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  • WS Ref #: 1110 , Witness: Peter Browne, Officer IRA, Kerry, 1917 - 1921

    • ... so that no reinforcements could come out to their aid. The patrol was due at the post office before ... Hotel (the post office was just across the street) and asked to have the job called off ... way through the cattle and horses the Volunteers slipped in beside them. When they got to the post ...

    • ... . The patrol went through the main Street daily from the barracks to the post office, a distance ... the rifles on the fair day. The plan was to have the Volunteers scattered along the route to the post office and as the patrol came through the fair they would quietly walk in beside the soldiers, each ...

    • ... in Castleisland. His sermon was on the shooting incident at the post office on that morning (he was not aware ...

    • ... military post, but not a man in British uniform passed during the week. However, in the short time ... . It was a two storey building and had been brought up to date as a fortified post. ...

    • ... the other four held up the two R.I.C. men left in the post and capture the rifles and revolvers which ...

    • ... windows awaiting the attack to open from the command post which had been established near ...

    • ... and it was an ideal observation post, giving a view of the road on the other side of the hill for a long ...

    • ... warned the Castleisland military post and, in that case, if anything did come it would not be in our ...

  • WS Ref #: 796 , Witness: Daniel Doody, Captain IRA, Limerick, 1921

    • ... - 5 - Post Office one day to draw his pension and asked as usual was there any letter for him ... in the Post Office and said it was not for him. Ryan was greatly troubled and brought ... of the Post Office in time, but eventually it was lost or destroyed. A previous letter of Daly's ...

    • ... , c/o Post Office in Newcastle West. As it happened, an ex-Army man named Ryan went into the ...

  • WS Ref #: 1622 , Witness: Michael Hilliard, Captain IV and IRA, Meath, 1917 - 1921

    • ... discovered a leakage of information as to their movements from Navan Post Office. Mr. Hodgett's corpse ... to the murder of Mr. Hodgett I was in contact with a clerk in Navan Post Office named Patrick Hughes ... his daughter installed in the Post Office as a clerk, without success. ...

    • ... 4. Hodgett would not employ her. It was thought at the time that Queenan wanted to get his daughter into the Post Office for the purpose of seeking information if possible about the I.R.A. or, alternatively, to ascertain if possible how the leakage occurred relative to police movements ...

    • ... . Department/Office/Court Date: 7 March 2003. ...

  • WS Ref #: 1741 , Witness: Michael V O'Donoghue, Engineer Cork 1 Brigade IRA, 1921; President GAA, 1952 - 1955

    • ... for posting in Lismore Post Office. O'Brien volunteered with alacrity - he was a courageous little fellow ... that to reach the post office he had to pass by the strong military post garrisoned by the "Buffs" at Goulding's corner, from which the post office was a bare 40 yards distant. On the other approach ...

    • ... p.m. - when all University activities had ceased for the day - I caned at the porter's office ... that there was. He went behind the office counter, produced my precious parcel and handed it to me ... and he brought us into the engineering private office, where I untied the parcel and exposed its ...

    • ... to a telegram copy form pasted up in the post office window. It said "Peace negotiations I concluded ...

    • ... 32l. the little Post Office. The Staters would not be along for a couple of hours yet. It was a lovely clear calm morning with the sun shining brightly. The waiting would be irritating and irksome. Then away in the distance the drone of motors was heard - it could not be the F.S. convoy so soon ...

    • ... , Dinny Galvin and myself hurried off to the local Post Office. It was occupied by two nice friendly ...

    • ... the civil war started. I posted it later in Bruckless Post Office though I had little faith ...

    • ... charged with raiding and looting a post office, To his credit, he had come along to join our column ...

    • ... in West Cork, I now replaced him in Ulster, while he reverted to my vacated post in his old home area ... trusty .45 Colt, my companion all through since the fight started, in a drawer in my engineer's office ...

    • ... (both latter U.C.C. students), Mick O'Callaghan, rail clerk at Bandon Railway Terminus in Cork, a Bantry ...

    • ... 174. Southern Division with Liam Deasy, late 0/C, Cork 111, as his Div. Adjutant. The new 0/C of Cork 111 was Seán Lehane of Durrus, Bantry, a Drumcondra trained national teacher who had gone soldiering with the I.R.A. instead of teaching. With Seán I was destined to spend several years campaigning ...

    • ... with him Mick Crowley, Brigade Engineer, Jack Fitzgerald and Mossy Donegan of Bantry. I was appointed ...

    • ... 282. owned by a relative of Jack Fitzgerald. Then on to Cork City. Next day, we were back again in Bandon with the old Cork 111 Brigade. Charlie Dais, with his Kern comrades, had gone home to Fines, Tralee; Seán Lehane to his home in Bantry; Jack Fitzgerald to Ballinapittal; Jim Lane to Clonakilty ...

    • ... the parcel presented itself. I dare not do it myself and to post it in Cappoquin would be suicidal ... hundred yards from the R.I.C. barracks. He said that he would get Bernard O'Brien to post it in Lismore ...

    • ... Drawing Office work in U.C.C. Engineering Office, when I was notified to report under arms ...

    • ... on the certificate under Section 8(4).) Moloney Name: (J. Moloney.) Grade: Col. Department/ Office/ Court ...

    • ... given on the certificate under Section 8(4).) Moloney Name: (J. Moloney.) Grade: Col. Department/Office ...

    • ... on the certificate under Section 3(4).) Moloney Name: (J. Moloney.) Grade: Col. Department/ Office/ Court: Date ...

    • ... . There was no oration. The Last Post was sounded and then a firing party of six Volunteers, with rifles ...

    • ... the "last Post" and a firing party of six I.R.A. riflemen appeared from nowhere to line the wreath ...

    • ... , Kelliher, Kennedy and myself had spent a night painting up in the exciting post-armistice election days ...

    • ... was offered a post as junior electrical engineer to Dublin Corporation, which he duly ...

    • ... a few gay days and nights before heading for home. On my first post truce night in Cork, I was amazed ...

    • ... and ordered him back to his post. He stopped the cart, answered me in an ...

    • ... 223. insolent and insubordinate fashion. His whole tanner was mutinous in the extreme. I ordered him back to his post. He went, grousing and grumbling and threatening, under duress. The engineering operations were completed and the men dismissed. Again, on his departure, this engineering officer ...

    • ... in West Cork looking for experienced officers for his Division. Mick Crowley had resigned his post ...

    • ... 234. occupied the R.I.C barracks in Ballyshannon (our only outpost in the whole of South Donegal), the R.I.C. barracks at Carndonagh in Innishowen, and the R.I.C. post at Castlefin. Faced with such a paucity of bases in his area, and with so little experienced and battle-tired material in the re ...

    • ... retired to bed in the family bedrooms, taking, of course, the precaution to post a sentry. We were ...

    • ... to our Masonic Hall post, we were fearful of being fired on from the church tower. We decided ...

    • ... guard post was a hillock in the garden behind McHugh's. From it a clear view could be had north ...

    • ... 357. watching and waiting at the crag, I strolled over to Lehane and Daly, We chatted a little as dawn came. It was cold and clammy with a weeping fog, I vent back to my post. It was still before sunrise when a deep purring noise in the distance was heard, coming from Killybegs, On the alert ...

    • ... Meshan's I had nothing whatever on me which would disclose nut identity. I passed the last I.R.A. post ...

    • ... . Bewildering changes at home in rapid confusing succession. Reservists called up by British war Office: gone ...

    • ... 27. closed down. I was sitting inside innocently, reading a nwspaper by the fire in his office on my father's return and I waited to accompany him home from his work. That night, I made certain to stay in at home and to go to bed before my father. I slept little as I could not keep my mind off ...

    • ... and hurler and a very popular figure as he officiated as Weigh-master in his office-box near to Father ...

    • ... into the engineering drawing office, where I toyed for an hour or so with some draughtsmanship. That evening's ...

    • ... coming to Brigade H.Q. from County Surveyor's Office, Cork County Council, saying that it had been ...

    • ... and ruthlessly loyal military body whose intangibility and mobility had reduced the British War Office ...

    • ... or ignored us altogether. later, our joint inspection tour finished, we adjourned to the office ...

    • ... courtmart- ial at once in the brigade office. About nine senior I.R.A. officers were present ...

    • ... was installed forthwith. At the same time, the premises next door, a solicitor's office adjoining his ...

    • ... withdrawn from his supreme command office in the Four Courts. That very day came news of Sir Henry Wilson's ...

    • ... a publicity office set up and equipped with typewriters, paper and duplicating utensils, A publicity man ...

  • WS Ref #: 4 , Witness: Diarmuid Lynch, Member Supreme Council IRB; Member 1st and 2nd Dail Eireann

    • ... came to grief at the post office. The young lad, entrusted. with the posting reached. the front office ... Casement Pamphlets -4- the respective Post Offices exactly at 6 p.m. the following Thursday - not earlier and not later. Thus, should. the contents by some mischance be discovered at any one Post ...

    • ... (outdoor service men of the post Office Engineering Staff) and Dick Mulcahy (a clerk in the GPO annex ... Dublin and Dun Laoghaire. On the investment of the Post Office the first job in which I participated ... ", summoned by Seen MacDermott. was held in the office of the Gaelic League, 25 Parnell Square early ...

    • ... of arresting Sean O'Hegarty (head of the I.R.B. in Cork Who had been dismissed. from the Post Office ...

    • ... of a smile lit ken eyes of his as I quickly turned and moved off to my post. Twenty-one years later I ... " (located in the General Sorting Office) that Wednesday and said: "Well, boys, "tis all overt we Just ... the Maynooth men) were assigned to my post (the right hand ground floor abutting O'Connell and Henry Streets ...

    • ... that rear portion of the GPO. Before resuming duty at my regular post in the Primary Sorting Office. I ... retirement to the GPO, Having been absent some hours from my regular post; as as a number of men had ...

    • ... Casement Pamphlet -2- I was fully satisfied. that eventually no injury would result from the ruse - other than the momentarilly outraged. feelings of those whose names had been thus used. Anyway, the stratagem gave the best assurance of hoodwinking the Post Office In the execution of good national ...

    • ... of Military History. 1917 Post "Easter Week" Reorganisation of the I.R.B. When the "Convict" prisoners ... existence till then of the I.R.B. as a functioning organisation. One of the post-Easter developments ...

    • ... 1917, I resumed office as D.C. up to the date of my deportation to the United States in April 1918 ... was, I believe, Michael Crowe of Dublin. Before my period. of office Cathal Brugha - who ...

    • ... to stay at this hotel overnight. In Post-Easter days this would have seemed very trivial but back ...

    • ... " (the title applied in the post. - Easter Period.) In the Autumn of 1915, those of the representatives, I.R.B ...

    • ... absenting himself from the office (12 D'Olier street) he invariably told me where I could find him during ...

    • ... and ammunition reached me by post; they remained. in my possession for "Easter Week". Soon. after my arrival ...

    • ... . Just as sean was about to leave the office on Monday morning. April 17 I showed the press proof to him ...

    • ... and. other helpers got the material ready for mailing (letter post). An All-Ireland Final at Croke Park ...

    • ... the bored. walls. At daybreak I reported to G.H.Q. the general situation in my post, and got orders ...

  • WS Ref #: 388 , Witness: Joseph Good, Member IV, London, 1914 -1916

    • ... approximately August 1920 to February 1921, an unofficial raid was carried out on a post office or a post ... officer of the Volunteers, having raided a post office, used some of the proceeds, that is to say ... mail in the Rotunda sorting office. In his personal mail was found a copy of Mitchel's Jail Journal ...

    • ... by a Post Office van which was escorted by two or more soldiers; that the van had been attacked ... , and told him to post them to an address in Cork city. During the detention of Lucas by the Volunteers ...

    • ... . The main office of the New Ireland Insurance Co. then occupied only the second floor of Kapp ... attractive. Just before going to London I had called at that office and tried to take out a policy ... was in charge of tire New Ireland Insurance Office at that time. He refused to give me such a policy, so I ...

    • ... no looking out on the street. It was hardly a dangerous post and Mick did not seem pleased. He gave ...

    • ... themselves as a military body. I was Aide-de-Camp to Michael Brennan at a post in a p1ace called ...

  • WS Ref #: 630 , Witness: James Fulham, Member Fianna Eireann, 1916; Member IRA, Dublin, 1921

    • ... or two of the party would go into the Post Office to collect the mails and would remain ... to the Post Office near a lamp standard, bout fifteen yards away, and that he would open fire on the British party if resistence was offered. Another Volunteer and myself were to enter the Post Office ...

    • ... 17. of Volunteers outside covered by the Volunteer with his "Peter-the-Painter" were to rush the British guard on the truck and disarm them. Volunteers had already ta1en up their positions as planned at the side door ready to enter the Post Office at the psychological moment when the military car ...

    • ... was there for about three days when my name was called out to report to the Camp Commandant's Office ...

  • WS Ref #: 662 , Witness: Michael F Heslin, Officer IRA,Longford, 1921

    • ... the organisation of the I.R.A. This secret service work was brought to a fine art in the Longford Post Office ... . His letter was held by me and instructions given to two of my agents in the Post Office to watch ... and words of a certain song. The name of the writer was clear and the Post Office stamp on both ...

    • ... , all of the Longford Post Office. Skeffibg ton had returned some years before from France where he ... office in the Courthouse at all times when necessary for work in connection with the Brigade. Acting ... with the Volunteers were very sympathetic and very helpful. I concentrated on the officials of the Longford Post ...

    • ... telegrams were sent in five figures cypher. Through my secret service organisation in the Post Office one ... for collecting the telegaarns. The copy of the police or military telegram was sent from the Post Office ... subject of the British Crown, I occasionally had a visitor to see me in the office to enquire as to my ...

    • ... , where MacEoin had taken over possession of the Post Office. All this time Captain Reynolds was placing ... guard with the men of my old company. The connection for the telephone was made to an ordinary post office telephone as we had not got telephones of the military type. If my nerves were not up ...

    • ... 20. of the trench and from it I attached some yards of copper wire on to the main road and em.bedded the ends over which I placed a flat stone. I came back to Longford and from the post office ... received from my agents in the Post Office in advance of the enemy. Such messages usually related ...

    • ... to me in the Courthouse, Longford, where my office was. It bore the Ballinalee post mark and I took ...

    • ... country. Having discovered from my agent in the Post Office, through a deciphered telegram, that a raid ...

    • ... Doyle, Miss K. Cooney, Miss Madden, Miss McGee and the male members of the Longford Post Office whom I ...

    • ... to me and I was asked to accept the post of Brigade Adjutant. They pointed out to me that, as I was working in Longford town the difficulties and dangers of the post at the time and the hardships ...

    • ... was guarding the entrance to the Station right up to the ticket office. My position was desperate. However, I ...

  • WS Ref #: 737 , Witness: Sean Meade, Commandant IRA, Limerick, 1921

    • ... was appointed Quartermaster. At that time the local Post Office bras in Crowley's premises, one of the family being sub-Postmaster. A Post Office Inspector informed the family that they could not retain ... the Volunteers or of giving up the Post Office. Acting on the advice of Commander N. Colivet, Limerick ...

  • WS Ref #: 563 , Witness: Michael Cremin, Member IV, Dublin, 1916; Captain IRA Dublin, 1921

    • ... Clarke's face. On that evening, I was sent to a position on the roof of the Post Office at the north-east corner facing Amiens Street. This was to be my post for the next couple of nights. The following ... that, if the British gained the Pillar and reached the top of it, they would command the roof of the Post Office. I ...

    • ... , I think, that I left the Post Office to go to Sherrard Street to collect my equipment. I saw ... this day!" To return to the Post Office, when the warning came to evacuate, we left it by the Henry Street ...

    • ... my objective unmolested, and, when I had collected my arms, I decided to return to the Post Office ... in Sherrard Street near my post at Aldborough House. As I was about to collect it, he waned me ...

    • ... employment in the Post Office at Aldborough House. Throughout that summer training continued and route ...

    • ... House (Post Office Stores) in company with Seán Heuston on Easter Sunday. On Saturday night I took my ...

    • ... in the Post Office. Up to the summer of 1918, I cannot recollect anything of importance except having ...

    • ... in various Post Offices throughout the country. Dermot O'Hegarty and I were a deputation of two from ... the oath of allegiance and, as a result, was dismissed from my post. Quite a number refused to take ...

    • ... Office. While I was earthing the wire, a Police Inspector and two policemen were standing outside ...