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• WS Ref #: 1566 , Witness: Joseph Murray, Brigade Officer IRA, Donegal, 1921

  • BMH.WS1566.pdf, on page 13

    ... and let it pass. Willie Gilmartin, 0/C., Cliffoney Company, got in touch with "Hun" Doherty ...

• WS Ref #: 1569 , Witness: George Hewson, Member IRA, Mayo, 1921

  • BMH.WS1569.pdf, on page 4

    ... , Vincent Calleary, Joe Doherty, Tom Ormsby, Johnny Morrison, Jack Jordan, Willie Lydon and others whom I ...

• WS Ref #: 1599 , Witness: Joseph Connolly, Commandant IRA, Offaly, 1921

  • BMH.WS1599.pdf, on page 2

    ... COMMANDANT JOSEPH CONNOLLY, The Leap, Roscrea, Co. Tipperary. I joined the Clara Company of the Irish Volunteers early in 1918. Thomas Fleming was Company Captain. Willie Duignan and Paddy Morrissey were also officers. There were about thirty men in the company. The training consisted of foot drill ...

• WS Ref #: 1606 , Witness: Patrick Hegarty, Officer IRA, Sligo, Mayo, 1921

  • BMH.WS1606.pdf, on page 10

    ... with illegal drilling along with Frank Jordan, Paddy Gallagher and Willie Lydon of Ballina. We got two ...

• WS Ref #: 1610 , Witness: Michael McCoy, Captain IV and IRA, Westmeath, 1917 - 1921

  • BMH.WS1610.pdf, on page 36

    ... attempt. Jim Staines, a brother of Mick Staines, and Willie Keegan of Tullamore decided to make ...

• WS Ref #: 1611 , Witness: Martin Conneely, Officer West Connemara Brigade, IRA, 1920 -1921

  • BMH.WS1611.pdf, on page 10

    ... and a fairly good supply of ammunition for it. One of the column, Willie Conneely, was accidentally ...

  • BMH.WS1611.pdf, on page 20

    ... of the column Willie King who had gone home for a few days to help his uncle. Although recognised by some ...

• WS Ref #: 1612 , Witness: Peter McDonnell, Officer IRA, Connemara, 1920

  • BMH.WS1612.pdf, on page 45

    ... . One of the new- revolvers, a Bulldog .45,was issued out to Willie Coneely, a member of the Column ...

• WS Ref #: 1640 , Witness: James Doyle, Officer IRA, Cork, 1921

  • BMH.WS1640.pdf, on page 4

    ... in a by-election in which the candidates were: Dr. Vincent White (Sinn Féin) and Major Willie Redmond (Irish ...

• WS Ref #: 1645 , Witness: Patrick Lyons, Captain IV and IRA, County Mayo, 1917 - 1921

  • BMH.WS1645.pdf, on page 5

    ... to Foxford. Mooney and Corcoran of Kiltimagh were severely burned at Bohola. At this time the R.I.C. used to patrol from Foxford to Bohola and Kiltimagh on bicycles, so it was decided to attack them at some time. So four of us, Eamon Corbett, Willie Moran, Tom Byrne and myself, selected a position ...

• WS Ref #: 1647 , Witness: John J O'Brien, Vice-Commandant IRA, Limerick, 1921

  • BMH.WS1647.pdf, on page 5

    ... 4. brother, Willie, who was then a chemist in Cobh. He was subsequently arrested in May 1916, and died after his release from prison in November 1916. Before we left Cork, we received intelligence that we were to be attacked by the "separation" people in Fermoy on our way back. we left the train ...

  • BMH.WS1647.pdf, on page 31

    ... , Willie O'Riordan and two Mid-Limerick men named Fraher and Ryan. Dinny Quish (a County. councillor ...

  • BMH.WS1647.pdf, on page 35

    ... was the man who arrested my brother Willie in Cobh on 3rd May 1916, almost exactly five years before ...

  • BMH.WS1647.pdf, on page 39

    ... Limerick men, Willie O'Riordan and Tom Howard, to Ballylanders. There was a huge crowd present. I ...