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WS Ref #: 1464 , Witness: Con Spain, Commandant IRA, Tipperary, 1921
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... Brigade, Irish Volunteers, October 1917 July 11th, 1921, and of North Tipperary Active Service Unit ...
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... my liberty I made tracks for the Active Service Unit which I located at Bantiss. Here I urged upon the unit commander, Ned O'Leary, to do something at once to avenge Devenney's death and eventually ... week in February, 1921, the Active Service Unit, reinforced by men from the 2nd Battalion and about ...
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... for the Brigade Active Service Unit to take up defensive positions in the neighbourhood of the creamery. About ... with shotguns, reinforced the Active Service Unit, making the total force of over forty strong of which ... and he was fired at and wounded. That evening the police and military became very active and word got ...
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... Companies to help the Active Service Unit, now commanded by Jack Collison, Moneygall, in ambushing ... 12. Service Unit was divided into two for these attacks, one half going to each ambush Position. At both places the local Volunteers reinforced the A.S.U. men. At Cushmona, where I was, the local ...
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... , a member of the North Tipperary Active Service Unit, had been shot in the vicinity of O'Meara"s ...
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... this information to the enemy forces. About the end of January,, 1921, the North Tipperary Active Service Unit was around the Kilruane district. On 27th January, 1921, at about 1 p.m., three of them, Pat ...
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... members were enrolled in this unit at the outset, a share of whom, like myself, were men who had ...
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... conceivable kind of gun which the unit possessed. Between shotguns, revolvers and rifles ...
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... 2. The country was threatened with conscription by the British Government in the spring of 1918, and our company, acting on orders received from the battalion headquarters in Nenagh, got a pike made for each man for use in the. event of an effort being made to enforce compulsory military service ...
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... got a Lee Enfield. service rifle from a British soldier home on furlough in Nenagh. This gun ...
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WS Ref #: 1547 , Witness: Michael Murphy, Commandant IRA, Cork, 1921
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... ROINN COSANTA. BUREAU OF MILITARY HISTORY, 1913-21 STATEMENT BY WITNESS. DOCUMENT NO. W.S. 1547. Witness Murphy 40, Belmont Park, Ballinlough Road, Cork. Identity. Commandant, 2nd Battalion Cork No. 1 Brigade. 0/C, Cork No. 1 Brigade Active Service Unit. Subject. Activities of B. and C. Companies ...
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... a Dublin man to shake up your intelligence service., down here". We then adjourned to our homes I having ...
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... application for service as a secret agent of the Castle and his acceptance as such by the Castle authorities ...
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... service of the Y.M.C.A. He was manager of the large grocery premises of Woodford Bourne & Co ...
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... 37 on 5Sh February 1921, William O'Sullivan, a water-cock in the Cork Corporation and an ex-British soldier, was shot and killed in Tory Top lane. On 16th February 1921, Charles Beale, a Y.M.C.A. senior secret service agent, vas shot and killed. On 19th February 1921, Michael Walsh, Douglas Road ...
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... expressed horror at what he saw. Meanwhile, all our intelligence service vas alerted for information ...
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... as a secret service agent for the British. He invariably went for a drink in the Rob Roy Hotel in Cook St ...
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... Battalion since March 1919: Service 0/C. Number of men. Engineers Gerald Daly 30 Intelligence Frank ...
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WS Ref #: 127 , Witness: James Doyle, Survivor of Clanwilliam House Garrison, 1916; Member ASU, 1920 - 1921
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... ROINN COSANTA. BUREAU OF MILITARY HISTORY, 1913-21. STATEMENT BY WITNESS DOCUMENT NO. W.S. 127 Witness James Doyle Identity Member of C/Coy. 3rd Bn. I.V. I.R.B. A.S.U. Subject (a) Mount St. Bridge Area, Easter Week 1916. (b) Custom House Action, May 1921. (c) Active Service Unit Conditions, if any ...
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... 11 Membens of actins Service Unit Dublin Brigade a Meeting of old Members of the Unit was Called about the Year 1934 (is Peneime) and this Cist was made Out. I am not able to Say if it is Correct or Complete. Patrick Flanagan Office in Charge. James Gibbins. Adjuant Michael White. James Brown ...
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... . Squad Patrick Lawson G.H. Squad Jerry Robinson G.H. Squad James Gibbine Adjacent A.S. Unit. James Harper A.S. Unit. George Gray A.S. Unit. James Heeney A.S. Unit. J Muldowney A.S. Unit. Peter Ratuliffe A.S. Unit. Joseph Grullholy A.S. Unit. Patrick Evene A.S. Unit. Christy Fitzsimons A.S. Unit. Jack ...
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... , Who was also A member of the unit Barricke at 17 Goat Strand Street this was a Carye Stones ... had the same No - 17 The Complete Unit Meet at 17 Strand Street on the Morning of the 25 & May 1921 ... Forces about a Week after burning of Custom House, and one Member of the Unit (Michael Stephenson) who ...
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... of the Circle was serving With. Con Colbert Inquned of Me, as to What Unit I was Attached to Imformed ...
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WS Ref #: 387 , Witness: Patrick O'Daly, Lieutenant Fianna Eireann, 1913 - 1916; Lieutenant IV, Dublin, 1913 - 1916; Member ASU, 1920 -1921
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... ROINN COSANTA. BUREAU OF MILITARY HISTORY 1913-21. STATEMENT BY WITNESS DOCUMENT NO. W.S. 387 Witness Major General P. Daly, 41 Nass Road Inchicors, Dublin. Identity. Officer Commanding Squad and Active Service Unit. Subject. (a) National events 1917-1921; (b) The Squad and the A.S.U. Conditions ...
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... ananer I gavo tzaa the active life I led from the tms I ouie out of jaU until the Truce. The of fiatal acewor nan giv tho taThers t1zn £liabaol 1line wilted the Squad and the Aotivo Service Unit igother ... organination and It acted direot]y un3or the iiOe 0.0., Oscar Traynor. With *ie unit carrying out ...
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... to shoot anbody, even if we knew he was a unless no had to do it in oolf-d6f0000 while on active service ... the position was doing to be retifiod by the formation of an Intelligence Hranch, an Aotivo Sorvice Unit ...
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... on out of that. de you never want a drink yourself?" They got through al1tiht. The unit remained active until twelve noon on the day of the Truce. In tact there vas a section at Ballsbridge post office ...
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... aad seven kilaad, ofla niornbor of tho Squad and six mezbur of the Active Sorvieo Unit. The oriinal ... the Squad aid the Aotivo servioe Unit were amalgamated into one under the command of mynelf We had ...
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... efter Bloody Sunday ... 49 The Activo urio3 Unit ... 64 Attempted train ambush so Killester ... 65 ...
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... were moznbere of the nd ttalion ri3oia their unit for thlo operation, but ho did not inolude ...
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... fort ion ptain Iddy flanagan roeined and took no further part vzi12i the A.O.U. He remained an active ...
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WS Ref #: 573 , Witness: Robert Purcell, Member ASU, IRA, Dublin, 1921
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... ROINN COSANTA. BUREAU OF MILITARY HISTORY, 1913-21. STATEMENT BY WITNSS DOCUMENT NO. W.S. 573 Witness Robert Purcell, 26 Swilly Road, Cabra, Dublin. Identity. Member of 'A' Company Fianna Eireann, 1917 Member of A.S.U. 1921. Subject. The Active Service Unit, Dublin City, 1921. Conditions, if any ...
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... out any further ambushes. I joined the Active Service Unit on 27th May 1921 to fill a vacancy ... . commander was Jim Cahill. While I was with the Active Service Unit I took part in ... casualties occurred in the A.S.U. it was usual to have replacements provided by the unit from which the men ...
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WS Ref #: 596 , Witness: George Nolan, Member IV, 1916 - 1920; Member ASU, Dublin, 1921
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... ) The Active Service Unit 1920-1921. Conditions, if any, Stipulated by Witness. Nil File No. S.1848 Form ...
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... Service Unit: Some time very near Christmas 1920 my Company Commander sent for me and told me that an Active Service Unit was being formed in Dublin and that it would be a full time job, adding that he had ... that we had been selected to form an Active Service Unit to operate against the Crown Forces ...
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... STATEMENT OF GEORGE NOLAN. CONTENTS. Page 1. Easter Week 1916. 1 2. Company re-organised 1917. 2 3. Burning of Income Tax Documents. 3 4. Active Service Unit. 3 5. A.S.U. attack R.I.C. car Holles St. 4 6. A.S.U. attack on Col. Winters' car Thomas St. 5 7. A.S.U. capture military ambulance. 5 8 ...
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... : The operation area of No. 4 Section of the Active Service Unit extended out to Clondalkin. The Crumlin road ...
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... Squad and the Active Service Unit would also take part. Michael Collins was also present ...
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... was with the Active Service Unit I returned to my old Company "A" Company of the 4th Battalion and took part ...
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... in Company tactical exercises. It was only some time in 1919 that the Company again became active. Its ...
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WS Ref #: 728 , Witness: Joseph O'Carroll, Member Irish Citizen Army, 1916
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... CONTENTS. Page 1. Police disarmed at Three Rock Mountain. 1. 2. I.R.A. Guard for Executive Meeting of I.R.A Leaders. 2. 3. Bloody Sunday 2. 4. Active Service Unit 3. 5. Attempted rescue of Seán MacEoin 5. 6. Auxiliary Officers ambushed at Capel Street Bridge. 5. 7. A.S.U. arrest I.R.A. with British ...
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... an Active Service Unit. I attended the meeting which was addressed by Mr. Oscar Traynor who ... the time we became members of the Active Service Unit. Each of us had a revolver and 20 or 30 rounds ... Service Unit which would be available day and night for operations against enemy forces in the city ...
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... to leave my job and I was on the run for a while until the Active Service Unit was formed. I was Rotary Machinest at the time employed on the Evening Herald Staff. Active Service Unit. Sometime about ...
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... 5. corner of a street running down by the side of Jury's Hotel. When the lorry came abreast of us we opened fire with revolvers and Paddy Flanagan threw a grenade Some of the occupants of the lorry were wounded. Attempted Rescue of Sean MacEoin. Information reached the Active Service Unit that Sean ...
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... . on a date early in 1921 members of the Active Service Unit raided the Globe Hotel and the Hotel ...
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WS Ref #: 1584 , Witness: Patrick A ("Pa") Murray, Commandant IRA, Cork, 1921; OC Cork City ASU, 1921
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... . The ambush was not successful. The Active Service Unit: At this time, word came that Tom Crofts and other ... to the city, where it was proposed to start an active service unit in the city itself. The active ... -21- The Active Service Column: About the end of December 1920, it was decided that a column would ...
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... . Activities of 'C' Coy., 1st Battn., Cork 1 Bgde., I.R.A., Active Service Unit 1917-21. Conditions ...
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... followed into it. For the first few weeks that the active service unit was in existence, we were actively engaged watching the movements of military and police. The members of the active service unit ...
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... being made, was also arranged. Most of the work of' the active service unit during this period consisted ... was to be made by each unit in the division, to carry out an attack on Saturday, May l4th. The A.S.U ...
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... , the I.R.B. section of the Volunteers became very active again in 1917. We received instructions ... . In that way, it was felt that. the active members of the I.R.B. would have control of all the arms ...
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... 19th, 1920. This operation was not assigned to any unit in particular, but was carried out by any ...
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... -24- Twomey became mentally affected, and he asked me to take him out and shoot him. I pretended to do this, and got in touch with some members of the unit. In the meantime, I continued to Walk outside the city with Twomey, and eventually we got him home. During this time, Kelly had gone up ...
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... who were not members of the I.R.B. were as active in collecting and raiding for arms as members ...
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WS Ref #: 1656 , Witness: Daniel Healy, OC ASU Cork, 1921 -1922
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... ROINN COSANTA. BUREAU OF MILITARY HISTORY, 1913-21. STATEMENT BY WITNESS. DOCUMENT NO. W.S. 1,656. Witness Daniel Healy, 2, Upper Panorama Terrace, Sunday's Well, Cork. Identity. O/C, Active Service Unit (Cork City). Subject. 'C' Coy., 1st Battn., Cork No. 1 Bgde., I.R.A., 1917 - 1922. Conditions ...
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... Formation. of Cork City Active Service Unit. Harly in April, 2921, an Active Service Unit ... cab. He was shot by members of the Active Service Unit. General attack 0n Barracks. On 24th June, 1921 ... a period of three or four weeks, the arrangawent was altered and the Unit consisted 0r six men trot ...
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... . of the Active Service Unit at the tine. Some short time afterwards I was told by Martin Donovan ...
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... I then turned into Columbus Avenue, passed the block of flats where Connors had lived and on to the next block. From there I zig-zagged ff5' way until I came to the subway station at 79th Street, Broadway. I was followed by a unit as far as the subway, but was lucky to be able to board a train ...
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... , military and police who stayed at, or visited, the Club were known to our Intelligence Service ...
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... , 1920, we received information from our Intelligence Service that a Senior military Intelligence ...
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WS Ref #: 1672 , Witness: Thomas Meagher, Adjutant IV and IRA, Kilkenny, 1917 - 1921
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... ' Coy., 7th Battn., Kilkenny Brigade Active Service Unit, 1917 - 1921. Conditions, if any ...
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... and experience of an ex-British soldier named James Kelly who was a member of the Active Service Unit. His ... and to have it conveyed to the Active Service Unit. That took me some time longer than I had estimated ... Dunamaggin. Hogan and Eamon Alyward, who was then in charge of our unit, decided to join forces ...
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... was appointed Battalion Adjutant and about the same time I became a member of the Active Service Unit. Three ... was a bit of a mystery. During a visit to the Piltown area in South County Kilkenny, the Active Service Unit, with about twenty Volunteers from the local (8th) Battalion, occupied a farmhouse ...
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... 7. unit had with enemy forces at Tubrid and in which my comrade in Waterford Prison, Pat Walsh of Dunamaggin, and Sean Quinn, another member of the Active Service Unit, were killed. That was on 14th ... their barracks except when they moved in powerful convoys. The last position we occupied as a unit ...
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... such as providing guards and guides for the Battalion Active Service Unit which had been formed whilst I ...
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