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WS Ref #: 353 , Witness: James McGuill, Commandant IV, Dundalk, 1916; Centre IRB, Louth, 1919 - 1920
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... ROINN COSANTA. BUREAU OF MILITARY HISTORY, 1913-21 STATEMENT BY WITNESS DOCUMENT NO. W.S. 353 Witness Mr. James McGuill, Market Square, Dundalk, Co. Louth. Identity O/C. Vol's. Dundalk 1918-19 ... activities 1910-21; (b) Dundalk, Easter Week 1916; (c) Funeral and Inquest - T. Ashe; (d) Bye-elections 1918 ...
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... and to support their fellow Catholics of Rostrevor, an excursion to Warrenpoint was organised in Dundalk by the Patrick Hughes already mentioned under the auspices of the Dundalk Young Mens Catholic Society ... of the 12th July. The Steamer "Ear1 of Erne" sailed from Dundalk on the Sunday morning ...
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... and was received in Dundalk with mixed feelings; fee1ing of joy and jubilation by our opponents and by feelings of sorrow and disappointment by us. ARRESTS IN DUNDALK MAY. 1916. 38 On the 4th May, 1916, a round up took place of many of the Dundalk participants in the Rising. The R.I.C. and military made ...
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... . the outgoing Urban Council had been in negotiation with Lord Roden for the purchase of Dundalk Demesne ... to the people of Dundalk. This property lies in the centre of the town and now has hundreds of houses erected ... with Lord Roden was completed and the Dundalk Urban Council were in a position to follow their inclinations ...
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... of panic and he complained that he was selected to handle a situation in Dundalk Prison which might ... on Hungerstrike in Dundalk Jail" - in that evening' a Herald and in the next day's Irish Independent concerning the Dundalk prisoners, caused consternation througout the country. later on that day I called on Dr ...
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... subsequently and confined in Dundalk Prison including those re-arrested under the "Cat and Mouse Act" were not obliged to go on hungerstrike. 74 A new batch of prisoners arrived in Dundalk shortly after ... prisoners were in Dundalk. This great increase in the population of the prison was due to the fact ...
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... of the 90 odd men marching out of Dundalk. The transport was used on the relay system and thus gave ... in the original plans for Easter Week, and the capture of the rifles in Dundalk was to coincide. 22. The MacNeill countermanding orders arrived in Dundalk about 2 p.m. on Easter Sunday. The countermanding ...
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... :- The late Miss Angela Mathews, vice President of the Dundalk Gaelic League, and also a Cumann na mBan leader and the Rev Peadar McArdle, S.M., St. Mary's College, Dundalk. Both confirmed MacNeill's ... to the Dundalk Corps before any action should take place made every moment important and to ensure ...
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... 19. later commuted to Penal Servitude. All the other Dundalk men in Richmond were, with one exception, deported to England for internment. 40 The chief evidence against the Dundalk men sentenced ... of the Dundalk men would have been courtmartialled. 41 The effect of the execution of the 1916 leaders ...
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... to Dundalk prison. When Volunteer Headquarters in Dublin heard of their transfer Michae1 Collins ... Mountjoy to Dundalk. 52. Following Collins's message I went to Dundalk Prison and I learned ... withdrawn in Dundalk. On my arrival in Dundalk prison I got an interview with Austin Stack, Terence ...
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... of the Republic established in 1916. The other Dundalk volunteers arrested with Thornton were removed ... paraded as an escort to the prisoners. Jemmie Toal - then 0.C. of the Dundalk Volunteers - who up ... in Dundalk area. 76 When the names of the men arrested in Dundalk appeared in the Dublin papers ...
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... of war. To ensure that each of the prisoners in Dundalk Prison who required a visit should get one I made out a list of all prisoners and handed the list to the Dundalk Cumann na mBan. The Cumann na mBan officers in Dundalk at this time were : Angela Mathews (Deed.) Maura McHugh (Now Mrs. O'Hagan ...
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... to Dundalk. At the time and since when I think over the matter of my release I feel the result ... that night took the early train for Dundalk next morning and after an hour's delay in Dundalk to clean up and change my clothing, I was able to join the party for Lough Derg. 121 On my return to Dundalk ...
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... OF THE VOLUNTEERS IN DUNDALK. 9 At the inception of the Volunteers in 1913 the same two men already referred ... arms and ammunition and I was personally appointed as a collector of the North Ward in Dundalk ... IN THE DUNDALK VOLUNTEERS. 10 This new spirit was short lived for the first great war broke out ...
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... to Dundalk after MacNeill's countermanding orders of Easter Sunday. Some enthusiasts conceived the idea of getting to Dublin by Boat and Gerry Norton, Point Road, Dundalk, who had a motor boat volunteered ... but its organisation was well advanced when our Senior Officer in Dundalk, Seamus Toal, heard about ...
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... during Easter Week and in Dundalk, had the effect of turning sympathisers away from us and gave ... to be in a state of abeyance. 36 Thomas Hearty and his hackney car arrived in Dundalk in the early hours ... he had got with the Dundalk Corps to Dunboyne in Co. Meath and that he was forced there by D ...
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... with the Dundalk Corps. Early on Monday Mrs. Donnelly became suddenly ill after the birth of twins and her sister ... with the Cumann na mBan, of the home coming of the Dundalk Corps from Slane on Monday evening left town to meet ... the same time as Sean McEntee overtook the Dundalk Corps with the message from Dublin to again resume ...
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... prisoners then in Dundalk Prison sent two officers from General Headquarters to Dundalk on separate occasions to get a plan of Dundalk prison and the immediate vicinity. Those officers were Liam Tobin and Sean McGarry. Frank Thornton was serving his term of imprisonment in Dundalk at this time and he ...
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... 51. RELEASE OF DUNDALK OFFICER PRISONERS AND RE-ARREST OF OFFICERS - GERMAN PLOT. 101 About the first week of May, 1918, the Dundalk officers who had been sentenced to short terms of imprisonment ... Dundalk Battalion Area, which was in my opinion of a temporary or acting nature. James Teal, the former ...
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... withdraw all moneys standing to the credit of the County Council at the Hibernian Dundalk, whose ... offices in Dundalk for any length of time and due to my close proximity to the offices of the Secretary ... to One of the secret custodians. As those men lived a many miles from Dundalk this delivery ...
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... advised me not to get on a train at Amiens Street Station nor to get off at Dundalk Station. I agreed ... by James Hughes (Booser), a Dundalk man, who had to leave Dundalk after his prominent part in the Distillery Lane Ambush, and whom I bad met on many occasions in Dublin with two other Dundalk men, Michael ...
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... Éireann to get to England. This "wanted" man arrived in Dundalk and reported to me pointing out ... with a member of the crew of the S.S. Dundalk belonging to the Dundalk and Newry Steampacket Company operating operating between Dundalk and Liverpool, for getting ham across to England. I supervised ...
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... 38. instructions to me propelled me from the position of an ordinary volunteer into the position of bein6 for the time being O.C. of the Dundalk Area. Thus at a time of crisis I had to assume ... of conscription for Ireland caused a big influx of recruits into the Volunteers. Our numbers in Dundalk ...
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... STATEMENT OF SEUMAS MacGUILL, MARKET SQ., DUNDALK. 1 I, Seumas MacGuill, Market Square, Dundalk, herewith make this voluntary and. to the best of my ability truthful statement of the History ... , Dundalk. 3. In the early years of the present century I first made contact with these gallant men ...
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... . this was the total transport available to the Dundalk volunteers for Easter Week 1916. 19 On Holy Thursday 'and on Good Friday the usual Holy Week devotions were customary in all Dundalk Churches ... WEEK 1916. 20 It was customary for the R.I.C. to follow all parades of the Dundalk volunteers during ...
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... 6 or 7 p.m. on Monday I beard that a man was shot at Lurgangreen near Dundalk. I was told he man's ... of the events at Lurgangreen came when the 2 horse-brake, which accompanied the Dundalk Corps returned ... the Corps. Then the driver of the Brake was ordered to again turn his horses in Dundalk direction ...
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... into Dundalk and to pick up all the people along the road from whom cars had been commandeered and take them into town. The Brake arrived in Dundalk about 7.30 p.m. on Monday evening with a full load ... . No definite news as to where the Dundalk volunteers had gone or what had happened to them. We knew ...
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... . Some of the Dundalk men were released in August 1916 and others came home afterwards up to Xmas 1916 ... in Dundalk district I wish to give one instance of high personal courage and sacrifice for Ireland which took place in Easter Week. A man named Paddy Donnelly, a Tailor by trade, was married to a Dundalk girl ...
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... McMahon as he promised. 56 In two days' time the first of the prisoners in Dundalk was released ... by the Dundalk Volunteers, kept overnight and conveyed to the railway station with torchlight processions ... released from Dundalk prison a new batch of prisoners SM ...
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... the "Cat and Mouse Act". The first of those prisoners to arrive in Dundalk Jail was the same Seamus O'Neill who was the first hungerstriker released from Dundalk Prison. The next to arrive was Ml. Brennan ... Secretary for Ireland, were going on about the three men on hungerstrike in Dundalk ...
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... a number of well-wishers in Dundalk organised a smoking Concert in town to provide funds to entertain ... to Dundalk by my wife. In order to avoid suspicion at the Railway Station in Dublin my wife ... arrival an Dundalk by William Acheson a. Duudalk Volunteer whose occupation was a Hotel Bus driver who ...
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... 83. practitioner in Dundalk, a man with great qualities of character, quiet, silent, sincere ... be displeased if offered thanks for anything he did. 149 If a raid took place on a Bank in Dundalk ... County Council had gone out of office they had successfully negotiated with the Hibernian Bank Dundalk ...
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... away from me and then approached me in connection with the burning of non-Catholic houses in Dundalk ... in publicly announcing the position I held as Senior Officer of the I.R.A. in Dundalk was not good policy ... Revolutionaries. Neither the R.I.C. nor the Military authorities in Dundalk made any move as far as I could see ...
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... of the I.R.B. in Dundalk worked as a postal official in Dundalk Post Office, was affected by this order. Mr ... in Dundalk had taken the oath of allegiance with my consent and I gave the reasons I had for agreeing. I ...
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... of Dundalk with a little band of 10 or 12, carrying an 1rish Flag to protest against the proclamation read ... the pomp and ceremony with which the British were noted, and the garrison then stationed in Dundalk ...
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... who were to be expelled. This naturally caused a split in the Dundalk corps. This was on the 8th ... the Dundalk Town Hall on the occasion on which Paddy Hughes was initiating the Irish Volunteers. EFFORTS ...
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... . This small number of thirteen was the root of the little corps that left Dundalk on the memorable Easter ... young men, who he heard were of the right calibre. 12. Dundalk was favoured with the Oireachtas ...
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... in getting a majority to support the application. PREPARATION FOR EASTER WEEK. 16 The Dundalk ... to commence. He also informed me that a military instructor was coming to Dundalk to give the volunteers ...
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... 9. O'Hannigan arrived in town I was introduced, to him by Paddy Hughes in my business premises at the Square, Dundalk Portion of these premises being then vacant at the time, I offered both Hughes ... expressed the opinion that the majority of the Hackney Car Drivers in Dundalk were poor men with poor ...
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... 27. arrived in Dunadalk from Cork under the leadership of a man named Maurice Crowe. On their arrival in Dundalk Prison I visited them and gave them a copy of Stack's demands. They all were ... and ammunition "dumped" by the Dundalk men after Easter Week. He also stated that the authorities ...
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... of me. 60 Shortly after this interview with D.I. Norris the military garrison in Dundalk Barracks ... my brother John and myself at Dundalk Petty Sessions. In the charges I was named as owner ...
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... organisation for the Election. We were taken to Dundalk Prison where we immediately went on hungerstrike. Mr. De Valera who was in Dundalk was very much annoyed by our arrest at such a critical stage as he ...
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... 40. wife of Seamus O'Neill of Rockwell College, already referred to, also took up residence in Dundalk to be near her husband. I obtained a permit from the Governor of Dundalk Prison which would admit me and two others at any time we desired a visit to a prisoner (this permit is still in existence ...
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... in Dundalk on the following Monday evening and reported to me on arrival. The priest, whose name I have ... , for faculties to perform the marriage in Dundalk parish. The late Cardinal Logue was Parish Priest ...
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... Terrace, Dundalk, now deceased, during one of her visits to him at the prison. shortly after this all the Dundalk prisoners were removed to Crumlin Road Prison, Belfast. SM ...
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... FOR OAINING ARMS. 97 About May, 1918, there was an absolute scarcity of arms in Dundalk area. I got ... . Dundalk travelled between Dund1k and Liverpool three times per week. My agents working on this boat ...
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... travelling to Newry and I to Dundalk. I arrived in Dundalk at 8 a.m. and at 10 a.m. the R.I.C. were ...
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... houses in Dundalk as a reprisal for the Belfast burnings. None of those ex-Servicemen had any ... in Distillery Lane Dundalk, in which some members of the Crown forces suffered casualties. Immediately after ...
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... . Louth, and lost his job in 1916 when he took part in the rising. On our journey back to Dundalk ... was unable to move. Laying procured a car which conveyed me to Dundalk. The approximate date ...
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... the remains of a Dundalk man who died in Dublin to Dundalk for burial and on my journey home 1 called ...
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... . I had known tins man some years previously when he was serving as a Head Constable in Dundalk and he was only a short time promoted to D.I. rank and returned to Dundalk area on promotion. When D.I ...
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... in Ballykinlar I often thought of why Fr. Coyle disappointed me on. the morning 1 left Dundalk Barracks ... at that time only completed a series of Lectures in St. Joseph's Church, Dundalk on the persecution ...
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... 114. MILIARY OPERATIONS IN DUNDALK AREA. 184 The military operations in County Louth were not as numerous as was the case in some of the Southern areas. This was not due to any want of initiative ... 40 men from Dundalk took part, The raid. was on Ballyedmond Castle in County Down which ...
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... with the other operations which took place in Dundalk area. My numerous arrests frustrated many plans ... messenger to Dundalk on the day before the wedding but unfortunately the uniform would not fit me ...
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... was established in Dundalk by Paddy Hughes, and supported amongst others by the same Tommy Hearty ...
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... . We made a collection in Dundalk and raised sufficient funds to pay his passage home. We sent ...
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... their meeting. 64 Owing to the difficulty of getting Committee Rooms in South Armagh, Dundalk was selected ...
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... 32. on all our cars in the South Armagh Election and also at two subsequent Bye-Elections - East Tyrone and East Cavan. 66 we were released from Dundalk Prison on the morning of the declaration of the Poll, 2nd February, 1918, after 4 days' hungerstrike, and we immediately went to Newry where ...
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... , I wrote to my brother John and he arrived on polling day with three Dundalk cars, one of which ...
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... 47. O'Rourke's car came Mr. Peter Hughes Ex-T.D., Dundalk, who gave what support he could in getting our voters out to the poll. 95 The Scarcity of petrol prevailed in this as in other recent elections. We raided the petrol depot in Dungannon and took all the petrol there which was a small 4 ...
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... in Dundalk and reported to me with Kerr's introduction. He then proceeded to Killowen, Co. Down ...
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... to scale and were subsequ.ent1y handed over to P.J. Berrell after his release from Dundalk Prison about ...
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... the Belfast bank, Dundalk, and the Munster and Leinster Bank, Dunda1k, containing my signature ...
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... in safely conveying to Dundalk. 126 When the German Plot prisoners were released from the various ai1s ...
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... and in some cases their relations. John B. Hamill, Solicitor, Dundalk, gave great help in the setting up ...
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... 65. the R.I.C. in Ballytrain. A few days after the Ballytrain affair I was arrested and conveyed to Derry Jail. As soon as I arrived in the Jail I demanded the status and prison treatment originally demanded by Austin Stack in Dundalk Prison an 1917. I had a copy of Stack's demands on my person ...
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... of British casualties in an ambush in Dundalk. The British raid on the Bank failed to locate any ...
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... in town for permission to carry out reprisals in Dundalk for what was happening in Belfast and I said I ...
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... 96. I had previously arranged a car should pick me up. I got through the Barrier at the station without incident and was beginning to feel that my disguise was effective until entering a crowded carriage a young Dundalk lady coming home on holidays and who had not seen me for three years, addressed ...
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... to the Dundalk Military barracks the following day wider heavy escort. On arrival I was the only prisoner ...
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... to my Clergy. I asked the Sergeant to call on the Rev. F. McKeown, Administrator; Dundalk parish ...
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... Republican brotherhood. I was initiated by James Toal who was the centre for Dundalk. After being ...
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... of the I.R.A. organisation. 172 The position of three Circles in Dundalk as outlined above ...
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... , Sean Gormley of Dundalk deputised for me when meetings of the Leinster Executive were held. 7hen I ...
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... 116. against my leaving the train at Dundalk proved that he had a keen interest in ray personal safety. 188 I had occasion to meet him. after the signing of the Treaty - and when he was Chairman of the Provisional Government - when I conveyed messages from him to the Headquarters of the Anti ...
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WS Ref #: 1052 , Witness: Sean MacEntee, Senior Officer IV and IRA, 1916 - 1921; Member Dail Cabinet, 1932 - 1948
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... -9- countermanding order in the first car. A little later, about half past four in the afternoon, I walked out of Dundalk, was picked up by the second car, to speed off through Ardee to Slane. ...
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... for the Rising. I went to Dundalk in January, 1914, or December, 1913. The Volunteers were organised in Dundalk shortly after - probably around Easter. If you have a file of the 'Irish Volunteer ... friendly with Paddy Hughes of Dundalk and a man called James Brennan, who was an accountant ...
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... -49- plans. It seemed probable that, by this time, the Volunteers would have passed through Ardee and be marching on Dundalk. I purposed, therefore, instead of proceeding to Ardee, to continue on the Dunleer-Dundalk road until close to Dundalk and, skirting the town, to strike the Ardee-Dundalk ...
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... recruiting speech, the whole thing broke up because Dundalk became a great recruiting town, as the Hibernians became a very strong force there. Some time early in 1915, I met Paddy Hughes in Dundalk Square ... , Peter Toal, Peadar Carr, Tuite, Martin, James Sally, Hamill, Paddy Duffy of the 'Dundalk Examiner ...
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... . Then the despatch riders from Dundalk began to arrive, the boys we had passed in Collon coming first. All were ... to Dundalk by the motor in which I had come. It was with the greatest difficulty that I could get the men ... was telegraphist in the Dundalk Post Office and, as great good luck had it, he was on duty there on Easter ...
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... the car put right and were spinning through Slane and on to Collon. Near Collon and towards Dundalk, the road forks, the main road leading on through Ardee to Dundalk, the bye-road leading to But, before the traveller from Collon to Dundalk meets this fork, he is confronted with another, one limb of which ...
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... to Dundalk, and are operating against the trains of the Midland Great Western. Dundalk has sent men ...
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... . While the detachments joined up, there was a short halt, during which two Dundalk policemen arrived upon ... but returned to Dundalk. We had been detailed to seize there some forty Lee-Metford magazine rifles which had ... " in the Volunteer Executive. Like their leaders, the Dundalk Volunteers were divided into two sections ...
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... of an officer's paraphernalia, as I could afford. On Saturday afternoon I returned to Dundalk ... men, had to remain in Dundalk until Sunday evening. Easter Sunday morning broke cold and squally ...
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... . I remembered that, in the morning as I watched the men wheel around the corner of the Dundalk ... confusion. It seemed that up to a. certain point - for we in Dundalk knew nothing ...
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... another even steeper, it is about eighteen Irish miles from Dundalk and four from Slane. As the car ... of recognition. They were two of the despatch riders who had left. Dundalk less than an hour ...
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... -12- two more cyclists, but of a stamp far different, two policemen, one of whom was Sergeant Wymes of Dundalk. Wymes was afterwards promoted Head Constable, as the official Constabulary announcement ... to that hour, once, at about ten o'clock in the morning in Dundalk and, a second time, as I passed him ...
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... Hannigan and Hughes were to march slowly back towards Dundalk. I chose Tom Hamill, who was familiar ...
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... at the Electricity Works, Dundalk. "Mac", said he, "the word has come" His eyes glittered with excitement ...
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... the situation had: our attendants, the Ardee and Dundalk police, were in as evil a plight as we. They even ...
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... -20- CHAPTER THREE. Liberty Hall As Tom Hamill and I began our ride to Drogheda, the Volunteers began their march back towards Dundalk, with the police still in their wake. We went with them a little way, before pushing ahead, working quietly and unostentatiously to the head to the column, for we ...
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... must have the car." By this time, the car had been turned in the direction of Dundalk ...
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... together. In Dundalk, a priest who was very bitterly opposed to us, addressing his congregation ...
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... -51- The Volunteers had come to a halt. I suggested to Hannigan that he should give me three or four men, so that I might rush with them to Dundalk and endeavour to seize the rifles there. But he demurred, saying, what was possibly true, that we would not have time and that the English forces ...
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... of men marching towards us from Dundalk. At once, all eyes were turned upon the new-corners ...
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... , and for these we obtained seats in a horse-brake which conveyed them to Dundalk. In this way, having secured ...
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WS Ref #: 530 , Witness: P.V. Hoey, Captain IRA, Monaghan, 1921
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... 5 Batt (monsrjhan Bde) Farney in the Fight for Freedom 1914-1921 BY P. V. HOEY Dedicated ta the men of '98 PRICE 2/6 PRINTED BYTHEEXAMINER PRESS LTD DUNDALK 1949 ...
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... to the assistance of the Carrickmacross garrison. The Dundalk men posted snipers on the Dundalk-Carrickmacross road to prevent the British military stationed at Dundalk from rushing through. The enemy ...
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... by a party of armed I.R.A. men on the Dundalk-Carrickmacross road and the enemy mails captured. During ... . mails were again captured on the Dundalk road in August 1920 The Courts of the Republic were ...
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... to keep them from coming to the assistance of the the Carrickmaeross garrison. The Dundalk Dundalk men postedsnipers on the Dundalk-Carrickmaeross ...
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... . men' on the Dundalk-Carrickmacross road and the enemymails-captured. During the Summer of 1920 ... on the Dundalk road in August 1920. The Courtsof the Republic wereestablished hi South Monaghan ...
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... 18 FARNEY IN THE FIGHT FOR FREEDOM road to prevent the British military stationedat Dundalk Dundalk from rushing through. The enemybarracks wasthe bui1dng now occupied by the Garda Siochana. The I.R.A. party at the "Bottle Lane" was in charge of the Brigade O.C Comdt. Dan Hogan and Batt. Comdt. P ...
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WS Ref #: 779 , Witness: Robert Brennan, Publicity Department, Dail Eireann, 1921
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BMH.WS0779 Section 2.pdf, on page 199
... 526 concluded ha must he one of the outstanding leaders of the rising. They Had Ovidence Showing He Had Led The movement in dundalk, as well as somewhere alse in monaghan. and He. ...
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BMH.WS0779 Section 2.pdf, on page 196
... to the Governor's office. There was the letter on the table1 addressed to the Dundalk Democrat. I ...
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BMH.WS0779 Section 2.pdf, on page 87
... a hunger strike in Dundalk Jail with a view to securing political treatment. Inr1ediately, his follow ...
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BMH.WS0779 Section 2.pdf, on page 194
... of the Dundalk Democrat, one of the provincial newspapers which was hostile to Sinn Fain ...
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WS Ref #: 829 , Witness: Charles McGleenan, Commandant IRA, Armagh, 1921
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... , and a large body of Free State troops marched into Dundalk and captured the town of Dundalk including ... by the 1st Brigade, 4th Northern Division. Frank Aiken as Divisional 0/C. was in charge of Dundalk ... time before the capture of Dundalk by Dan Hogan I sent some of my men into the military barracks to do ...
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... then proceeded to Dundalk where Frank Aiken, our Divisional 0/C., had taken over the Dundalk military barracks from the British army. From Dundalk I went to a camp near the Armagh, Six County, border in Co ...
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... garrisons made prisoners. On the next day after the capture of Dundalk a consignment of sixty rifles ... of the military equipment captured in Dundalk. At the time we received those stores we got orders from ... treated as officers of the I.R.A. by our former comrades. We were taken, after a few days, to Dundalk ...
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... McMurrin, was a prisoner in Dundalk military barracks the time that Frank Aiken was in charge ... being a prisoner in Dundalk and that he seen his guards giving him their last cigar- ette ... thought that he recognised me. I had often seen him in Dundalk whilst he was a prisoner there and I ...
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WS Ref #: 163 , Witness: Patrick Rankin, Member IV, Derry, 1915 - 1916; OC Newry Brigade, IRA, 1919 - 1921
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... 6. Kelly to come to Dundalk and we were told to tell Kelly the Rising was official and final. We went back to Newry that nit and reported to R. Kelly. He still refused to take any orders from Dundalk ... there was no word, or orders. I asked R. Kelly, early in the week, would he go to Dundalk himself but he ...
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... with him to Dundalk. We went there on our bicycles on Monday night and met Patrick Hughes and Donal ... to be a Rising next week. John Southwell was to organise and get his men from Newry, bring them to Dundalk and join up wit the Dundalk end Louth men on Easter Sunday. J. Southwell promised them he would do his ...
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... ROINN COSANTA. BUREAU OF MILITARY HISTORY, 1913-21. STATEMENT BY WITNESS DOCUMENT NO. W.S. 163 Witness Patrick Rankin Identity Member of I.V. Derry, 1915-16. Subject (a) National events, 1907-1916. (b) Easter 1916 - Dundalk area. (G. P. O) Conditions, if any, stipulated by Witness Nil File No S.435 ...
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... into Dundalk, and thence by the Ardee Road to Drogheda and Balbriggan. It rained very heavily from I ...
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WS Ref #: 510 , Witness: Frank Thorton, Member IRB & IV Dublin, 1913-16; Deputy Assistant Director of Intelligence, IRA 1919-21
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... , arrangements were made with the local Volunteer o/c at Dundalk, Jim Toal, to arrange with one ... in Dundalk Gaol without the permission of the authorities. My sister, Nora Thornton, and Mrs. Terry McSwiney who were up and down to Dundalk on visits to us, were the couriers between Dublin and Dundalk ...
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... 2. Page. 18. Arrested again in Dundalk and sent to Belfast Gaol where hunger-strike began. 54 - 55. 19. Prisoners removed to Dundalk Gaol where arms were smuggled in for mass escape in event of enforcement of Conscription. 55 - 57. 20. Marriage of Diarmuid Lynch in Dundalk Prison. 58 - 59. 21 ...
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... - Dundalk Gaol. 43 -46. 15. Genesis of the New Ireland Assurance Society. 46 -52. l6. Plan made for rescue of Sean Treacy, Mick Brennan and Seamus O'Neill from Dundalk Gaol. 52 -53. 17. Volunteer meeting and demonstration in Dundalk. 53 -54. ...
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... of communication between Dundalk and Belfast. and Dundalk Carlingford/ Omeath/ Warrn Warrenpoint. I returned to Dundalk with Joe and Jas. McGuilI. and Joe Berrill. I was then staying at Matthews', a small hotel at the Bridge Street end of Dundalk. I did not arrive home until about 4 o'clock ...
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... immediately, and after about ten days I was taken out one day and brought to Dundalk. Sam was left ... to Dundalk some ten days before, had been, released that morning on hunger-strike, and actually boarded ... they were safely aboard and brought out by a back entrance. When I arrived at Dundalk Gaol I found that I ...
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... by nearly half the population of the town, headed by the local Brass Band. I was back in Dundalk ... ., right opposite the Gaol at Dundalk. This body of Volunteers was the main Guard of Honour to meet Eamon de Valera on his visit to Dundalk. We paraded through the town in complete defiance: of the "Cat ...
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... and military had cleared away. The week after this incident I left Dundalk one afternoon in a Ford ... very tired, but was rudely awakened at about 8 o'clock by Dan Breen. Dan had come up to Dundalk with a message for Sean Treacy, who was still on hunger strike in Dundalk Prison. His object in coming ...
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... in Dundalk, we made a collection from all the prisoners and Hrs. Terry McSwiney arranged to buy a silver ... was released early in 1918, and who was a lino-type operator in the "Dundalk Examiner". Quinn's first ... , Although we got the runblings of it in Dundalk, nothing occurred there to disturb the ordinary ...
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... the Governor arrived in my cell and asked me if there was anybody outside in Dundalk who would come up ... ; this was all I was allowed for a couple of days. The Governor of the Gaol at Dundalk was named McHugh ...
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... Dublin, Clara, Louth, Dundalk, Down and Monaghan etc. all moved in to help in the general ... strike in Dundalk Gaol, Seamus O'Neill, Tipperary, Michael Brennan of dare, and Sean Treacy ...
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... Stack, we went off hunger strike. I was removed to Dundalk Gaol two days afterwards. There was quite an assembly of well-known people in Dundalk Gaol at that particular period; Terry McSwiney, Sean ...
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... , Ernie Blythe, Diarmuid Lynch (Cork). Very soon after my arrival at Dundalk Gaol, elections were held ... was gone into and arrangements were made with the local 0/c. at Dundalk, to have lorries ...
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... Collins and was instructed to report to Dundalk in connection with a job that was to be carried out ... cars from Dundalk through Newry, Warrenpoint, Rostrevor, etc. As soon as zero hour had arrived, and all ...
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... 35. The morning after our arrival we were all paraded in the exercise yard. There was one man always took my fancy amongst our bunch, and that was a fellow we described as "Long Quinn". I think his Christian name was John, and he was a linotype operator in the "Dundalk Examiner". 2uinn expressed ...
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... in Dundalk Gaol was so lax that we were able to get all the revolvers we required into the gaol ...
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... , and the result was that when Diarmuid arrived at the Station, half the population of Dundalk was there to send ...
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... there. About the middle of June we were all shifted from Dundalk Prison to Belfast. Nothing of any ...
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... bridge and off into the country in the direction of Co. Monaghan. Dundalk remained in possession ...
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WS Ref #: 890 , Witness: Edward Fullerton, Captain IRA, Newry, 1921
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... 28. under the command of General Dan Hogan, entered the town of Dundalk and captured all the posts ... barracks and the County Jail. In connection with the taking over of Dundalk by the 5th Northern ... -Treaty forces were made prisoners and were sent to Dundalk Jail. Among these officers were Frank Aiken ...
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... . EVENTS IN DUNDALK - JULY 1922 - CIVIL WAR. From the time of the shooting of Woulfe-Flanagan up to the middle of July 1922, I remained with the garrison in Dundalk Military Barracks. About the middle ... in Dundalk Military Barracks on two journeys to Dublin to transport military equipment to Dundalk ...
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... I.R.A. men had again to go on the run and all semblance of a Truce disappeared. In April 1922, Dundalk ... was amongst the party that took over the military barracks in Dundalk. When the military barracks had been ... and forth between Dundalk and Newty. At least three-fourths of my time was spent in Newry, however. AMBUSH ...
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... at the appointed time and there I met Jeff O'Hare, John Quinn, Charlie Grant, Seamus Layng, Dundalk ...
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... to the bridge I met the following men: John Quinn, Andy O'Hare, Seamus Layng (from Dundalk ...
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... -FIANAGAN, R.M. On the 3rd June 1922, I was in the military arracks, Dundalk. I got an order that evening ...
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... 27. McMahon and me to Dublin was apparently to Secure munitions for South Down area. We had a Crossley motor tender and lifted two truck loads of military equipment at the Post Office Stores in Brunswick St. and took the stuff to the military barracks, Dundalk. Later on, I procured from Mr. Harry ...
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... about Dundalk for some weeks and had no resources. I was practically starving except for the charity ...
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... by the northern forces crossing the border into Co. Louth after us. We then drove on to Dundalk ...
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WS Ref #: 670 , Witness: James Rogan, Member IV and IRA, Armagh, 1917 - 1921
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... . came a1ong. They arrested me and took me with them into Ann Street Barracks in Dundalk. In the Barracks ... in the Plaster House affair. I was later brought to the Dundalk Military Barracks and was kept there for about 2 weeks. From Dundalk I was removed to Victoria Barracks, Belfast. Some time later I ...
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... ROINN COSANTA. BUREAU OF MILITARY HISTORY, 1913-21. STATEMENT BY WITNESS DOCUMENT NO. W.S. 670 Witness James Rogan, Monascrebe, Faughart, Dundalk, Co. Louth. ldentity. Member of Dromantee Company (Co. Armagh) Irish Volunteers, 1917 Subject (a) National activities, Ulster, 1917-1921; (b) Ambush ...
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... STATEMENT BY MR. JIM ROGAN, Monascribe, Faughart. Dundalk, Co. Louth. I joined Dromantee Company ... Moore R.I.P. and James Murphy. We received our orders for this operation from Dundalk, and We cycled ... of Dundalk and Cooley Volunteers. We all travelled a short distance from Omeath in the direction ...
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... 8. view of the main road leading into Dundalk. At the time I was detailed for this position ... the railway bridge facing Dundalk. This party was under the command of Felix Dawe, who later became 0/C ... of the road and comprised many Dundalk Volunteers, together with officers from south Armagh who had ...
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... , morning Tom Rogers, then Battalion Quartermaster of Dundalk Battn., came out to where; the rifles ... 1921, about daylight, I mobilised at the house where the rifles were dumped. A number of Dundalk ... being taken there, a number of men were engaged in making a hole in the road slightly on the Dundalk ...
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... . I then heard the sound of a number of motor lorries coming towards us from Dundalk direction. Most ... to Faughart School. It was now evident that the firing at Barrett's had given, the alarm in Dundalk ... that all our positions were being encircled, The Dundalk men from the various positions: started ...
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... refused to stop the work and no further action was then taken. The next day Barrett went into Dundalk ... the Christian Brothers School in Dundalk. Barrett claimed that this young fellow was one of the party who ...
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... , was: known, the Volunteers in Dundalk area got instructions to go around to the people requesting them ...
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... travelled as a relief each morning by motor lorry from Dundalk and came either by Thistle Cross ...
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WS Ref #: 672 , Witness: Thomas Luckie, Lieutenant IRA, Armagh, 1921
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... at Urcher 4 8. Attack on Crossmaglen R.I.C. barracks 4 9. Capture of Dundalk by pro-treaty forces 5 10. The effect of the Civil War on the republican effort. in Northern Ireland 5 11. Attack on Dundalk ... posts in Dundalk. ...
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... Headquarters; in Dublin the evacuation of the town of Dundalk, the release of all our prisoners ... expired I was mobilised for an attack on Dundalk prison where a large number of republican ... of Dundalk in which we captured all the posts held by National Army troops including the military ...
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... Headquarters was in Anne Street, Dundalk. Anne Street were then recognising. and taking orders from the Four ... in the military barracks, Dundalk and who were taking Orders from the old G.H.Q. in Beggars Bush. I ...
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... deprived of our arms. The next item of importance was the invasion of Dundalk by troops of the 5th ... . This invasion of Dundalk put an end to more than a two weeks' period of neutrality which started ...
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