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WS Ref #: 739 , Witness: Felix O'Doherty, Captain IRA, Cork, 1921
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... took the proper course. Frank Busteed then became Captain and I continued in the active service unit ... -45- police became very active, scouring the country on bicycles. On Monday morning one of the newspapers carried the heading - “Lawless Spirit Rampant” — ‘Cattle Drive near Blarney”. I was very ...
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... -29 service. At this time, also, Tomás MacCurtain told me to get croppy pikes made as they would be useful in the hands of determined men. We got some made and had them ready if required. An order ... for Company Officers”, Service Pocket Book”, “Night Operations” and “Military Engineering”. At -this time ...
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... , as the most of them thought that they were going on active ...
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WS Ref #: 1696 , Witness: Patrick Quinn, Officer IRA, Meath, 1921
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... been active in the Battalion area they formed an Active Service Unit. They included Paddy Mooney ...
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... place. At the end of the year, with all the Volunteers in the area, I took an active part in the General ...
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WS Ref #: 954 , Witness: Sean Leavy, Commandant IRA, Roscommon, 1921
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... , but very little addition to our armament was received. Towards the end of 1920 an active service unit ... or four service rifles available for the Column and the rest were armed with shotguns and a few old ...
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... - 4 - Strokestown which by now had fallen away. They got cold feet there, so to speak. There was a garrison of British troops there, about 150 strong, and 60 police. We now had four or five service ... of his leg and making him unfit for service. The British took him away and later he was appointed ...
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... by the R.I.C. The units mentioned above comprised the 3rd Battalion, North Roscommon Brigade, when that unit ...
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... Brigade, which was a neighbouring unit, be asked to take part in the ambush. Martin Fallon, who ...
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... - 21 - and truly shook the already low morale of the Crown forces. Death sentence had already been passed on a local man who was working for the British as a secret service agent and the order confirming his execution had already been received from our G.H.Q. some days before the Scramogue affair ...
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WS Ref #: 1296 , Witness: Thomas Costello, OC Athlone Brigade, IRA, 1921
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... '. Instructions had been received from H.Q. to organise an active service unit, or flying column, in the area, and the ... . Our party consisted of about 30 men mostly from the Coosan company. We had four service rifles ...
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... very valuable service to the movement. A further raid for arms was carried out in the latter part ... now four Martini type service rifles. I do not know how these were acquired. I think they came from ... . There were also a few 303 Lee Enfield service rifles Which had been bought from soldiers of the British ...
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... 15. next month was spent on this work in selecting and getting together the different personnel. Jim Tormey was selected to lead the column which, at first, consisted of 10 men. For armament for this unit we had eight rifles and two shotguns. We located ourselves at first in an old house at Tubber ...
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... were more suitable for town work. The column was now re-formed as one unit at Coosan outside Athlone ...
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... 4. During the general election at the end of 1918 the Volunteers played a very active part. They were busily engaged in canvassing voters,, protecting speakers at meetings and collecting funds for the election. On the day of the polling they arranged transport to get the supporters of Sinn Fêin ...
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... paid for the service they gave. On joining we took no oath or made any declaration of any ...
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... of shotgun cartridges. We did not get any service weapons. We did pick up a few revolvers ...
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WS Ref #: 1395 , Witness: James Crenegan, Member IV, Fingal, 1916; Battalion Adjutant, Fingal, 1920 -1921
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... . There were so many of us on the run that it was decided to stick together and form an active service unit or flying column. We went into occupation of a hay barn owned by Mr. Smith, and used his house ... was armed with a Lee Enfield service rifle and one hundred ...
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... all the old members rejoined the newly organised unit and we were happy again. When "A" Company ...
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... no service weapons of any type. These raids - or rather collections - were carried out without ...
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... -25- Orders were received from General Headquarters that all coastguard stations between Donabate and Laytown, Co. Meath, were to be destroyed or burned down. These buildings were occupied by men of the British coast- watching service and their families. They were generally retired British Navy men ...
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WS Ref #: 1399 , Witness: Thomas Peppard, Intelligence Officer, Fingal Brigade, 1917 - 1921
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... also 'on the run' were staying there also and from out of this group an active service unit or column ... and fifty rounds of service ammunition. The rifles were some of the ones that had been obtained from ...
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... officer or agent in each company area. All ranks of the brigade intelligence service lacked training ... of an efficient intelligence service, and it was only when the whole thing was well over ... in this respect had we been trained and directed in the right way. Our intelligence service ...
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... , and a small supply of cartridges. We got no service Weapons of any nature. There were no shootings in our ...
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... honest and straightforward. Earlier on at a service in the church one Sunday he had addressed his ...
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WS Ref #: 1424 , Witness: Michael J Burke, Captain IRA, Cork, 1921
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... . Immediately the Truce was signed I returned, on instructions, to Cobh. During my active service with the Cobh Company in 1920-21 we could be said to have acted as an independent unit. Officially we ... inflicted. We got away immediately. By this time, early June, 1921, I realised that my service in Cobh ...
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... , but owing to a dense fog we could not locate the remaining members of the Cobh unit, notwithstanding ...
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... and dismiss the other Volunteer unit there. I brought the car to within a hundred yards of the barracks ...
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... , acting 0/C of the Cobh Volunteers at the time, was in charge of that unit. My duty was to ensure ...
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... of any Volunteer organisation. I might add that subsequently these companions of mine became active ...
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... in numbers when the crisis passed. The local R.I.C. were not very active in attempting to suppress ...
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... that a party of military were demolishing a hut used by British ex-service men at a place known ...
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WS Ref #: 1446 , Witness: Thomas Markey, Commandant IRA Fingal 1921
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... in a house at Dunboyne. Shortly after the division was formed, a column or active service unit ... , with an enormous network of roads. Had we service rifles, we could perhaps have done something in the way ...
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... in the Naul and Swords areas: and later, when the column or active service unit was established ...
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... , there was no company or unit of the Irish Volunteers organised in the Finglas area. On Easter Monday evening when ...
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... -4- throughout the country, and Sinn Féin, which was pretty well organised by now, decided to contest all seats in the country against the Irish Parliamentary Party of which John Redmond was leader. In this election, the Volunteers took a very active part, and performed a huge amount of work ...
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... good service. In March 1918, the country was threatened with conscription, and everywhere steps were ...
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... -7- collected a large number of shotguns, both single and double barrel types, but no service weapons whatsoever. We had over ninety shotguns as a result of this operation. In the greater number of' was it was only a matter of asking the people for them, but in a few cases particularly the loyalist ...
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WS Ref #: 628 , Witness: James Tully, Member, Active Service Unit, IRA, Dublin, 1921
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... duty from the Active Service Unit. Some time during this month our patrol of six men with Peter ... and I were detailed to raid the house of a British ex-Service man who ...
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WS Ref #: 660 , Witness: Thomas Leahy, Member Irish Citizen Army, Dublin, 1916
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... 39. During this time I served with the Citizen Army in raids for arms, attended meetings and was of service to Active Service Unit under Oscar Traynor, Dick M0Kee, Peadar Clancy, and 8ean Treacy, while doing trade union work up and down the country. During the reign of terror and raids against ...
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... in which I took active part. In looking back to that time in Barrow, I can only recall the name ... with 21 Years' service. He was mobilised as soon as war broke out, but refused to do so on the grounds ... arrangements then to get out of the town before I came under notice, for I was on submarine work and active ...
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... STATEMENT BY THOMAS LEAHY 657 Dumbarton Road, Partick West, G1asow, W.l. I was active in the Labour Movement from 1912 and learned, through it, the way the workers of Ireland were being treated. With wages and working conditions and long hours of employment forced on them by the employers ...
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... or touch with the Party. It then became clear to the active members in the club and Volunteer section ...
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... to the military officers all the prominent leaders and officers or those who had taken active part ...
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... 28. soldiers who were past their active life. Many times we became the guard ourselves, as they could not keep up the pace and carry their arms and keep their eyes on us; in fact, we often carried the rifles ourselves. Later on, they complained about the extra duty as escorts. How they got on we do ...
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... called it. But we had our orders and, together with the active work of Sinn Fein, we continued ...
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... their service in any way of help or support. On arrival I was conducted to Comdt. James Connolly who ...
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... changed that colour he was not approached for any service. After a week or two, he decided ...
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... able to give me more news. Having a war service badge in my coat lapel, served to those on important ...
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... , papers and other welcome gifts such as pencils, writing papers and stamps. After a brief service ...
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... to name men wanted for military service under that act in Scotland and England. We knew they were ...
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