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WS Ref #: 1495 , Witness: Martin Walsh, Commandant, IRA Wexford, 1921
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... bring reinforcements from Wexford, while our active service unit would. ambush them on the way ... to take up positions, the active service unit making tracks for their' posts at the same time. A few ...
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... Lee Enfield and its number was 250732. Soon afterwards it was decided to form a Battalion Active Service Unit as there were a number of the lads 'on the run' in the. area. I myself had not slept ...
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... fought in the Boer War and had service in India. At the outbreak of World war 1 many young Irishmen ...
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WS Ref #: 1504 , Witness: Seumas O'Meara, OC Athlone Brigade, IRA, 1921
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... to raise funds for this purpose. Just at this time n order was received from G.H.Q. to organise active service units in all brigade areas, so we were in a position to start organising such a unit ... service unit, or flying column. Seamus Tormey was appointed 0/C. of the column. I told Tormey I ...
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... 48. area. Almost immediately afterwards, G.H.Q. sent down Gerald Davis now Dr. Davis in the army as an active service officer, to take charge of the operations in the brigade. He continued my policy of trying to get Captain Tully, but enlarged it to include any R.I.C. man in the town. Davis ...
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... any active part in an open rebellion or anything of that nature. It was decided to let this old circle carry on and it was also decided to organise a new circle of young active men. Joe Carr, Larry ...
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... to be shot, but preference went to Captain Tully. Our intelligence service in the area never reached ... . may have had, as Collins worked this service independently of the brigades. There was no one ...
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... 18. get me there. I do not Imow if they followed us. I don't think they realised I had got out of the station. I attended the meeting of G.H.Q. and at this we were informed that it was time the Volunteers became more active. I was asked if I could arrange to attack a police barracks earl: in 1920 ...
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... . About the end of 1918, Peter Malinn had to be dropped as brigade quartermaster as he was not active ...
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... revolvers. Our gains were three service revolvers and our losses some valuable ammunition for our ...
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WS Ref #: 601 , Witness: Henry S Murray, Officer IV and IRA, Dublin, 1914 - 1921
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... 16. Sent forward two volunteers (Patrick Collins and George Nolan) who were accepted and served in the Active Service Unit of the Dublin Brigade until the Truce of July, 1921. It seems to me to be desirable to record this development as it establishes that the men who formed the Active Service Unit ...
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... Volunteers to be posted to an Active Service Unit for whole-time employment in the Dublin area ...
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... in the Dublin area were obliged to leave their homes as a general round-up of active Volunteers by the British ... Volunteer leaders who were also active on the political side and the efforts to apprehend any appreciable number of active Volunteer officers were fruitless because of the anticipation of General ...
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... service in the conditions that obtained was recognised. In consequence a Battalion Intelligence ... the Intelligence Unit in the Fourth Battalion and other Battalions throughout the Army up to the Truce of July ...
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... divulge information as regards the personnel, organisation and activities of their unit. Captain ... that the British Intelligence Service at the time was very highly organised and dangerously efficient. Up ...
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... 9. was made by the police and military who were patrolling the city in military lorries to interfere with the meeting. Late in September, 1918 the British threat to impose conscription reached a critical stage and the Dublin Brigade of the Irish Volunteers was regarded as on an active service ...
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... Brigade, 1916-1921; Formation of Battalion Intelligence Unit, 1917; Formation of A.S.U. 1920 ...
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... and to the British Intelligence Service. Undoubtedly in consequence the British Intelligence Service ...
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... . Raids by Black and Tans and efficiency of British Intelligence service revealed. 21 24. Further re ...
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... this statement deals very largely with the activities of that unit. ...
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... of service in connection with the Armagh, Waterford and Cavan elections and the General Election ...
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... and a Volunteer police force, as distinct from the intelligence service, was established in each Company area ...
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... Service, faulty communications and failure to thoroughly brief junior officers in regard ...
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... taken and for their willingness to give further service. Cathal Brugha directed me to co-operate ...
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... 22. The Battalion and Company organisation differed very little from that of the period previous to the 1916 Rising except in the very important respect that it provided for an intelligence service. In October, 1920 I was transferred from, Dublin to the Tyrone Brigade with instructions to report ...
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WS Ref #: 808 , Witness: John Bolster, Member IV and IRA, Cork, 1917 - 1921
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... , PLUNKETT TERRACE. MALLOW. MACHINE GUNNSRS. ACTIVE SERVICE UNITS, CORK II AND CORK IV BRIGADES. Dick Willis ... for service in 1916. Dan Hegarty and Chris Connell were arrested. On the reorganisation of the Cork Brigade after 1916 these Companies were formed Into a Unit of the Brigade. Officers were appointed ...
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... its own active service unit. Dick Willis, Jackie Bolster, Leo Callaghan, Jim Neill and Jerh ...
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... -2- service organised. The Volunteers responsible for the pioneer organisation work were :- AHIDILLANE COMPANY: P. Waters, Ed. Waters, Batt. Walsh, Thomas Walsh and M1. Healy. ANNALEENTHA COMPANY: Tadg Mullane, John Looney, George Church, Jerh. Buckley, Denis Barter, Patrick McCarthy, John McCarthy ...
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... Volunteers in every Unit were being constantly urged to be on the look-out to secure arms, especially ...
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... -30- No. 4 Brigade). We also carried out heavy sniping on Moore Park and Kilworth Camps. About June, 1921, we decided to carry out a fairly big bombardment of the enemy garrison at the Aerodrome, Fermoy, for the enemy planes had been very active during the Spring and Summer months, and we were ...
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... . Barrack duty entailed the full- time service of a number of men. Training camps were set up in all Company ...
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... -22- Each was carrying a rifle on his shoulder. They laid their rifles against the bank and came up to us with their hands up. We then went down the road and found the rifles against the bank at the side. We handed these rifles to 2/Lt. They were ordinary short service rifles. We went back ...
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... September, 1920. I was acting as Barrack Labourer at Mallow Military Barracks for Army Service Corps ...
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WS Ref #: 1324 , Witness: Joseph Barrett, Member IRB, 1908; Officer IRA, Clare, 1917 - 1921
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... "The Active Service Unit of the mid-Clare Brigade was astir early on the morning of December 18, 1920. Long before the dawn of that winter day had broken over the hills, there had been a clatter ... carried service rifles, valuable trophies from the disarmament of seven British soldiers in Ennis ...
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... of assorted ammunition. This fine haul enabled the brigade to equip a comparatively strong active service unit. I accompanied the party who, travelling in the char-a-banc, took the captured material ...
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... in the British House of Commons, everyone became more active. Parades for drill purposes had almost a hundred ...
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... himself flat on the road and shot the two police, one after the other. He had a service rifle ...
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... Ignatius O'Neill and Sean McNamara in the mechanism of the service rifle (Lee Enfield), its care, aiming ...
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... Brigade, in the absence of a sufficiency of service rifles. It simply entailed melting candle grease ...
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... After about six or eight months, the Circle numbered thirty men. We took an active part in the local agitation for the acquisition of ranches by the Land Commission and, in the division of such lands, we tried to ensure that our members would get preference. These large estates had been ...
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... , reorganisation became really active. About that time, a separate Brigade of Irish Volunteers was formed ...
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... to fifteen of these guns - mostly Martin Henri rifles - were fit for service during the Black ...
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... which had been mobilised for war service, and some members of the regiment were friendly to us. We ...
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WS Ref #: 1664 , Witness: Thomas Lillis, Officer IV and IRA, Clare and Dublin, 1917 - 1921
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... ). Before the Truce I had for a period acted temporarily as Section Commander in the Active Service unit. I took part in the Civil War against the Treaty and ended my I.R.A. service as a Commandant ...
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... and to stay at home. This unit of the Irish National Volunteers covered, as a company, the area ...
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WS Ref #: 1189 , Witness: Thomas O'Connor, Officer Fianna Eireann, Kerry, 1921
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... the different battalion officers in the area, Brigade Active Service Unit and Brigade Staff. Nearly all ... Myles, sister of Billy Myles. At the end of the year the I.R.A. formed a Brigade Active Servdce Unit which was made up of about thirty men. Paddy Cahill became 0/C of the unit. From then to the Truce ...
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... 5. By the latter end of February, 1921, or early in March the Active Service Unit, which became known as the Flying Column, had set up headquarters in a hut at Keel. Shortly after the column decided to ambush a convoy of military and Black and Tans who travelled occasionally from Dingle ...
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WS Ref #: 1017 , Witness: Patrick Cassidy, Commandant IRA, Mayo, 1921
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... that we would keep together and constitute ourselves as an active service unit and, in this way, the nucleus of a column began. We had one service rifle, two Martini rifles and three revolvers, two of which were service pattern. The remainder had shotguns, including a couple of duck guns. We slept ...
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... and reared near Ballaghaderreen, Co. Roscommon. In 1913 a unit of the then Irish Volunteers was formed in Carracastle, a short distance outside Ballaghaderreen, and I joined this unit then. P.J. Ryan ... in the Volunteers took place and the National Volunteers were formed, a unit of the Irish Volunteers was also ...
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... also got one service rifle which was used for instruction purposes. This weapon was got from ...
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... told, but not well armed, We had three service rifles, a few revolvers and a number of shotguns. A g ...
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WS Ref #: 1121 , Witness: Martin Fallon, Officer IRA, Roscommon, 1921
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... had one hand grenade. Towards the end of 1920, an active service unit better known as a flying column was formed in the battalion area. I was appointed in charge of this unit which comprised about 15 ... the battalion. For armament, we had two service Lee Enfield rifles (we had got a second one from ...
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... , but they eventually did. Pat Green and Jim Kelly acted as agents for the loan. We still had no arms in our unit ...
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... . had acted as one unit throughout the country and also how secretly kept the instructions were ...
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... all our men that had been taken on during the period continued to be active members. This could ...
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... Enfield service rifle from Dockery for training purposes. This rifle was the property of brigade ...
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... or 15 Volunteers under my command armed with four service rifles and the remainder with shotguns ...
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WS Ref #: 1701 , Witness: Maurice A McGrath, Adjutant IRA, Tipperary, 1921
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... preferred The recruiting commenced in the 6th Battalion, the members of the active service unit being ... attacks, so columns were formed in every brigade area. In December, 1920, an active service group ... that proved beneficial later during active operation of column. ...
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... , and link up with the active service units there and help to carry out attacks on the enemy at various ...
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... 43. and consultations were held with local officers to obtain information and assistance from them, and from active service units in the carrying out of operations. The companies were fairly well organised and ready to co-operate, but lacking much in arms and ammunition, which was a general ...
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... unit was attached to the Mitchelstown Company, and training instructors attended at Skeheenarinky ... , and drill instructor M. Walsh of Mitchelstown attended to give drill instructions to our unit twice weekly ...
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... no laxity to occur in any unit. In 1920, small amounts of revolvers, ammunition, bandoliers etc ...
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... , brother of Michael, a column member. Torn was a member of the late Liam Lynch's unit in Cork ...
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... 19. into company Volunteers. The people began to realise that an active protective force was at last at hand, and everywhere, from the Comeraghs to the Galtees, we were treated as saviours and received a hearty. welcome from all units. The activities of No. 2 Column were considerably hampered ...
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