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  • WS Ref #: 638 , Witness: Patrick Caldwell, Member IV, Dublin, 1916

    • ... posting the parcels to the various accommodation addresses it was usual for me to divide them and post only a few in each Post Office The stationery for the Adjutant-General's Department was printed at 10 ...

    • ... to be carried by two men than by three. Volunteer Carmichael and Friel carried Furlong back to the Post Office while M.W. O'Reilly and myself followed them. When we got back to the Post Office we found ...

    • ... and the instructors were Andy Fitzpatrick and Seán Ó Broin. This latter is now in the Post Office Service ... called Eastham in Cheshire, one Sunday, Stephen Lannigan, late of the Revenue, Commissioners' Office ...

    • ... , the time he left for his office, the time he returned, the registration number of his motor car and where he parked it and the location of his office in the a Boradstone Station. I obtained similar ...

    • ... leave a military office in John's Road frequently and that its occupants were obviously plain-clothes ... , however, he called me into his office and said, "That car number you gave me now transpires ...

    • ... O'Sullivan who was then Adjutant-General and had an office at Ormond Quay. The latter put me ... revolver there then not actually required. I now began working in the office at the back of that shop ...

    • ... visited Frank Barrett, O.C. West Clare Brigade. He had an office in the family hotel in Ennis. I ...

    • ... 21. entering it. I reported to the office in Crowe Street every morning and evening and soon found myself meeting other members there who were engaged on similar work. He explained to me what the Intelligence work consisted of and gave me a rough idea of what my duties were likely to be. From ...

    • ... at the office. Shortly after my release Liam Tobin instructed me one morning to go to Kirwan's public house ...

  • WS Ref #: 281 , Witness: Bernard Golden, Clerk in British Civil Service, Dublin Castle, 1920 -1921

    • ... officers in Dublin Castle, in the Service. I entered the office one day while a discussion was in progress ... at Belfast, one at Cobh and one at Bantry. I got the idea at the time that this proposal was to be put ...

  • WS Ref #: 898 , Witness: Sean Brunswick, Lieutenant IRA, Dublin, 1921

    • ... period until Capt. Clancy made arrangements. to collect them. Attempted raid on. Amiens St.. Post Office ... was in progress,, and went from there to Killarney St. and down to an archway facing the Post Office. Two men were detailed to hold up the bit office. I. was to enter after them and hold up. the. sentry who ...

    • ... machinery unless they complied with certain instructions.. ordered to holdt up the sub-editort's office and remain there aften Capt. Clancy had been rfused his demands. I was in the office about 40 minutes ...

  • WS Ref #: 408 , Witness: Thomas Barrett, Reporter Connaught Tribune, Galway County Council Resolution, 1921

    • ... post office staff Galway, who I think was an I.O. may the Black and Tan period and later an office ...

    • ... you in Galway City is Joe Toher, Post Office Staff, Galway, who, I think was an I.O. during the Black ...

  • WS Ref #: 91 , Witness: J.J. Walsh, Member, IV Cork, 1916; Member, Dail Eireann, 1918-27; Member, Free State Government, 1922-27

    • ... as Bandon, Dunmanway, Skibbereen, Bantry and Clonakilty. At Bantry there was the unique spectacle ... War Office. Then came Redmond's speech at Woodenbridge. It was imperative that we take a firm stand ...

  • WS Ref #: 822 , Witness: William James Stapleton, Member IV, Dublin, 1913 - 1919; Lieutenant IRA, Dublin, 1921; Member 'The Squad', 1921

    • ... , with which I was armed for the first time in the raid on the Rotunda Rink post office. Raids on mails ... mails was carried on by the post office officials, very few of whom had any idea that the place ...

    • ... on the Rotunda Rink Post Office for Castle mails but of a less formal and pretentious character than ...

    • ... there. This recommendation was turned down by the War Department or the Home Office. The refusal preyed ...

    • ... 8. name was McGrath. I went back to my post and remained there until Sunday morning. When we brought the wounded McGrath into the building there was considerable distress evident among the small party of girls from Cumann na mBan who were in charge of cooking and attached to the First Aid Station ...

  • WS Ref #: 1307 , Witness: Geoffrey Ibberson, Lieutenant British Army, Mayo, 1921

    • ... Lieutenants Smith and Craig mustered the troops I hurried to the Ballinrobe Post Office where information ... had come over the telephone from the Post Office at Tourmakeady. The wires, therefore, had not been ...

  • WS Ref #: 154 , Witness: Nora Dore, nee Daly; Member Cumann na mBan, 1916

    • ... and with my sister nave who was asked to go to limerick we left the general post office under the guidance ... post office to report the success of the first part of our journey. Mouths later we were to learn he ...

    • ... to try end with my sister who was asked to go to Limerick we left the General Post Office under ... to the General Post Office to report the Success of the first part of our journey Months later we were ...

  • WS Ref #: 397 , Witness: Thomas Pugh, Member IV, Dublin,1916

    • ... -2- A few years before the Rising I was in the Engineering Department of the Post Office over Manfields in O'Connell Street, which was held in 1916 by Oscar Traynor and others. Through my work there I got to know Dick Mulcahy, who was in the Engineering Department of the Post Office in Aldborough ...

    • ... . There was an old private, who in civil life was a Supt. of Police in Manchester, in charge of the post office. The parcels came into the post office where we sorted them, and as each man came infer his ...

    • ... the G-men that I was working in the Engineering Department of the Post Office I thought. they were ...

    • ... delegated to the poet office, as well as Mick ...

  • WS Ref #: 488 , Witness: John (Jack) Plunkett, Brother of Joseph Plunkett, executed 1916; Lieutenant IV, Dublin, 1916; Member GHQ Engineering Staff, IV and IRA

    • ... automatic pistol a few times to attract the attention of those in the Post Office. Seóirse heard ... very few of the people in the Post. Office. ...

    • ... as IS months beforehand. It is possible that Joe told me in the Post Office. I think his visit ...

    • ... the Post office to go and see how the fighting was progressing elsewhere. The Chief of Staff would ...

    • ... by Joe in Germany, in the archives of the German Foreign Office in Berlin to be sent to him in Dublin ...