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WS Ref #: 1011 , Witness: Patrick Garvey, Officer IV and IRA, Kerry, 1914 - 1921
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... 14. It was during this week that the Brigade 0/C, Paddy Cahill, formed a Brigade Active Service Unit from among the most active members of those I.R.A. who were on the run or who had left home during this week of terror. I did not become a member as I did not leave home that week having been ...
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... to leave the town at the same time as the other active or prominent I.R.A. He was much wanted by the enemy and had joined the Brigade Active Service Column. He sent the Fianna Vice 0/C, Paddy Daly ... and issue of dispatches to the Brigade 0/C, the Active Service Column and the different battalions ...
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... -British service men were co-operating with the I.R.A. at this time, but owin to the attention of the Tans did not remain active. Some few of them, however, Who never joined the I.R.A. were dangerous ... ex-British service man named Denis O'Loughlin. O'Loughlin had a short time previously joined the Tans ...
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... specially for the formation of a Flying Column for the area. The Column as the Active Service Column ...
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... for the unit to attack the three principal officers of the Tans, named Head Constable Benson ...
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... , Tralee. In 1918 I with other members of the Company, Was active in procuring arms and. ammunition ...
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... of the Volunteers, were called up for service as they were on the British Army reserve. This gave ...
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WS Ref #: 1204 , Witness: Daniel Liston, Captain IRA, Limerick, 1921
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... about my business. I have not the date but some time in 1920, a part-time Active Service Unit ... active trenching and blocking roads continuously, cutting telephone wires and dismantling the local ...
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... and knees and succeeded in escaping into the open country. In May, 1921, the Active Service Unit ... and Tans were very active. They arrested John Power and his brother, Joe, of this Company, and were ...
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WS Ref #: 1273 , Witness: Denis McDonnell, Officer IV and IRA, Limerick, 1917 - 1921
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... Hynes in the village. By the end of the year a large number of active I.R.A. men in the brigade area were "on the run". Most of these wee formed into an active service unit or flying column. The column ...
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WS Ref #: 1380 , Witness: Patrick Ryan, Captain IRA, Tipperary, 1921
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... 9. It was some months before I was able to move about again and then the weakness of my leg prevented me from taking an active part with either the active service unit or with the flying column, so I returned to my own company area in Fethard. I was, of course, still on the run and could not return ...
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... , Lieutenant Litchfield himself and a sergeant of his unit. ...
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... 5. Burke Was then an active Volunteer - later in that year he was one of those who took part in the famous prolonged hunger-strike in Cork prison - and both he and Donovan were then 'on the run'. Burke's family had been evicted from their place in Garrandine - it was then in the possession of an ex ...
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WS Ref #: 1439 , Witness: James Maguire, OC Mullingar Brigade, IRA, 1921
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... . In the 3rd Battalion, Lenihan, when he was appointed, was not active. Kiernan from outside Castlepollard was Battalion 0/C and he was not 'on the run'. There was no chance of establishing an Active Service Unit, except for the few men "on the run" with me. We were waiting to get a chance of engaging ...
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... ". Jim Tormey was also there. He was in charge of the Athlone Active Service Unit afterwards ...
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... Volunteer ran away. Jimmy Reilly was an active man and would have been useful, but unfortunately he ...
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WS Ref #: 1500 , Witness: Anthony McCormack, Captain IRA, Westmeath, 1921
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... . In October 1920, the brigade started an active service unit or flying column. It was assembled at Faheran ... Company burned this barracks down. Enemy forces were getting more active now and raids and round-ups ...
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... that an a ctive service unit would be started in our battalion area and I joined this column which consisted of about 27 or 28 men. We had four rifles, two Lee Enfield service and two Howth Mausers ... from the brigade unit in that it was not on a whole time basis and was only assembled a required ...
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... 14. although he had talked freely to his employer about who was who in the Volunteers. He was duly executed and labelled as a spy, although in the real sense he was not one. The Cumann na mBan were organised in the area also and rendered good service in helping with the carrying of dispatches ...
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... was one of this small unit. Meanwhile, the Tang Volunteers, through the good work of Father O'Reilly ...
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... located somewhere in the Athlone Area. William (Bill) Casey, who had had service in the Britisharmy ...
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... service revolver and 40 or 50 rounds of ammunition. He now produced the money and paid. us £70 or £80 ...
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WS Ref #: 423 , Witness: Vincent Byrne, Officer IRA, Dublin; Member 'The Squad' and ASU, 1919 - 1921
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... ! was strengthened by members of the Intelligence staff, the Active Service Unit, munition worker and members ... were very active with the squad - Jackie Dunne of the Quartermaster General's staff, and Jimmy ...
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... of the active officers of the I.R.A., wanted by the British. Their routine was to visit different ...
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... -Division, had full sway in Dublin, and could arrest anyone who was active in the national movement ...
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WS Ref #: 435 , Witness: Tadhg Crowley, Officer IRA and Flying Column, Limerick, 1921
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... I.R.B. until things got active later on when the active service column was started. Some time before the conscription crisis in 1918, Sean McLaughlin of Dublin arrived in the area. He held a meeting ... Battalion decided to attach our unit to Limerick City Battalion, of which Micheal do Lacey ...
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... were any of the active I.R.A. men. I was at William Luddy's of Cush, about a mile outside ... . On the morning afterwards, we proceeded to Cush, near Kilfinane, where we formed the first Active Service Column I believe in Ireland. All the men who were there were not going home again except when ...
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... Father Dick McCarthy, the Catholic Curate of Kilmallock, who later was a Chaplain in the National Army, was available that day near the ambush position in case his services would be required. I think it was late in September or early October, 1920, that the Active Service Column, was demobilised ...
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... myself, wore uniform, and the first shot I fired out of a Service rifle was at Carrigogunnell ... and a couple of Service rifles. On a Sunday we proceeded to Galbally and went up to a range near ... what a Service rifle was. We gave each man who fired, including those from the Ballylanders, Dungrud ...
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... , was removed to another house in the village. The family were free to take active part in the Volunteer movement after that, and we continued active up to the time of the Longford election - Joe ...
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... for service in the Great War. He attended at a parade in Ballylanders when the Rev. Father Coyle, who ... up for service would come back safely. To my knowledge, not one of those who were present ...
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... Donnchadh O’Hannigan, Tomás Malone, myself and the usual members of the unit, as well as members of the Kilteely Company in charge of Liam Hayes, took up positions on the main Hospital to Limerick and Pallasgreen road, about a mile and a half from the former and convenient to Ballinamona cross ...
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... appointed after the inquiry, but Manahan did not appear to be active after that, nor Hannigan ...
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... to the Brigadier. The attack was well. arranged. All the Ballylanders Company were on service ...
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... at least two shots from his Service ...
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... had got for distinguished service on the retreat from the battle of Mona in the Great War. I told him ...
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WS Ref #: 586 , Witness: Kathleen O'Donovan, Sister of Harry Boland, killed 1922; Wife of Senator Sean O'Donovan
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... brought backward and forward, I think by the Active Service Unit. Paddy Daly, Pat McCrea, Joe Leonard ... it was before the Black and Tans became active a quantity of gelignite was stolen by the Volunteers ...
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... into town, with his gun, and, as he could not join his own unit, he went into Jacob's. On the way ...
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... afterwards, bringing with them various Volunteers. Harry was very active in all the elections. He took ...
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... in the service of the British. He actually went to Mr. Jennings, a Baptist, who owned our house ...
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WS Ref #: 676 , Witness: Liam A Brady, Officer Fianna Eireann, Derry, 1920 - 1922
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... 42. During this time the active service unit of the I.R.A. (T.F.P.) were very active. They carried out raids on dozens of Estates owned by ex British Officers where shotguns and various types of rifles and revolvers were found. A raiding party left Derry by cars and visited the residence of Sir R ...
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... . as the active service unit. This group got. word that Craig's Foundry, Strand Road was manufacturing Mills ...
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... was the Active Service Unit of the I.R.A.) used the Fianna on most of their activities, and the hand- grenades ...
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... for them. The column consisted of fourteen men who had volunteered for active service as a full time job. Each man was fitted out with a service rifle, one hundred rounds of ammunition and there were twelve ...
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... to enforce compulsory service in this country we pledge ourselves solemnly to one another, to resist conscription by the most effective means at our disposal." Republicans in Derry became very active ...
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... 41. and it soon became the most active Sinn Fein Club in the city. Robert McAnany was on outstanding Chairman and James Gallagher a most efficient Secretary. The Committee had an ingenious method by which the work of the Cumann became interesting and enjoyable thus succeeding in spreading ...
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... and became more active Dublin Castle required a more detailed account of those activities. In fact ... of imprisonment and was knorn to be an active member of the I.R.A. was met one day by a man who ...
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... of the same letter he states "No service,, when we took over, was more disorganised than the jail service. It was honeycombed with disloyalty and irregularities. The task of restoring discipline has ...
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... noble sons and the first Republican martyr of Derry city. The T.F.P. became very active and they let ...
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... organisation with plenty of pep. It attracted large crowds of intellectuals who became its most active ...
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... a very active part in the June fighting in the City was one of the first to Volunteer to go ...
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... followers could carry out their dedication to the service of God undisturbed. Derry being only a few ...
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... speeches delivered by their Orange leaders in the service of the British Government. In spite of every ...
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... , armed with British Service Rifles, started firing down Fountain Street and Albert Street into Bishop ...
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