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WS Ref #: 1599 , Witness: Joseph Connolly, Commandant IRA, Offaly, 1921
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... service unit. This; number was augmented as required from the local companies in whose area we were ... Volunteers. In March, 1921, we collected the monies. for dog licences. In February, 1921, two active service units were formed in the brigade, one in Clara under the command of Thomas Fleming, and the other ...
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... . The only arms in the battalion were five service rifles and 200 shotguns, which were collected from ...
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WS Ref #: 1116 , Witness: Richard Dalton, Officer IRA and member of Flying Column, Tipperary, 1921
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... he waa accidentally shot. One of our first duties as the Battalion Active Service; Unit ... to their own battalion areas and act as an Activee Service Unit there. With the other members from ...
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... of our most active Volunteers. In 1920 he survived one of the longest hunger-strikes in history. I ...
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... little activity of note. I have previously mentioned that the position between a number of active ...
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... in number, marching from Lisronagh to Rathironan to attend Service in the Protestant Church there. Barron ...
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... agreeable to go on full time service and who, with myself, made up the twelve men from the 5th Battalion ...
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... and Skehan were then ordered to join the column, and I must say that during my service with them ...
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... . The provisions filled twp or three wagons, and the intelligence service gave us the printed numbers ...
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WS Ref #: 1129 , Witness: Moses Roche, Captain IRA, Waterford, 1921
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... State army, I retreated west towards Dungarvan where I served with an active service unit under Thomas ... service unit operated in the area between Dungarvan and Waterford. city during which we attacked Tramore ...
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... unit of Fianna Eireann, the officers of which were Tom McDonald, 0/C., Paddy Hearne, James O'Connor ...
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... from Ballybricken and the lads beaten up. The flag was immediately retaken by a unit of Irish ...
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... of their armament. Their patrols were very active in the area, one of which called on me at the railway ...
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WS Ref #: 882 , Witness: Thomas McEllistrim, Officer IV and IRA, Kerry, 1916 - 1921; OC ASU
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... of an article in "An t-Oglac" at the time. In June, 1920, an I.R.A. active service unit was formed ... -time duty. The Unit provided itself with a motor car and two horses with spring carts. Some ... on our shoulders. This Unit planned many prepared ambushes and had encounters with ...
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... of our Active Service Unit, all fully armed with rifles and revolvers. The party consisted of John ... were giving considerable trouble and terrorising the natives. My I.R.A. Unit decided to get rid ...
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... unmolested. Previous to above rounds-up our Unit removed nilitary equipment, such as bacon, barbed ...
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... . We joined the other section of our unit some distance from Headford Station and retreated across ...
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... Farmer's Bridge, where on the same evening they shot Frank Hoffman, an active member of the I.R.A ...
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WS Ref #: 1283 , Witness: Patrick Ormond, OC Republican Police, West Waterford, 1921
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... Volunteer unit. Pax Whelan of Dungarvan was regarded as the leader of this unit. Amongst others whose names I can remember were George Lennon, Dungarvan, afterwards 0/C of the West Waterford Active Service Unit, Jimmy Fraher, Peter Cullinane, Thomas Parsons, Michael Morrissey ...
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... was Commandant of the 3rd Battalion, Mick was Vice 0/C of the Active Service Unit, and the youngest brother ...
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... -2- (afterwards T.D. for Co. Waterford), Patrick Croke, Pakeen Whelan, Joseph Vyse and Phil O'Donnell, all of Dungarvan. In the year before the Rising of 1916, our small unit met for occasional ... Volunteer unit during Easter Week, 1916. The only item of note which I can remember was the arrest of two ...
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... unit was to play its part in the struggle which was now imminent. It was, therefore, decided ...
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... , with the result that we had an increase, both in Volunteer enrolments and in the active membership ...
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... -6- others of the Dungarvan unit. The object was to prevent intimidation of supporters of the Sinn Féin candidate, Doctor White, who were being assaulted by the mobs demonstrating in favour of Captain William Redmond. Our headquarters for the occasion were in what was then known as the Volunteer ...
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... begun in the Brigade area, raids for arms and mails intensified, while the enemy became more active ...
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WS Ref #: 1292 , Witness: Bryan Doherty, Member IRA, Longford, 1921
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... of Liverpool having had active service in the first world war. The other was named Stewart, an orangeman from ... and dispatches to the unit headquarters. After this we kept close to the unit expecting that reprisals and military action would bring the full unit into play again. But singularly enough nothing unusual happened ...
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... , of course, joined the unit at Cartron, Drumlish, and Frank Gormley and myself were having a bit ... materialised except skirmishing around, and as a result of the irreparable loss to the unit of Seán MacEoin and Seán Connolly coming so closely together, the unit was badly stricken and in no position ...
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... etc. were at the unit headquarters at Cartron and we hadn't time to get there. We Weren't long ...
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... 14. the action of the Parish Priest who merely had the bodies attended to and covered, and a message conveyed to Longford to the British Authorities. This wise action of a great Parish Priest most assuredly prevented a bad aftermath. This was the last fatal brush. The unit did carry out a sort ...
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... 8. the latest copy of An t-Oglach in the breast pocket of my coat. My two eldest brothers and one older. sister, two younger brothers and a young sister aged 8 years with my mother, comprised the entire family. The two eldest brothers, although in the Movement, were not so active as myself ...
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WS Ref #: 1503 , Witness: Michael McCormack, Officer IRA, Westmeath, 1921
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... beforehand. In September, 1920, a Brigade Active Service Unit or Flying Column was started and nine or ten men from our Battalion joined this unit, including the Battalion Commandant Dick Barthles. I ... 'on the run' or billet members of the Column when the unit would be in the area. We also were told ...
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... ., and Tormey who was afterwards in charge of the Brigade Active Service Unit and later still was killed ...
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... having a full time service unit. This would be much easier to maintain as the men could stay at home ... 17. We of our Battalion felt that something in the nature of active harassing of the enemy forces should be started and I prevailed on our Battalion 0/C. to go to Dublin and get G.H.Q. to send ...
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... men on the Active Service Unit. It was a great pity that Commandant McGiff was not of mature years ...
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... Volunteers. The I.R.B. helped here to hold the unit for the Irish Volunteers. The Drumraney Company ...
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... was then taken into custody by a party of military. They were a Cavalry unit and had an armoured car ...
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... Service Pensions Board recognised it as a major ambush for pensions purposes. ...
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WS Ref #: 1548 , Witness: Stephen Donnelly, Captain IRA, Mayo, 1921
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... 'God save the King'. About this time, the brigade decided to form two active service units, one to operate on the west side of the Moy, and the other on the east side. I was allotted to the west unit with Eamon Gannon in charge. Seamus Kilcullen was in charge of the east unit. Others in my unit were ...
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... that later when I was with the active service unit, I went to confession to the parish priest in a country ...
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... in 1918, the R.I.C. became very active and arrests were made for drilling. The first arrest ...
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... was a member of Cumann na mBan and was very active at this time. The R.I.C. patrols numbered about ...
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WS Ref #: 504 , Witness: Harry Murphy, Member IRA, Dublin, 1921
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... , outside the Active Service Unit, than any other Company in the Dublin Brigade. A Unit of Auxiliaries ... , who had been given the task of carrying out the actual ambush. Our Unit was disposed as follows:- ...
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WS Ref #: 1161 , Witness: Patrick O'Carroll, Officer IRA, Kildare, 1921
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... -4- After this I renewed an application I had made. a year previous together with Sean Rafferty to be sent on one of the columns on active service, and was informed that our own Battalion (the 2nd) was about to form an active service unit of its own and that I would be put on. Meanwhile the company ...
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... at Blackhall and the first service I was called upon to render was the delivery of a despatch ... . A pleasant recollection of that service was the hospitable reception I experienced at the hands ...
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... a British Army Sergeant was expected to attend divine service on a certain Sunday. This man had for some ...
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