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WS Ref #: 853 , Witness: Peadar Barry, Officer IRA, County Down, 1921
... to a position on the roadway close to the castle entrance gate. Our duty at this post was to prevent surprise ...
... 5. observation that the police had no settled routine route for their patrol. They changed their routes through the town almost each night. This fact forced us on the night planned for the operation to post men at various points to ensure that no matter what particular streets they traversed some ...
WS Ref #: 858 , Witness: Seamus Finn, Officer IRA, Meath, 1921
... it a formidable enemy post. In 1920 too the Trim area held a strong Volunteer Battalion, an I.R.A. unit which ...
WS Ref #: 901 , Witness: Seamus Finn, Officer IRA, Meath, 1921
... Lynam, 0/C 1st Battalion, was relieved of his post and replaced by Commandant B. Dunne, while P. de ...
... miles from Navan. There was some cover in front and rear, and it was planned to post shot guns ...
... at the appointed place and Mooney detailed each man's duty and post to him. Before they reached Ballivor ...
WS Ref #: 905 , Witness: Jim Hunt, Commandant IRA, Sligo, 1921
... in from his post of observation with the report that 5 armed police were approaching on cycles ...
WS Ref #: 931 , Witness: Michael Grace, Close associate of Arthur Griffith, 1899 - 1902
... was published monthly and sold for one penny or one and sixpence per year by post in Ireland. We had a small ...
WS Ref #: 934 , Witness: Mary McLoughlin, Member Clan na nGael, 1916
... that no trains were running as the Rising had broken out. So we decided to walk. The first military post we ...
WS Ref #: 938 , Witness: Daniel Mulvihill, Officer IRA, Kerry, 1921
... chauffeur. We arrived into Callan about 5 a.m. This was the first I.B.A. post we met and we had ...
... on mails, post offices, railway stations, Belfast boycott. Our Battalion started in the Spring of 1920 ...
WS Ref #: 950 , Witness: David O'Callaghan, Member IV, Castletownroche, Cork, 1916; Lieutenant IRA, Cork, 1921
... 11. The operation had, however, to be called off owing to the accidental discharge of a shot by a member of one of the sections taking up a position in the vicinity of the R.I.C. post before the other sections were in position. This attack was planned to take place at 3 am. Approximately 200 men ...
... was in charge. I served at this post until it was evacuated in March 1922, when I was transferred ...
WS Ref #: 951 , Witness: Robert Knightly, Officer IRA, Kerry, 1921
... post between Tralee and Dingle. In the early stages there was a garrison at the Coastguard Station ...
WS Ref #: 955 , Witness: Patrick Mullooly, Senior Officer IRA, Roscommon, 1921
... of the drum and so it came to our knowledge that the R.I.C. stationed at Gillstown, a country post about ...
... in offering them to the English War Office and as he was acting as a recruiting - agent ...