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WS Ref #: 1167 , Witness: Michael O'Leary, Commandant Fianna Eireann, Kerry, 1921
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... . At the time John Joe Sheehy was acting Battalion 0/C and was also O/C of a Battalion Active Service Unitwhich had teen formed a couple of months earlier. On this particular morning the Active Service Unit tock up positions in different parts of the town with John Joe Sheehy in charge. A Fianna ...
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... as ne lay on the ground. After the shooting the other members of the Active Service Unit and Fianna ...
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... mansion, Paddy Cahill formed an Active Service ...
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... 17. Unit, which later became the Flying Column. The Rea's had placed their house at the disposal of the I.R.A. Cahill and most of the I.R.A. who had to leave Tralee after November Night, stayed there from time to time. As well as the large country mansion, Mrs. Rea owned a large business premises ...
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WS Ref #: 1348 , Witness: Michael Davern, Commandant IRA, Tipperary, 1921
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... brought to his house. I recovered rather quickly and was again on active service in about a fortnight. In May 1921, Ned O'Reilly and I were proceeding to a meeting of active service unit leaders ...
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... 45. claim, within all reason, that four or five of them were wounded, as they were taken off the train at Goolds Cross, brought to Dundrum Barracks, and afterwards to the military hospital at Tipperary. We then arranged with the 2nd Battalion active service unit - that is, with the late Commandant ...
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... convalescing. Active service columns were formed in October 1920. They were first called battalion 'active service groups', afterwards to be known as 'active service units'. We took up ambush positions two ...
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... 43. military convoy was to pass by rail. Immediately all columns and active service units were ordered to Golden Garden, near the scene of the Coolacussane ambush. The rails were prepared ... soldiers. All the active service units returned to their own areas. We then concentrated very heavily ...
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... , it was decided that any of the members of the active service units, who were not known to the British ...
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... 9. Our unit grew to great strength due to the energy of Seamus Robinson and others, helped in no small way by the Rev. Matt Ryan, that old Land League campaigner and 'gaolbird' who never missed an occasion to press home to the young men of the parish, and surrounding parishes ...
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... insisted that I should go back to my own unit. Donovan and I had arranged, when we were in jail ...
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... on the walls, Lacy was a native of Kilkenny and became an active Volunteer. The day following ...
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... an active part in the war which was then being waged. Sean had already told me that men were publicly ...
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... , but a few who accepted the Treaty became active in organising the Free State army and, to our grave concern ...
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... then in the British service. The escape was planned for a Sunday morning which, per usual, was a freer ...
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WS Ref #: 434 , Witness: Charles Dalton, Member 'The Squad', 1921
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... members. Paddy Daly, after his release from Ballykinlar, took charge of the newly-formed active service unit, while Joe Leonard continued in the squad. During my association with the squad ... the whole period of active service in which I was associated with members of the squad ...
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... and Crown service, organising and developing intelligence in the Dublin Brigade as an adjunct to headquarters Information Service, and participating in active service actions arising from our duties. Our ... for by the Brigadier who asked me would I join the G.H.Q. Intelligence Unit, which I did. I reported ...
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... of information, the British army had a military Intelligence Service which was conducted in Dublin by Major S.S. Hill Dillon. During 1921, the British Secret Service established an independent Intelligence Unit principally in Dublin, which worked, it is believed, directly with the Cabinet in London ...
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... by the Active Service Unit, but by all units that were available in the Dublin Brigade, to shoot Igoe ... . They were all Irishmen who had considerable service in the R.I.C., with the exception ...
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... 35. in Abbey St. which was used as a rendezvous and place of waiting by the Active Service Unit. Here were assembled all the men on the job waiting for my message. Michael Collins was with them and I made my report. MacEoin's days were now numbered, and Michael, fretted by the continual delays ...
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... Encirclement of area in Dublin by Crown Forces. 40 The late Mick McDonnell's reference to Active Service ...
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... and were thus immobilised from active detection work. In this body there were two or three officials ... of Intelligence was in touch with contacts in the prison service, warders in Mountjoy Jail - Daly and Peter ...
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... in Ireland, en route to the Curragh. This ambush was arranged to take place after many of the active ... of the depletion the Custom House arrests had made in the ranks of the active Volunteers in Dublin. ...
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... depended, as also did the Secret Service for much of their information on particulars supplied ... demise, informers of this type were contacted by other members of the counter Intelligence Service ...
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... 8. Shortly before the Truce, Murray and Dan McDonnell were our contacts with Dave Neligan, who was then residing with another Secret Service man (Woolley) in Kingstown, having left the "G" Division, on the instructions of Michael Collins, to join the British Secret Service proper. THE DIRECTOR ...
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... Service in Ireland was brought to a standstill. THE IGOE SQUAD. Towards the end of 1920 a young Irish ...
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... . However, he made up a patch unit to attend to the officers in Upper Mount Street. On the Saturday ...
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... clothing G.D. We understood that Sergeant Roche was a particularly active Crimes Special man, and his ...
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... Gleeson. I duly reported the facts and the Director of Intelligence had active inquiries made through ...
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... Barracks. From the nature of the text it was clear that Captain Lees was a British Secret Service ...
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... . VINCEIT F0UVARG MD BRIGADE ITLIGENCE. Later on, the Brigade Intelligence Service was organised ...
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... 41. men, many of them with service in the 1916 insurrection, were informed by the Brigadier that a certain line of action would be necessary if the movement was to continue. In this connection he indicated that it would be necessary to shoot some members of the "G" Division whose political ...
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WS Ref #: 783 , Witness: Thomas Ryan, Commandant IRA, Tipperary, 1921
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... of the - Local Active Service Unit L.A.S.U. joined Column here and the local Coy. Volunteers assisted ... assistance from Active Service Units in the carrying out of operations at different points. We found ...
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... and, when Aylward with his few Active Service Unit men came to us at that point, they were unable ...
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... the formation of the Active Service groups and was one of the first - if not the first - acts of the active service group in that locality. The rumour had got around that. the enemy intended to establish ...
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... of the last incidents that occurred before the formation of the active service groups was the burning of some ...
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... said already, up to then I had had no real active service whereas Seán Hogan, though he was only ...
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... first shot fired on active service. I fired twice again rapidly but there was still no response from ...
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... following this, the Columns were disbanded and were replaced by active service groups in each Battalion ...
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... 110. Robinson had come to Tipperary after his release from prison in 1917 to become the G.H.Q. Organiser of the Volunteers in the county. His 1916 service and the fact that he was the G.H.Q ... in and about the Brigade Headquarters at Rosegreen, taking no active part in the work of the Columns ...
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... 8. a few trips to the locality and suggested the organising of a Volunteer unit there. On his second visit to us, he gave us an outline of the organisation and generally encouraged us, pointing out what should be done and how to do it. Treacy came to Ned McGrath of Cahir who afterwards became ...
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... the active period of 1920-1921 109 - 111 ...
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... Company Captain. This Company never became a very prominent unit, and the Redmondite split coming ...
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... 72. crisis had come, but we felt it would be more fitting to face death together, as a unit, selling our lives as dearly as possible when the attack came. We felt, in any case, that there was no hope whatever of any of us escaping either individually or otherwise. In view of this unanimous decision ...
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... of active opposition, particularly from the woman of the house, which I decided we would disregard ...
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... them. The latter, realising that an active and trained protective force was now amongst them, looked ...
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WS Ref #: 1573 , Witness: Brigid Ryan, nee Brophy; Officer Cumann na mBan, Carlow, 1921
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... -4- seditious documents, they failed to get them. During this period, I guided Lieutenant Michael Fay to the place where the brigade active service unit was billeted. He was later captured by enemy ... the interior of the café and house. I volunteered for active service, and was instructed to be prepared ...
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... it over to the brigade active service unit. I also brought. arms and ammunition to Volunteers who were ...
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... -6- During all this period, my home was continually raided by Free State troops. I was all this time in close contact with the I.R.A. active service units, and. helped to supply them with food and other necessities. I was arrested on 16th March, 1923, and was released on 27th of the same month. I ...
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WS Ref #: 852 , Witness: Thomas Wallace, Lieutenant, IV Limerick, 1916; Officer, IRA Limerick, 1921
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... STATEMENT BY THOMAS WALLACE. CAEERDAVIN, ENNIS ROAD, CO. LIMERICK. FORMERLY WASHPOOL. PALLASKENRY, CO. LIMERICK. 1ST LIEUTENANT, PALLASKENRY COMPANY, 4TH (RATHKEALE) BATTALION. WEST LIMERICK BRIGADE AND MEMBER, BRIGADE ACTIVE SERVICE UNIT. I joined the Pallaskenry Company in 1913 when ...
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WS Ref #: 873 , Witness: Charles Browne, Officer IRA, Cork, 1921
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... STATEMENT BY CHARLES BROWNE, DUNORA. GLASIEN ROAD. CORK. ADJUTANT 7TH (MACROOM) BATTALION CORK 1 BAIGADE, AND MEMBER, BATTALION ACTIVE SERVICE UNIT. INTRODUCTION. Prior to the formation of the Irish Volunteers in the Macroom Area, Nationalist opinion was almost evenly divided in support ...
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... - 27 - The Intelligence Service was given a close overhaul and personnel were established in the Post Office Service, on the Railway, in Williams' Hotel, Macroom, from where the enemy got most of his ... composed of young and active girls ably led by Mrs. D. Corkery and Miss Molls Cunningham, were also ...
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... and those who had been prevented by mis- leading instructions from taking an active part in the fight ... of the Macroom Unit was called. It was formed into a Company and a small number of new members ...
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... service at Carrigaphouca, two miles from Macroom on the road to Ballyvourney. It was their job to keep ... Training Officer were arrested, as well as some active Column men. On June 24th a Black and Tan named ...
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... - 41 - ROUND-UP BY ENEMY FORCES. On March 10th a round-up by a large force of enemy drawn from Cork, Ballincollig, Macroom, Bandon and Killarney took place. An intensive comb-out of the area occurred. All our Active Service Columns successfully evaded enemy contact. BLOCKING OF ROADS ...
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... , the Irish Volunteers came into being in Macroom. A unit was formed at a meeting at the Fairfield ... officers appointed until after 1916. The numbe of men in the unit was about 27. TRAINING. Parades of the unit were held on two nights a week and a route march took place each Sunday to some village ...
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... - 3 - EASTER WEEK. Prior to Easter Week an effort was made to arm the unit and a number of shot ... , 1916, the Macroom Unit to the number of 23 mobilised for a parade to Carriganimma. It remained ... evening news arrived of the Insurrection in Dublin and an immediate mobilisation of the Unit was ordered ...
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... that this portion of the Column had left over forty- five minutes earlier. He returned to his unit, which ...
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... and Denis O'Connell. As these were the first service rifles obtained by the Battalion they were quickly put into service and selected men were instructed and trained in their use. A demobilised Irish ...
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... accelerated and got away. On May 9th I was incapacitated from active duty by an ankle injury and had ...
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... - 45 - arrived. I have never heard the reason for this. In all, one hundred armed men took part in this abortive raid and at least fifty men from 'A' and 'B' Companies were on active scouting duty and did a good job in bringing such a large Column into positions within a few hundred yards of two ...
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... over five days, proved abortive. Not even one active Volunteer was arrested. MY ARREST. On June 4th ...
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... Service in Macroom with an Auxiliary Officer named Patrick Carroll- a native of the West of Ireland. He ...
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WS Ref #: 304 , Witness: James Coughlan, Member IV, Dublin, 1914 - 1916
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... by P. H. Pearse, who made it fairly obvious that we would be on active service in the near future ... no time in contacting my unit ("C" Company, 4th Battalion) and attended a parade of what appeared ...
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... night, and the other events of that night, that the Easter "manoeuvres" meant active service. Whilst ...
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... 2. APPENDIX - (Continued) Ref. Page 18 Question 7. Some years ago I read a book written by a man called Howe (or Hoey) who was secretary to Admiral Hall of the British Admiralty Intelligence Service ... of rifles in use in the Nurses' Home. They were British Service Lee-Enfields (.303"), Martini-Enfie1ds ...
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... suspected he might be a secret service man dressed up; then, as he appeared to have drink ...
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... -5- On Easter Monday morning I received a mobilisation order about ten o'clock. The point of mobilisation stated was Emerald Square, the time 11 a. m. Rations for eight hours were to be carried, also arms and full supply of ammunition. Full service equipment was to be worn, including overcoat ...
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WS Ref #: 719 , Witness: Timothy O'Sullivan, Member IRA, Cork, 1921
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... -12- The Cork City Active Service Unit was formed from the 1st and 2nd Battalions of Cork I Brigade and operated on a whole time basis. Some members of 'E' Company belonged to the A.S.U., None of these 'E' Company men, nor indeed any of the Company, was killed or wounded through enemy action when ...
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... its formation up to the time of the Truce in July, 1921, was one hundred and twenty active members ... of the conscript- tion threat in April, 1918, 'E' Company, as well as very other Volunteer Unit ... the ranks of the Volunteers. However, these "volunteers" were formed into a separate unit of 'E ...
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... active. For instance, in 1916 two Company members, who were also members of the crew of one of the B ...
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... ' Company was active. For, example, canister type bombs and pikes were manufactured; the City of Cork ...
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WS Ref #: 1716 , Witness: Sean MacKeon, OC Longford Brigade IRA, 1921; Member Dail Eireann, 1929; Cabinet Minister, 1948
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BMH.WS1716pt2.pdf, on page 211
... 201. card I took was not, "Trust in God, go ahead and do your best!", but, "Trust in God, have patience and wait!" That is why I got out my notes and began to deliver my speech from the dock. Outside, men of Collins' Active Service Unit were in the Exchange Hotel, waiting and watching the window ...
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... very valiant service:- May Maguire. Annie Duffy. Nellie Kenny (Mrs. Evers), deceased. Julia ... an attack upon a mobile unit of the enemy. Every available weapon was mobilised. Positions ...
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BMH.WS1716pt2.pdf, on page 115
... Brigade, both Volunteers and Cumann na mBan, was fully organised for active service by November 1st ...
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... Vice Commandant Murphy, was at Lisnageera, about a mile from Edgeworthstown. The Ballinalee unit cycled from the forge to Lisnageera via Clonbroney church. Murphy and his unit from Granard came ... . The Longford unit was to man and block the Black Bridge (railway bridge) at Edgeworthstown. Ned Cooney ...
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... , through Charlie Fitzpatrick of Ballinagh who passed them on from unit to unit. Another British ... attempts to return to Longford. We believed that it was his intention to return to his unit. He had ...
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BMH.WS1716pt2.pdf, on page 132
... 122. perform. It was decided that no action would be taken against the enemy unit An officer of the column named Barney Kilbride, who had been finding difficulty in sleeping on the hard ground round ... to commend it as a resting place than the curate's bed, promptly rejoined his unit. The family of Constable ...
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... 16. Chapter 111. Military Developments. The Volunteers were reformed in 1917, but still remained a very small unit - not more than nine or ten members. There was no appointment of officers, other than that of myself as Centre of the I.R.B. This situation continued until the passing of Conscription ...
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... of Carty and other prisoners. On my release, I discussed this with Pilkington. A very active ...
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... in Mullingar by a unit of the East Yorkshire Regiment (?). He evaded capture was wounded and re-captured ...
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... , early in 1920, the Cumann na mBan was fully organised in the Brigade area, a unit having been ...
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... 65. To give some unit from Athlone Military and from Ballymahon of their travels, they Commandant Paddy Ryan myself with a special that he had information to be occupied. We immediately, remove and to burn it. I obeyed as given. This led to a Court Curraghboola House, mention that a certificate ...
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BMH.WS1716pt2.pdf, on page 167
... between our unit and the striking place. However, we moved mines, exploders and all to Clonwhelan ...
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... No actual plebiscite has that issue. Sinn Féin, we had an active in harmony with Sinn Féin ...
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... !", my active left hand at the same time wrenching the rifle from his hand. He opened his mouth ...
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BMH.WS1716pt2.pdf, on page 120
... , for the weather was severe, with frost and snow. Prior to the events described, the police had been very active ...
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... anything yourself. A, Yes, I fired at the accused. Q You had a rifle. A. Yes, and ordinary service rifle ...
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... Drumlish, and many a laugh since. The arms of the party were made up of five service rifles (one Mauser ...
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BMH.WS1716pt2.pdf, on page 157
... the service to the crown that he was rendering, that he was a member of the Ulster Volunteers, and that he ...
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BMH.WS1716pt2.pdf, on page 217
... 207. must be regarded as confidential during his life-time or while in the service, that he proposed to write about this and other incidents during his term of office in Dublin, and I believe that he informed the Bureau of Military History, in reply to a query from them, that he would do so. I am ...
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