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WS Ref #: 813 , Witness: Padraig O'Connor, Officer, IRA, Dublin, 1921
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... 35. by a stray shot. The match was not proceeded with. BEORGANISATION OF THE ACTIVE SERVICE UNIT ... it was decided to reorganise and bring the Active Service Unit up to a substantial strength ... by the Active Service Unit. We were given to understand that there was a spy named Byrne fired at, wounded ...
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... were assembled there to be formed into a unit which was to be known as the Active Service Unit ... to the Active Service Unit had to bring these arms and ammunition with them from their own units. We had ... operations of the Active Service Unit was carried out by No. 1 Section at Tolka Bridge, which ...
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... and whatever was left of the Squad was incorporated in the A.S.U. This meant that the Active Service Unit and the Squad from then on were to be identified as one unit. The old identity of the Squad disappeared. In any case, the Squad had by this time dwindled down to a few. The Active Service Unit was now ...
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... later identified and it so happened that they were not members of the Active Service Unit, but that they were simply brought along to a3aent the unit on this occasion. The only other occasion on which the Active Service Unit operated as a whole was the time Seán MacEoin's courtmartial was pending ...
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... was appointed O.C. of the Battalion. ACTIVE SERVICE UNIT. Around about Christmas 1920 the Company Commander, Christy Byrne, sent for me and told me that an Active Service Unit was being organised ... to this Unit. Some nights later I was instructed to attend a meeting of the Section in Dolphin's Barn. I ...
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... a few minutes before the military special. The Active Service Unit was in position at the appointed ... got out as quickly as I could. The Active Service Unit got safely away and, despite a thorough ... satisfactorily and he ordered an inquiry with a view to fixing responsibility on the members of the unit ...
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... AUXILIARIES SHOT. On the 24th June, 1921, an operation was planned for the entire Active Service Unit plus selected men from the Battalions of the Dublin Brigade to shoot members of the Auxiliaries ... Service Unit were in Grafton Street. The area was divided up from Suffolk Street to Wicklow Street ...
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... on the destruction of military transport by the Active Service Unit, the British authorities provided ...
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... with lists in his possession 12 10. Bloody Sunday 13, 11. Battalion reorganised 14 12. Active Service Unit 14 13. A.S.U. attack R.I.C. Ballyfermot 16 14. Escape of prisoners from Kilmainham 17 15 ...
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... - Teeling and O'Malley. Paddy Rigney and myself were detached from the Active Service unit to operate ...
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... . At that time, the policy of the Active Service Unit was to carry out at least one operation per day. I ...
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... 28. two parts, one inside for the destruction of the Custom House, and one on the outside for protection duty. The Active Service unit was to be divided up between the two. Our Section and No.3 was detailed for protection duty outside. Our instructions were that we were to take up a position ...
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... the burning of the Custom House the Active Service Unit again re-assembled at the Dump in ...
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... executed in Mount joy Jail on the 14th March, 1921. By way of reprisal the Active Service Units had ...
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... that it was a job for his unit and that we should have nothing to do with it; that our operational area ...
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... as this position had been a matter of dispute between two members of the unit and Paddy Flanagan. The chief ...
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... of the Battalion, who were available for active duty. At that time, it was usual for a number of men ...
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... active in seizing British Military Transport wherever it could lay hands on it and destroy it either ...
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... Aungier Street but they refused our service there unless we could produce arms. The flag over Jacob's ...
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... of Donney, who resided at Robinhood Lane, Bluebell, Inchicore, who was an ex-service man ...
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WS Ref #: 872 , Witness: Thomas Ketterick, Officer IRA, Mayo, 1921
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... ROINN COSANTA. BUREAU OF MILITARY HISTORY, 1913-21. STATEMENT BY WITNESS. DOCUMENT NO. W.S. 872 Witness Thomas Kettrick, Abbey St., Howth, GO. Dublin. Identity. Quartermaster, (i) West Mayo Brigade (ii) Active Service Unit of the West Mayo Brigade. Subject. Nationa 1 and military activities, West ...
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... the organisation died out and did not become active again until after the Truce. At no time did it yield ...
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... a Service rifle. The R.I.C. kept all of us under observation and marched along close to us. After ...
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... . Eventually I gave 6 Service rifles to the North Mayo Brigade. All this time my wounded leg ...
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... in all and about 20 Service rifles; a good supply of short-arms and shotguns, and an abundance of hand ...
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... and sentries in addition to what measures the battalion took. Intelligence service in the area ...
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WS Ref #: 1016 , Witness: Seamus McKenna, Commandant IRA, Belfast, 1921; Lieutenant Cavan ASU, 1921
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... ROINN COSANTA. BUREAU OF MILITARY HISTORY, 1913-21. STATEMENT BY WITNESS. DOCUMENT NO. W.S. 1,016 Witness Seamus McKenna, 146 Homefarm Road, Drumcondra, Dublin. Identity. 0/C. 1st Battalion Belfast Brigade; Lieut. Cavan Active Service Unit. Subject. Military activities, Belfast-Cavan, 1917-1922 ...
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... that operation, it was decided to form a small active service unit in Belfast, whose purpose it would ...
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... of B. Company, and they were the two senior officers on the small active service unit. For coolness ...
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... judge, the members of the Circle were mostly Volunteers With long service; some of them were pre-l916 ... and active Volunteer officers in Ireland, but he could not be induced under any circumstances to join ...
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... of the Auxiliaries. I made the suggestion that an additional unit should be called out which, armed with bombs ...
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... Brady was known to the enemy as an ardent sympathiser and his daughter, dare, was a very active ...
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WS Ref #: 1162 , Witness: Michael Kilroy, OC 4 Western Division IRA, 1921
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... western Division I.R.A. Subject. Active Service Unit Operations West Mayo, 1921. Conditions, if any ...
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... ORIGINAL BUREAU OFMILITARY HISTORY 1913-21 BURO STAIRE MILEATA1913-21 NO. W.S. 1, 162 STATEMENT BY GENERAL MICHAEL KILTOY, Newport, Co. Mayo. PART II. Active Service Unit Operations. Several attempts having been made by the Active Service Unit at Cordaragh, Murrisk (Glosh Patrick), Glenisland ...
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... appreciated by all in the unit. We knew that his active participation would add prestige, not merely to the unit, but to our whole organisation in the West. On our journey that night, we saw the Verey lights ...
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... cost us in Kilmeena. These instructions became a daily topic with every member of the unit from ...
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... the members of the Westport Unit in Curvey and Lankhill villages. Those were the boys we missed so much ...
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... required the service of this Company in connection with the fight we were looking forward ...
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... rendered the best service I could with this rifle but found it very much out of alignment. The enemy now ...
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... every pinch during our whole service period, when the going was proving too much for humans to endure ...
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... valuable service from that post. The fact of the enemy seeing, him go there was, in itself, a great ...
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WS Ref #: 1188 , Witness: Michael J Mansfield, Officer IV and IRA, Waterford, 1914 - 1924;
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... ROINN COSANTA BUREAU OF HISTORY 1913-21 STATEMENT BY WITNESS DOCUMENT NO. W.S. 1,188 Witness Michael J. Mansfield, The Burgery, Dungarvan, Co. Waterord. Lsentity Q.M. West Wayerford Brigade; Engineer do. Vice O/C. Active Service Unit Subject. National Activities, Dungarvan, Co. Waterford, 1914-1924 ...
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... Waterford Brigade active service unit was formed under George Lennon, Dungarvan. I acted as Vice O/C. or the column. This unit numbered about 20 men, mostly men like thyself who were on the run ...
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... in Waterford, the most active being the notbrious pig- buyer element from Bailybricken, Waterford. In addition ...
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... 15. we rendered whatever first aid service we could tb their. wounded and then got a horse and dray from a neary farm to enable the wounded men to be taken to Youghal for treatment. We took no prisoners that night. What we needea most were guns, not prisoners. None of our lads suffered any ...
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WS Ref #: 1237 , Witness: Patrick Lynch, Officer IRA, Waterford, 1921
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... ROINN COSANTA. BUREAU OF MILITARY HISTORY, 1913-21. STATEMENT BY WITNESS. DOCUMENT NO. W.S. 1,237 Witness Padraig 0 Loingsigh (Patrick Lynch), 58 O'Connell Street, Dungarvan, Co. Waterford. Identity. Q.M. 1st Battalion West Waterford Brigade; Member of Active Service Unit do. Subject. National ...
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... in the days ahead, as happened at Ardmore and other places in Co. Waterford. Formation of Active Service Unit: In June, l92P, the West Waterford Active Service Unit (more popularly referred ...
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... with the Redmondite (National) Volunteers. About six of us left and formed a unit of the Irish Volunteers ... Volunteer unit at all in Dungarvan and those few of us who were members had no weapons of any kind ...
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... to Dungarvan early in March, 1918, re- joined the Company and took a hand, with others of our unit ...
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... ambush: The first engagement with the enemy, in which the Column as a unit took part, was at a place ...
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WS Ref #: 1241 , Witness: Michael Shalloe, Officer IRA, Waterford, 1921
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... Shalloe 10 Garvan's Terrace, Dungarvan, Co. Waterford. Identity. Vice 0/C. Wsterfond Active Service Unit Subject. National and. military activities South Waterford, 1913-1923 Conditions, if any ...
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... , of parents who were farmers. During my young days I was an active member of the G.A.A. and played hurling ... as there were only about six of us in it as a start. Thomas Dee was the officer in charge of our unit ...
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... this feilow would be when he was returning from church service on Sunday. He would, most likely ...
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WS Ref #: 1335 , Witness: James Leahy, Commandant IRA, Kilkenny, 1923
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... ROINN COSANTA. BUREAU OF MILITARY HISTORY, 1913-21. STATEMENT BY WITNESS. DOCUMENT NO. W.S. 1,335 Witness James Leahy, Poulnacapple, Callan. Co. Kilkenny. Identity. Commandant 7th Battalion Kilkenny Brigade; O/C. Battalion Active Service Unit. Subject. Irish Volunteer activities, Ahenure, Co ...
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... , and, with myself these men from that date became the Battalion Active Service Unit. The late Seán Quinn ... service rifles available to us, and any in excess of that number could only be armed with shotguns ...
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... and as 0/C of the Active Service Unit. During these months the British forces moved only in strong ...
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... and Carrs of Elackbog, were heavily armed and that they had formed themselves into an anti I.R.A. unit. Between the three families there were about nine men involved, and all of them had seen service ... , these men had a Lewis machine-gun and service rifles. Jim Roughan, Paddy Raleigh, Paddy Egan, Ned ...
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... 22. prompted Sadlier's remark. The Tipperary lads then went away towards: Drangan and I returned with my A.S.U. to Ballymack in my own battalion area. it was on a Friday night that we parted with Sadlier and is unit at Ba1lingarry We went to Teehan's of Shipton and spent the night ...
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WS Ref #: 1434 , Witness: Paul Mulcahy, Captain IRA, Tipperary, 1921
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... Battalion, 3rd Tipperary Brigade, l9UI-l92l, and Battalion Active Service Unit, 1920-1921. Conditions ...
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... 11. all level countryside, interwoven with a network of roads, and this made it impossible for an Active Service Unit to function as a unit within the area and to avoid the periodic round-ups by the British forces. To counteract this difficulty, the unit frequently broke up into small parties ...
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... a Battalion Active Service Unit, of which I was a member, was formed. Paddy Hogan, the Battalion Commandant, took charge of this unit. When at full strength, the A.S.U. numbered about fifteen men ...
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WS Ref #: 1447 , Witness: John Gaynor, Captain IV and IRA, Dublin, 1921
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... Eastern Division, and of Brigade Active Service Unit. 1917 1921 Conditions, if any, Stipulated ...
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... Boylan of Dunboyne was O/C of the Division. A column or active service unit was now started ... in for training for short periods. Each man was armed with a service rifle and fifty rounds of 303 ammunition ...
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... of the unit the initial plan was to train as many men in the Brigade area as possible rather than carry out active operation against the enemy. Active operations would come at a later date, although I ... for active operations. At the advent of the Truce we were all in good form and our morale was of a very ...
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... . There was no unit of the Irish Volunteers organised there then that I know of. There were, I think ...
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... active men. There were three revolvers, and a half dozen hand grenades for armament for the company ...
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... very active in collecting and organising dances and so forth for this organisation. Early in 1919 ...
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... some agent inside the Government service who would tip him off in sufficient time when Lloyd George ...
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... sporting rifles, one of them a Winchester type. We got no service weapons or any revolvers of any type ...
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