • ... which might alter the fate of Europe. Each fresh arrival from the office was greeted with a shout: "Any ... -asleep, with Mr. Dunn of the Daily Mail office where we were told that "they knew all about ...

    • ... in that town. I told him at once that I had not enough experience of soldiering for so important a post, but he ...

    • ... mentioned) and Edward Dunn of the Daily Mail. The Morning Post representative was then avowedly in hopes ...

    • ... not enough experience of soldiering for so important a post, but he answered that he was sure that I had ...

    • ... 28. and friendly conversation were Mr. Campbell (alred3r mentioned) and Edward Dunn of the Daily Mail. The Morning Post representa- tive was then avowedly in hopes of starting people shooting each other. He was on friendly terms with Crozier (O.C. of the Orangemen's machine-guns). Behind all ...

    • ... CHAPTER VII. The Army and the situation: COUNT and Brig. General Crozier My day, as may be imagined, was extremely full; in fact I was pretty well overworked. In the morning I was always at the office with Burns or some other of our people, attending to all the business of four battalions ...

    • ... full; in fact I was pretty well overworked. In the morning I was always at the office with Burns ...