Displaying results. 771 - 780 of 1246.
WS Ref #: 625 , Witness: Edward Handley, Sergeant British Army, 1916; (acquisition of arms for ICA)
... was built and a military post was established at Kingstown. Here the rifles were taken from the men ... to be sent to Islandbridge as we had no armourers equipment at the post. If we had a big number ...
... that they were aware of what was happening. We had an officer in charge of the post but he did ...
WS Ref #: 646 , Witness: William Christian, Member Fianna Eireann, 1911; Member IV, Dublin, 1916
... to be doing something definite instead of just lying there in bed. I decided to go back to my post ... delivered this message and got back to my post. Barring an occasional short. break for meals, I ...
... for the safety of his son, he begged me to come home with him, but having taken up my post nothing but death ...
... House they completely overlooked our post. We opened fire and men fell like ninnypins. Those who got ...
WS Ref #: 673 , Witness: Michael (Con) Fogarty, OC North Galway Brigade IRA, 1920 - 1921
... across country to Bunahow where we were met by a post car belonging to John Hardiman, Gort. Corbett and Callanan were driven in the post car to a house in Feacle. They eventually succeeded in getting ...
WS Ref #: 726 , Witness: Patrick J Kelly, Lieutenant IRA, Dublin, 1921
... the head. Lieutenant Jim Kelly and Paddy Callaghan of "G" Company took a Lewis gun on to the roof of "44" to attack the snipers post but on firing the first burst the bolt of the Lewis gun blew back ... State post and a mater of "G" Company was fatally wounded. He was Thomas Markey. He died later ...
... coy took a Lewis Gun on to the roof of 44 to attack the snipess post but sufiring the first burst ...
... , they were attacked in Mary Street from a free state post and a member of "G coy" was fatally wounded, he ...
WS Ref #: 732 , Witness: Nancy Wyse-Power, Officer, Cumann na mBan, 1914-21
... 14. After the Treaty was signed Sean T. O'Kelly decided to resign his post in Paris. He advised Mr. Chartres not to do anything rash at that time. Sean T. said Art O'Brien was remaining ... at this time for some assistance and Mr. Gavan Duffy suggested I should offer the post to Mr. Binchy ...
... a bulletin, finding an office, purchasing a typewriter and duplicator, and calling on the Berlin papers. Through Professor Pokorny I found a German office assistant who was a war widow. He got her through ...
... there appeared in the very anti Morning Post an account of a meeting held in Count Reventlow's house ...
... him as Envoy to Germany, where ha had formerly acted as American Consul-General, losing his post ...
... it. They could not provide an office and he wanted me, if I would do the work, to find a house where ...
... an office there to issue a bulletin and start publicity. The instructions he gave me were to go first ...
... of the Swiss Federation the matter leaked out through Erzberger. During the month of May the office ...
... formalised. He had an office of his own and he was bitterly anti-semitic. I remethber Mr. Binchy ...
... of the delegation arid his vanity-was hurt. After John Chartres died he had in his office where I also worked ...
... brought into the office Mr. Alexander McGuinness. The occasion of the visit was that Mr. Briscoe wanted ...
... negotiations, as the Chief Liaison Officer of the I.R.A. had his office there, Mrs. Llewellyn Davies moved ...
WS Ref #: 782 , Witness: Thomas McShea, Commandant IRA, Donegal, 1921
... that all the pre-Truce sentenced men had been released from there. There were some post- Truce I.R.A ... to treat us as ordinary criminals. This attempt was vigorously resisted by both the sentenced post ...
... person to can at an office in Bachelor's Walk. I was, however, met at the railway station in Dublin ...
... on that evening Johnston, Leonard and myself were told that we were required in the Doctor's office. On being ...
... most of it. He informed us that they were in the Doctor's (Prison Medical Officer) office which lay ...
WS Ref #: 1612 , Witness: Peter McDonnell, Officer IRA, Connemara, 1920
... 37. This is just half way between Leenane and Maam, which left us four miles from Maam Barracks. We naturally discussed our chances of attacking this post, and eventually had to admit to ourselves that owing to the position and strength of the post and our own lack of arms and equipment, no useful ...
... for the post, also that I had spent a couple of years trying to run a business and a rather extensive ...
... . coming to the Post near us and speaking to the man in charge. Immediately whistles were blown ...
... 67. local Companies into custody that day, they captured none that the police could say were active members of the Volunteers. For the previous twelve months the police did little of the usual patrol work, and that in the immediate vicinity of their post which was Maam and were therefore out ...
WS Ref #: 1618 , Witness: Michael Connolly, Vice-Commandant IRA, Kilkenny, 1921
... , only one enemy post in our battalion area. That was the barracks at Mullinavat, which was garrisoned ... McDonald, prepared plans to attack this post. I cannot give any details about the preliminary ...
... , and by the summer of 1920, only one enemy post, viz., the R.I.C. barracks at Mullinavat, remained ...
WS Ref #: 1665 , Witness: Edward (Ned) Neville, Officer IV and IRA, Cork, 1917 - 1923
... was taken to the Free State post in Macroom, with another prisoner - Pierce Owens - and lodged ... of the enemy post in about ten days. About a week later, a large scale attack was carried out on the Free ...
... . post was attacked on the night of June 9th, 1920, every available member of my company (Rusheen ...
WS Ref #: 1688 , Witness: Patrick Riordan, Member IV, Offaly and Vice-Commandant IRA, Offaly, 1918 - 1921
... or military post by a certain date. It was to circumvent this order that the general raid was carried ... shutters, barbed wire, and the approaches to it were mined. There was no barracks or post in a rural ...
... Office in Birr and removed and destroyed the Income Tax records and documents. The next incident ...