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WS Ref #: 398 , Witness: Bridget Martin, nee Foley; Member Cumann na mBan, Dublin, 1913 - 1921; Courier to Cork, Easter 1916
... from England and joined me in the business, thought it advisable to take another office ... was an ex-R.I.C. man. Our own office was also raided and soon after that the Dail. Éireann people left ... it was gone. During the Black and Tan period the office was raided dozens of times and our machines ...
... and then took my dispatch to Sean McDermott at our office in Reis’ Chambers. He told me to keep in readiness: “I might want you again”. That evening he and Eamon Ceannt came in to the back office ...
... . The next morning when I went to the office I found the Auxiliaries there waiting for me. They asked ... at the other side of the road with my brother, Risteard, watching the raid on the office ...
... . At Mick’s suggestion, Reynolds was encouraged to visit our office and eventually I invited him to our house ... and a meeting was arranged in the office in 15 College Green. Reynolds turned up expecting to meet Mick ...
... of Military History. We were constantly called upon in the office to help the Volunteers in any way ... of typewriters that were broken up during a Black and Tan raid on the office and were allowed half ...
... Breen. That was probably early in 1916. At that time we had a typing office in O’Connell Street ...
... activity in our back office which was at the disposal of Sean McDermott and Ceannt at all times ...
... lead from the Freeman’s Journal Office. I can still see the vision of the big sides of beef going ...
... we were going to do with our house - our business was already gone. I suggested that she should open an office where we first had one, in 25 Bachelor’s Walk. I drafted a circular for her and from memory made out a list of our former customers and gave her, also from memory, the figures of the sums ...
WS Ref #: 414 , Witness: Eithne Lawless, Secretary to Michael Collins, 1918 - 1920
... 6. Mick Collins was in his own office upstairs and Diarmuid O'h-Eigeartaigh on hearing the raiders ... transferred the bulk of the work to No. 5 Mespil Road, where he already had an office. Miss Mason went ... hours. One evening about 6, when we were preparing to leave the office Mick had come in about 5 ...
... . At that time Harry Boland was in charge of the office. At least I understood that I was to go and work for him. Some time after that Paidin O'Keeffe took charge of the office; whether Harry Boland had ...
... evening at about the same time, when there was no one in the office except myself who had remained ... placed the British near the house at the same hour as Mick had been in the office the day before ...
... . About Cowry Sinc weeks after this raid, on 9th December 1919 Sinc we arrived at the office to find ... papers in the office I took anything which would give clues of addresses in the country, and all ...
... 2. I remember Mick Collins, Diarmuid O'h-Eigeartaigh Fintan Murphy, Bob Conlon, the office messenger; Joe O'Reilly was constantly there, having to convoy confidential dispatches to and from Mick Collins. He was attached personally to him. While we were in No. 6 the police and military made a raid ...
... of the correspondence that reached us was not addressed to the office. It was addressed to private addressee ...
... not see him again. One day we got word that the office in Camden Street was to be raided end we ...
WS Ref #: 429 , Witness: Thomas Flynn, Captain IRA, Belfast, 1921; Member Brigade ASU, Belfast, 1921
... of the Income Tax offices, Queen's Square, Belfast. We had Volunteers working in this office, and after office hours, through these Volunteers, we were able to gain admission. We ovcrpowered ... that he was not suffocated or burned. All the papers and documents in the office were collected in trays ...
... into the prison Governor's office, which had a heavy gate at its entrance and could only be opened ...
WS Ref #: 524 , Witness: Sean Kavanagh, Organiser Sinn Fein, South Kilkenny, 1917; Officer IRA, Dublin, 1921
... . About a week later I was called to the Governor's office and there found the gentleman who had last ... him. Afterwards Fovargue told me that he also had been called to the Governor's office to meet ... . On another occasion, a few days later, I was again called to the office, this time for a chat ...
... Collins got me to raid the Dublin-Cork mail train frequently for Dublin Castle post. The sorting staff ...
... usually did alternately whenever both were on duty together. I induced Roper to go out to post a few ...
... 3. Inspectors. It is interesting to note that when Terence MacSwiney was arrested he had in his possession the newly issued cypher, which had not yet reached the County Inspector in Cork. I had procured it from the Naas office. This caused a bit of a scare, and the authorities immediately changed ...
WS Ref #: 685 , Witness: Claire Hobson, nee Gregan; Wife of Bulmer Hobson; Courier to Kilkenny, 1916
... in the Volunteer Office. I was working as a typist for Bulmer Hobson for about six months before the Rising. I ... of Parliament ever came to that office which was also in Dawson Street. Colonel Moore used ... to at Christmas and Easter. It was at the Volunteer Aid Office I met Bulmer. He called in one day on some ...
... 2. Lady Fingal and De Montmorency and dozens of people like that. The Irish Volunteer Aid office closed. I think their work was finished and it was then Bulmer asked me to go over to the Republican Volunteer office at No. 2 Dawson Street. My office was in the third floor of the house at the front ...
... of excitement at the office on Good Friday morning of going through papers and destroying them, things that had ... I certainly did not see him. There was, of course, no ordinary office routine and I may have gone ...
... the fact that I went to the station from the office it was probably either late in the morning or early ...
... not get the dispensation I would get married in a Registry Office. My own Parish Priest, Fr. Ridgway ...
WS Ref #: 775 , Witness: Patrick Crowe, Member IRA, Kerry, 1921; Communications & Intelligence, Glanmire Railway Station
... watched. He had no contact with trains and met us. He had a secret plank in an office which he emptied ... at 5 p.m. I was at the Platform on No. 6 when one of the lads from the office rushed over and said ... platform where I had been. I saw little hope now, but, on entering the parcel office, I saw Wallis's ...
... replaced me in the parcel office on a Monday night. He was taken to the tunnel, shot in the heart ... solo and at night in an office, not knowing when the call would come to the door. Yet the transport ...
... Office. ...
... at the Railway District Superintendent's office for the movement by way of extra carriages and a van ...
... ., and these were not so easy to handle. Stripped of labels they were put into the Lost Property Office without ...
... and not kept in the parcel office, so as to throw off all suspicion. This generally happened ...
... on the parcels office and the Auxies were dumbfounded to find the case gone. Healy gave a "description ...
WS Ref #: 1584 , Witness: Patrick A ("Pa") Murray, Commandant IRA, Cork, 1921; OC Cork City ASU, 1921
... . There was a special office in the city then dealing with intelligence arid communications. This office ... , as only two or three selected couriers were allowed to know where the office was, for fear of anyone being ...
... -11- 0/C Tomás MacCurtain. Vice 0/C I think this post was carried only by Terry MacSwiney, also 0/C, 1st Battalion. Adjutant Florrie O'Donoghue. Quartermaster Seán Murphy. During the year 1919, the Volunteers were mainly engaged on parades, training and procuring arms. I accompanied Terence ...
WS Ref #: 1138 , Witness: Gilbert Morrissey, Officer IV and IRA, Galway, 1913 -1921
... -9- each post: Athenry Cavalry Regiment (eighty) and, R.I.C. barracks thirty Constables under the command of a District Inspector, Head Constable and two Sergeants. Craughwell R.I.C. Barracks thirty Constables under a Head Constable and one Sergeant. Bookeen R.I.C. Barracks thirteen Constables ...
WS Ref #: 1531 , Witness: Michael Smyth, Captain IRA, Kildare, 1921
... 14. the enemy engaged in that district. Raids on mails and Post Offices, and also raids for the destruction of Belfast and British goods were carried out. At Battalion Council meeting on 3rd July, it was decided to form a second Active Service Unit and on my way to meeting of same I was arrested ...
WS Ref #: 1721 , Witness: Seumas Robinson, Officer IV, Dublin, 1916; Senior Officer IV and IRA, Tipperary, 1917 - 1921
... things about this post linefighting with us was the fact that we managed not only to establish ...
... 18, Highfield Road, Rathgar, Dublin. 25.4.'52. Dear Seán In re mine of 22nd and 23rd instant:- P.P.S. This post-post-script is like what the children call "a folly-up" in an Alice in Wonderland film: Curiouser and curiouser = two photostat communications purporting to to come from Maurice Crowe ...
... and post Truce visits. I met Liam 2 or 3 times there - and only there - though I was not like Dan Breen ...
... worked. True, the War Office had had two years experience of the Glasgow "desperados", and I am informed that the War Office sent word not to interfere with us. Not one of us, then or ever after ...
... . This meeting which was in the street instead of in an office was the first indication we had ... welcome in any H.Q. office, ...
... at once. Seán Treacy remained near his post until I went in thro' the gate. He was jubilant ...
... : "As H.Q. has forbidden me to post up this ...
... the pre-Truce and the post-Truce visits. I am afraid I could not agree that the basis on which you ...
... post. With regard to those notes, I think the matter to which you mostly objected was something I ...
... 48. escaped these ambushes we two were to see to it that he didn't get past us alive. We were to keep moving as if we were innocent civilians and yet we were to stay at our post! We were told that French was coming on the early mail boat to Dún Laoghaire, that he'd be driven by convoy to the Castle ...