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WS Ref #: 1487 , Witness: Jerry Ryan, Commandant IRA, Tipperary, 1921
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... to be recalled by G.H.Q. Some time in October 1920, a battalion flying column or active service unit of which I took charge, was organised The personnel of this unit was recruited from members ...
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... , we had no properly organised Irish Volunteer unit in the district. Towards the end of the year 1916 ...
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... on the road blocks. For the actual attack itself we could only provide either two or three service rifles ... of attacking from the roof. Two ladders were got but they proved to be too short to be of any service ...
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... some useful revolvers. By the early Summer of 1919 the R.I.C. became very active and did a great deal ...
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... 4. Due to arrests and to service with the flying column there were some changes in the company commanders during the years 1920 and 1921, but I have mentioned the names as I now recollect them Two further battalions based on the Templemore and Upper-church areas had been similarly organised ...
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... internationally, particularly it the United States; that I was being released from all service ...
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... , as I have saidi our strengthwas 14 nine armed with service rifles and 5 armed with Martini Henry rifles ...
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WS Ref #: 507 , Witness: Joseph O'Higgins, Commandant IRA, Louth, 1921
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... as an Active Service Unit. This unit went into Ardee on one occasion and made a sniping attack ...
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... an effort to carry out an active ...
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... with us up to the Truce. From the end of April, 1921 up to the Truce things became more active ...
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... of a people', etc. I attended a parade of Volunteers in the Mayoralty Rooms, Drogheda, at which service ...
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WS Ref #: 787 , Witness: Cornelius Meany, Captain IV, Muskera, Cork, 1916; Commandant IRA, Cork, 1921
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... fight a small Battalion Active Service Unit was formed, consisting of the Commandant Adjutant, Michael ... . The strength of this Unit was subsequently increased by 32 more. The following Column members were interned ...
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... not one hit. It appears that Active Service Units from Newmarket and Charleville Battalions, as well ...
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... Battalion was organised in the early Summer of 1917 as a Unit of Cork Brigade I.R.A. It originally ... after the 1916 Rising. The Battalion was originally organised as a Unit of the Irish Volunteers ...
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... and thrustful fighting unit. On the eve of Easter Monday, 1920, in compliance with a General Order ...
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... and special instruction. A specially picked Unit of selected men from each Company got, in addition ...
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WS Ref #: 1651 , Witness: Daniel J McSweeney, Officer IV and IRA, Cork, 1917 - 1923
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... forces up to the end of October 1922. At this stage I was withdrawn from the Active Service Unit ... -Callan road. This Column was in charge of Pierry Tobin. After serving with this unit for some days I ...
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... was unfit for active service and had to surrender my rifle to a fit mane. The combined Columns again ...
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... or three other members of the unit one of whom was Tom Collins were also omitted from the call up ...
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... of the unit was now about fifty. In the early stages training, which consisted mainly of close order foot ...
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... Company took place on 9th January, 1919, when nine or ten men from the unit attacked a military ...
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WS Ref #: 1692 , Witness: John Feehan, Quartermaster, 4 Western Division, 1921
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... be any stuff available. The active service unit that we had intended to put in the field had ... made with the battalions to have the men available for this unit as soon as the arms arrived ...
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... 73. The O/C and myself were in strange territory and not in touch with the Active Service unit there. We decided to get back to our own brigade area, and after saying good-bye to Mrs. McDonnell ... , they told us. We headed back to Kirby's and there met Joe Ring and some other members of the unit ...
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... military down on top of us. Connemara's active service unit would be wiped out in one sweep. We ...
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... that some Volunteers must have mentioned in Confession that they were going out on active service ... on active service. They were lectured on the serious sin it was to shoot policemen, with the result ...
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... there before going on active service. The next night, 26/4/21, the 0/C and myself went to Leenane ... not having them removed before going on active service, but the anxiety of going made us forget ...
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... to active service, but first we had to get more arms. They were asked to do what they could to help ...
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... and a tea was prepared by Sarah Wallace, a sister of the two Wallace brothers who were on active service ...
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... 46. were anxious for a fight and wanted to justify our existence as a fighting unit. We got in a good deal of rifle practice. We had a .22 repeating rifle and plenty of ammunition for same, as the 0/C had a .22 rifle of his own and gathered .22 ammunition over the years. Each man became proficient ...
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... parts, put an officer in charge of each unit and go to villages not too far apart. This was done ...
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... an active Volunteer on his return from the war and was now working as a mechanic in the Leenane ...
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... the following items: 3 service rifles, I Mauser, 3 Martini carbines, 300 rounds of ammunition (.303), 2 Colts ...
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... and myself, had fired a shot out of a service rifle. We had our breakfast and after that went ...
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... they discovered that only two R.I.C. were there and they were killed. We captured 1 service rifle, 2 Webley .45 ...
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... revolvers, I service rifle, 14 rounds of .45 ammunition, and two haversacks. We destroyed the two ...
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... had 11 rifles and they comprised 5 service rifles, 70 rounds each, one Mauser, 70 rounds for same ...
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... 53. protection. The rest was divided amongst the 5 service rifles, as from then on we were to change our line of action. There was no cover between the house and the R.I.C. Four men were picked out to try and encircle the enemy position - Gerald Bartley and Dick Joyce to go to the Maam side ...
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WS Ref #: 1697 , Witness: Dan McCarthy, Officer IRA, Donaghmore Cork, 1921
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... -12- when he was transferred to Cork City. The Brigade Council now decided to put an Active Service Unit (A.S.U.) in the field on a full time basis. In order to raise funds to arms and equip this, unit, it was decided to impose a levy on all householders in the area. The levy was based, in the case ...
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... it into three brigades. Our battalion, Donoughmore, now became a unit of Cork I Brigade which covered ... parades. Arms were becoming more plentiful, and revolvers and one or two service rifles were ...
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... in organising and training the men of the unit as well as ensuring that all enemy il4fles ...
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... -13- or arms in tile dumps. Early in January 1921, a Battalion A.S,TJ. was formed in our battalion (Donoughmore - 6th Battalion, Cork I Brigade). It was assembled for training in my company area (Donougbmore) at Sweeny's, Monatagart. The strength of the unit was about thirty ...
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... in the fight, should the British endeavour to enforce their military service act. When the conscription ...
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WS Ref #: 1712 , Witness: Michael Cordial, Battalion Quartermaster, Offaly Brigade, 1921
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... for the burning. Shortly after the Kinnitty ambush, the Brigade Staff decided that a unit of five men was too small to carry on as an Active Service Unit and we received orders to disband and to dump the rifles ...
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... 3. The Kinnitty Ambush. For some time prior to May of 1921, we had a small Battalion Active Service Unit in operation. It consisted of five men, viz. Joe Connolly, the Battalion Vice-Commandant; Joseph Scully, Michael Seery, Michael Carroll and myself (Michael Cordial). We were armed with five tee ...
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... in the Kinnitty area were arrested but the arrests did not include any of the five members of the Active Service Unit. One of my brothers, William, chanced to make a visit hone to milk cows. Our place was raided ...
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WS Ref #: 1742 , Witness: Patrick Hearne, Fianna Eireann, Waterford, 1921
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... ranks, and it was suggested at one of our conferences that we should organise our own Active Service Unit independent of the I.R.A. in the City. Towards this end about twenty of the oldest members ... in Waterford and we immediately detailed a unit to try and damage her. The plan was to have ...
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... around Easter 1915, and we availed of the train to send a unit of about thirty members from our branch to Dublin. Some of the National Volunteer officers did not like the idea of having our unit ... was carried as a standard at the head of any unit in Dublin's streets. In fact, I have a recollection ...
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... members, left the unit with McEnri, and he established a branch of the National Guard, as he called ... or more advanced status. This unit was extinct in about nine months and most of the members who had left ...
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... and a unit of troops and R.I.C. men searching it. Although they achieved nothing from this raid I ... training at the time, and our unit would supply the necessary scouts etc to cover approaches and guard ...
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... to have some idea of what that unit would have to contend with and the nature of its opposition ...
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... . This was the atmosphere into which the first branchof Fianna Éireann was born. Our unit designated as' An Cead Sluagh ...
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... and in a short time both were appointed as 1st and 2nd Lieutenants respectively, and our unit was divided ...
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... Movement had split and we found our unit working with The Irish Volunteer Section which had broken ...
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... 6. We had promised atSurrey House in 1915, in response to Madam's desire, that we would again as a unit, with its own band, return to Dublin at Easter 1916. Everything was in readiness for our journey by rail. on Easter Sunday 1916. If our President had any information of the Insurrection he would ...
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... 9. In 1918 we had already moved out into the surrounding area and had units organised in Ferrybank, Dunki (Co. Kilkenny), Ballyduff, Portlaw, Dunhill and Carrick-on-Suir, and a girls' unit attached to our own in Waterford. We brought the Countess down and she lectured in the City Hall on 1916. She ...
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... there was a member of our unit on duty every day from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., equipped with a bicycle ...
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... the Police barracks was attacked but again none of our unit was detailed for it. In February, 1921 ...
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WS Ref #: 858 , Witness: Seamus Finn, Officer IRA, Meath, 1921
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... were inside. Brigade Quartermaster Seamus O'Higgins and his brother Sean were still with the Active Service Unit. The two ladies were given but a few minutes to get out of the house which was then sent ... active Company of Auxiliaries that had been drafted into Trim immediately following the fall ...
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... it a formidable enemy post. In 1920 too the Trim area held a strong Volunteer Battalion, an I.R.A. unit which ...
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WS Ref #: 921 , Witness: Martin Finn, Captain IRA, Dublin, 1921
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... that the attempt had been called off. Seán was in contact with members of General Headquarters Staff and Active Service Unit who had prepared plans. for this; rescue. It was apparently decided not to go ahead ... of September, 1920, to January, 1921, and during that period 1 was an active member of "C" Company ...
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... an enemy agent, who had been shot by the Active Service Unit of the Dublin Brigade and whose. name I ...
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... Company of the. I.R.A. which Company was on active: service, some delay, was experienced in having ... activities with a Dublin unit and. I had made: a number of attempts to have him taken on as at member ...
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... 19. Shortly afterwards the Company Commander, Sean, Prendergast, sent for Billy Gannon. and myself. He told Billy Gannon that there was; a vacancy in the: Active Service Unit and that he would fill it. He told me that all, remaining University students in the Dublin Brigade were being sent ...
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... unit of the Battalion laid an ambush for British troops at Findlater's Church during the course ... Igoe and his gang, who were at this time very active British agents. According to information ...
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... unit as soon as it was, possible to do so. To the best of my recollection,. I attended a meeting of my ...
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... 2. present I noticed men who, apparently, had only just been released from English internment camps and jails as some of their heads were closely cropped.. The Company meeting was held at 41 Parnell Square and the re-organised unit officers were elected as follows:; Seán Flood, Acting Company ...
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... 11. I was instructed to remain at home at my 'digs:' with a view to arranging for treatment of members of the unit engaged in the operation who might be wounded.. Information had been received, presumably from higher sources, that Igoe and his; party would be travelling from Gormanstown ...
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... to, Captain King well known subsequently as an active Intelligence Officer for the British had been ...
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... . Not long afterwards, two senior N.C.O's of the Royal Army Service Corps came along on a motor-cycle. When ...
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