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  • WS Ref #: 222 , Witness: Daniel Branniff, Member Dungannon Clubs, Belfast and England, 1907; Member Supreme Council IRB, 1912 - 1914

    • ... should go by train as far as Dundalk. We travelled by the same train as far as Dundalk where I got off ... stayed with them in the previous week. I got money from them for my train fare from Dundalk to Lisburn. I got a train at Dundalk for Lisburn and walked from there to Belfast. Daniel Branniff 14/10/48 ...

    • ... Fein Club there. About this time, April 1907, a Conference was held in Dundalk, and, as a result ...

    • ... 5. the evening, and proceded that same evening by the coast road, to Ravensdale, Go. Louth. We spent the night there with friends, Joe Crilly and his wife. On Thursday, the trains were not running and we walked to Dundalk. I think we got a train to Carrickmacross, County Monaghan. We had tea ...

  • WS Ref #: 230 , Witness: John Southwell, Member IRB, 1903; IV, 1914 - 1919; IRA, 1919 - 1921, Newry

    • ... Wednesday of Holy Week, 1916, I got a message from Paddy Hughes of Dundalk "Come immediately". On receipt of the message I contacted Paddy Rankin and both of us cycled to Dundalk. When we arrived at Dundalk we saw the Dundalk Volunteers being drilled by a Dublin man named Hannigan in the Boyle O'Reilly ...

    • ... in touch with the leaders and make sure that the dispatch we saw in Dundalk was genuine, We decided ... , to Dundalk, nothing further happened on Saturday. When McCann returned I met him and he told me ... boys to Dundalk to find out any further developments. there. When they returned they informed us ...

    • ... clubs.to be held in Dundalk on 13th April 1907. We attended this conference. Delegates were present ...

    • ... 4. Sinn Foin and did not approve of the Cumann na nGael or Dungannon Club organisations. The policy of both those organisations was definitely Republican and at this time Griffith was not himself keen on the Republican idea. An Executive of the Sinn Fain League was formed at the Dundalk conference ...

  • WS Ref #: 492 , Witness: John McCoy, Commandant IRA, Armagh, 1921

    • ... that we first arrived in Drogheda. We returned to Dundalk and found both McKenna and Donnelly already in town. That night we held a Divisional Council Meeting in the Military Barrack, Dundalk, in which all ... passing through Dundalk some going South to join the pro-Treaty forces and others to join up ...

    • ... police barracks in Dundalk which were held by what he described as "Executive Forces", and demand ... was that there was no Executive forces in Dundalk or in our divisional area, that the division was united ... but we were not so sure that he would get to them or get back to Dundalk again. About this time ...

    • ... to get a feed and it was decided that all should go home to Dundalk and that Frank would get to work ... Frank that I would not return to Dundalk that evening. I intended to have an evening off duty ... and the next morning we took an early train for Dundalk. When we arrived in Dundalk Station we saw ...

    • ... . Immediately the campaign started all the Republican leaders in Dublin came into the area. As Dundalk ... . The decision to make Dundalk the centre of the administration for the election was probably based on the fact that both Sinn Féin and the Volunteers were much better organised in Dundalk area than ...

    • ... played Gaelic Football so that they were all very fit. After I became Captain I went into Dundalk and reported to the Dundalk Battalion Officers. As we had no British Ex-Servicemen available I enquired ... by Seamus McGuill who was then in charge in Dundalk that he had a most efficient military instructor ...

    • ... 34. the man's conduct in Dundalk and as far as I know his services were dispensed with by the Dundalk Battalion. Some time about the end of 1918 a Camlough Battalion was being organised. When I heard ... in Dundalk for the same time. Difference arose as to which orders they should obey and they could ...

    • ... 91. Dundalk each morning at about 8 a.m. to relieve and charge a military garrison which ... force were drawn from the Dundalk Battalion. The plan adopted for the operation was that an ambush ... ambushed. In addition to the local preparations for the ambush the Dundalk Battalion had the job ...

    • ... police barracks in Dundalk Anne Street and Bridge Street. In order to prevent any possibility of friction or unpleasantness developing in Dundalk after the split a liaison existed between the Division ... undue influences being exerted to prevent them. We were able to preserve in Dundalk the friendly ...

    • ... that it was likely to involve us in Dundalk and that was the reason we were prepared to let him and all ... that he would not risk leaving Dundalk and that he would prefer to take his chance inside as prisoner ... to go. I told him that he could send a wire that evening to his wife and get her to call to Dundalk ...

    • ... operation which was an attack on Dundalk prison and the release of all the anti-Treaty prisoners ... Dundalk prison. In planning the attack on Dundalk prison we made use of a friendly warder who took ...

    • ... surrender my two comrades and myself were removed into the Military Barracks, Dundalk. Shortly after our ... on the Castleblaney road outside Dundalk where they were attempting to force a passage through ... heard, were the only casualties in this operation. After a few days as a prisoner in Dundalk, I ...

    • ... 157. road near Dundalk on the night of l7th-l8th June. 25/6/21. John and Patrick Watters, brothers, taken from their beds an their house in Seatown, Dundalk and shot dead by armed men. 25/6/21. Examiner Printing Works, Dundalk destroyed on 20th June. 25/6/21. Derailment of a troop train reported ...

    • ... of a Boxing Club in Dundalk and was devoting all my energies to training. Amongst the members ... in Easter Week 1916 took part in the Rising with the Dundalk Corps. Although Jameson and I were good ...

    • ... 33. a that he would send him perhaps two nights per week to Dromintee to train the officers and N.C.Os. of a few local companies, and that the Dundalk Battalion was giving him a weekly salary ... the men present that he was being paid a good weekly wage for his work by the Dundalk Battalion ...

    • ... 90. gaols on hunger strikes and on the run. He was not available much in 1920 to get going on the work of the Brigade. When we took over North Louth area as the Dundalk Battalion, South Loath ... by the Dundalk and Newry Steampacket Company. So that from March, 1921, onwards we were not So ...

    • ... to take in carrying out their orders. When the Military Barracks in Dundalk were handed over by the British in Early March, 1922, the Divisional Staff moved into the Barracks. Our presence in Dundalk ...

    • ... barracks, Dundalk. The arms intended for Co. Armagh and South Down areas in our Division were also sent to us at Dundalk. Those arms in considerable quantities were sent to Northern areas by road ...

    • ... . In Dundalk Military Barracks at the end of May and in early June, 1922, there must have been about ... civilian evacuees from Northern areas in Dundalk that several large vacant houses had to be used ...

    • ... "Executive" in March, 1922, we had an immediate problem to face in Dundalk and those two Battalions held ... , John McGuill, Brigade Q.M. who were accompanied from Dundalk by a Republican non Volunteer, were ...

    • ... us. I got permission to remove the men back to Dundalk under escort which was done. A Courtmartial ... to Dundalk that evening. Various suggestions were made as to what should be done. Mary of our officers ...

    • ... L46. our officers and men were courtious and gentlemanly in their attitude to him. He sent a wire for his wife and kiddy to come to Dundalk Barracks the next day for the arranged visit. Frank Aiken returned to Dundalk that evening and informed us of his failure to make any impression ...

    • ... Dundalk outside the divisional area and to release our officers and men held prisoners in Dundalk ...

    • ... 150. to favour taking the pro Treaty side. I gave a brief resume of what had led up to the capture of Dundalk by the pro Treaty forces and I informed the meeting that if a decision to take part ... . The unanimous verdict of the meeting was to attack the pro Treaty forces who invaded Dundalk ...

    • ... . The ambush position was on a height overlooking the town of Dundalk and a large extent of country ... strength in Dundalk must have been at least 1,000 men at this time and north of our position the roads ...

    • ... then used connecting Dundalk and Newry. This road passed a few miles west of the present Dublin-Belfast road ...

    • ... person in our parish trying to propagate the new movement. In the towns of Dundalk and Newry ...

    • ... the Ulster Division in Belfast and other Northern towns. In Dundalk and other Nationalist districts recruits ...

    • ... to me any Volunteer activities in Dundalk. He probably was not in "the know" or if he was he did ...

    • ... in Dundalk. By then I knew that efforts were made to organise the Irish Volunteers. I knew several ...

    • ... that there was trouble in Dundalk and other places; no trains running, no papers, etc. etc. He had ...

    • ... 18. that we should get ready and go to Dublin and that he would offer his services with mine. We parted to get ready for the journey of cycling to Dublin and agreed to meet later at an appointed time. We started of f cycling for Dundalk equipped with some sandwiches in two small parcels. When we ...

    • ... 25. McGuill, Dundalk. About forty or fifty young men joined the new Company. A captain was appointed and we were told that we would get drilled and that our particular job during the election was to protect our meetings and our speakers in hostile areas. We were only to go to the places to which we ...

    • ... from other parts of the country, principally Glare and Dublin and some from Dundalk came into the area ...

    • ... crowd of Hibernians, principally from Dundalk area, were surrounding their tire. They were singing ...

    • ... , Dromintee, Crossmeglen and Cullyhanna were linked up with Dundalk Battalion. When the Mullaghbawn ...

    • ... been prepared and were captured on an I.R.A. officer in Dundalk about twelve months before the raid ...

    • ... 47. (c) that the R.I.C. in such surroundings might not have tightened up the Barrack defence owing to a sense of false security. The Barrack was manned by a Sergeant and five or six men. It was situated about forty yards from a cross-roads in the ton where the roads to Dundalk, Newry and Armagh ...

    • ... , Castleblayney, Dundalk, Market Hill and Keady had to be blocked by tree felling within at least ...

    • ... then hurriedly crossed some meadows until we got into the town, at Dundalk Street, about six hundred yards ...

    • ... evacuated our position at the corner and left the town via Dundalk Street. The police made ...

    • ... transferred by train on the main railway line passing through our area between Dundalk and Gorraghwood. We ...

    • ... from Dundalk was seriously wounded. I got the following facts about the operation on that evening ...

    • ... 65. all letters in post in the Dundalk area were captured by the I.R.A. arid censored. Amongst the letters censored were three addressed to him, one from his wife living in England, and two letters from two individual girls with whom he was friendly. The I.R.A. censors put his three letters ...

    • ... , Dundalk, was appointed as acting Brigade O.C. MeGuill spent most of his time in and out of ...

    • ... 93. operation it was our attempting to do too much and expecting so many men who could be classed as raw recruits to act as seasoned soldiers. The idea behind the plan was to get as many of the Dundalk I.R.A. as possible to participate in a major operation in their own area and to capture ...

    • ... and take him into Dundalk where Seamus McGauran, the man who later became Divisional Engineer ...

    • ... . McMurrain was later taken into Dundalk Military Barracks I interviewed him and informed him that he ...

    • ... the advantages. I and a few other officers from the Military Barracks were returning unarmed to Dundalk ...

    • ... to Dundalk on the l4th July. During F. Aiken's absence and about the 7th July, I received ...

    • ... that the men told him that they left Dundalk Barracks as they did not agree with our policy and they desired ...

    • ... 148. off the streets and proceeded through the demesne to Tommie Rogers place in Bridge Street. We then got a fairly accurate story of the night's happenings. Some time later Malachy and I left Dundalk and proceeded to one of our camps at Dungooley where there were about 150 of our men ...

    • ... of the other divisional officers to get them away quickly from the vicinity of Dundalk. I noticed ...

    • ... as reported in the local press in the vicinity of Newry, Co. Down and Dundalk, Co. Louth, for the months ...

    • ... when the Specials opened communications with the Military Barracks, Dundalk for a cessation ...

  • WS Ref #: 507 , Witness: Joseph O'Higgins, Commandant IRA, Louth, 1921

    • ... , similar raids having happened in Dundalk area, the Hibernian Bank was occupied by Crown Forces ... . During the time the military were in possession of the Hibernian Bank in Dundalk, Mr. J. E. Murphy came to me and told me that he was going to Dundalk to find out if the Crown Forces were able to get any ...

    • ... ROINN COSANTA. BUREAU OF MILITARY HISTORY, 1913-21. STATEMENT BY WITNESS DOCUMENT NO. W.S. 507 Witness 507 Joseph O'Higgins, Carrick Road, Dundalk, Co. Louth. Identity. Member of Irish Volunteers, Drogheda, Co. Louth, 1914 Battalion Adjutant 1920; Brigade Vice O/C. and Brigade Adjutant 1921 ...

    • ... STATEMENT BY JOSEPH O'HIGGINS, Carrick Road, Dundalk, County Louth. I went to Business in Drogheda in 1911. In 1914 at the start of the Volunteer organisation a public meeting was called in Drogheda. This meeting was largely attended and was addressed by Professor Eoin MacNeill and T.E.Kettle, M.P ...

    • ... the Salute was taken by a Mr. McGrorey, a Dundalk man, who was on horseback. Dr. Hyde had to interrupt ...

    • ... was at least provisionall formed with the Brigade Staff officers mostly from Dundalk area. I think ...

    • ... in the Courthouse, Dundalk, until after Christmas Day. The room in the Courthouse where the ballot boxes were ...

    • ... in Drogheda to welcome the County Louth men who included Peter Hughes and Joe Berrills of Dundalk ...

  • WS Ref #: 594 , Witness: Liam O'Carroll, Lieutenant IV, Dublin, 1916; Captain IRA, Dublin, 1921

    • ... -9- political prisoners. Micheál Brennan was Prison Commandant in Dundalk. We also had there with us Ernie Blythe, Diar2nuid Lynch, who was married in Dundalk Gaol, and Terry MacSwiney. While in Dundalk Gaol the main threat of conscription came, and we got orders that any prisoner who could get out ...

    • ... , to Dundalk Gaol which was used purely as a prison for ...

    • ... -10- In the course of the meetings what amounted almost to a riot developed, and the Volunteers under my charge had forcibly to separate the two meetings and eventually drive one party clean out of the town. After the meetings were finished and things quietened down, we marched back to Dundalk ...

  • WS Ref #: 1148 , Witness: Patrick J Casey, Commandant IRA, Down, 1916 - 1922

    • ... the border and got to Dundalk in the course of a couple of hours. On that same night, another party left Dundalk barracks on a reprisal mission. Some nationalist youths had been taken from their homes and were brutally murdered. When the reprisals party returned to Dundalk next morning, we learned ...

    • ... importance. It is significant to note that although this operation took place near Dundalk, few men from ... from all parts of Armagh and Down to do the work that should have been done by the Dundalk men ...

    • ... . of this effort was centred in Dundalk barracks, recently taken over by us from the British. Aiken was chosen ... activity in and about Dundalk. Thousands of rifles, sub-machine guns, grenades, boxes of ammunition ...

    • ... had been sent especially by Frank ALKELY with instructions that I should report back to Dundalk ... in Carlingford Lough, and these maintained constant patrols in the Lough. I returned to Dundalk ...

    • ... in not fighting his Division on this important occasion. He remained in Dundalk barracks inactive ...

    • ... 2. (7) Abortive attack at Plaster outside Dundalk. John McCoy, Frank Aiken, John Quinn, myself (Pat Casey), Hugh Gribbin, John Wright alias O'Rorke, and Jams Byrne of Banbridge, Pat Rafferty and Pat McAleenan both of Shinn, Newry. I was present at the main ambush position and so was Gribbin. John ...

    • ... 4. Uniform, should drive in motor cars to the barracks. In due course we arrived at the barrack door. According to, plan, Aiken went to the barrack door and knocked loudly. The door opened a little, but on a chain. The constable said: "Who goes these?" Aiken said: Lieutenant Browne from Dundalk ...

    • ... . John's, Newfoundland. As I was turning away I met an old friend, Captain Jim Higgins of Dundalk ...

    • ... 8. The following evening we arrived at Dundalk and, under cover of darkness and with the help of a bicycle, I proceeded northwards. My bicycle got punctured at Ravens- dale and I borrowed another from a friendly farmer. I proceeded towards Newry and got a bed for the night with my kinswoman Mrs ...

    • ... think the name was Johnston, owning a farm about four miles north of Dundalk at a place called ...

    • ... 23. On the way up the Dublin road I again tried to persuade our friends to abandon the journey and return to Newry, but it was of no avail and on we went. We passed through Dundalk about midnight and on through Drogheda. I began to think that my fears were unfo1unded when, at Julianstown Road ...

    • ... ! The Treaty was now a fact and, as part of our divisional area included North Louth, we took over Dundalk ...

    • ... to Liverpool by rail with my haul and crossed to Ireland via the Dundalk boat. I remember one morning ...

    • ... Dundalk Barracks on behalf of the Irish Government. Shortly after this Quinn and I were motor-cycling ...

  • WS Ref #: 161 , Witness: Donal O'Hannigan, Senior Officer IV and IRA, Dublin and Dundalk, 1916 - 1921

    • ... . On Saturday evening (one week prior to Easter) I proceeded to Dundalk by train. when it Amiens St. I ... the slip. The R.I.C. were waiting at Dundalk Station when I arrived but did not interfere with me. There was a parade of the Volunteers in Dundalk that night. Phil McMahon of Ardee and Southwell from Newry ...

    • ... mustered the Fianna Boys who had accompanied us from Dundalk and all who wore under 18 years old I called one side and told them to return to Dundalk as McEntee wanted them there. They all knew by now ... to Dundalk or going further. Apparently his main concern was to get us out of Ardee and his district ...

    • ... be trusted with any mission. On Wednesday night all Volunteers in the town and Dundalk area were ... . Before leaving Dundalk I received a dispatch from Eoin O’Duffy who was an engineer to Monaghan Co ... the Dundalk area. On the Saturday previous to this I addressed a meeting of the Volunteers in the Square ...

    • ... . In the meantime, if we had left Slane he was to follow us back the Ardee Road towards Dundalk. My idea in returning towards Dundalk while waiting was to ensure that if everything was off, that the men ... to Dundalk via Ardee, the R.I.C. from Dundalk and Ardee again following us. We arrived in Collon without ...

    • ... Howth and Ki1col (d) The Rising 1916. Dundalk area. Conditions, if any, stipulated by Witness Nil File ...

    • ... unit in the area was Dundalk - about 27O men, He supplied me with a list of the I.R.B. men in the area. I knew nearly all of them as I had taken them into he I.R.B.. He told me to go to Dundalk ... McEntee, who worked for the Dundalk Urban Council, was a very capable maxi and that, though he had ...

    • ... everything O.K. there. I then returned to Dundalk on Saturday evening. There were no further incidents ... . The Hibernians in Dundalk had some Lee Enfield rifles, but as we could not act until 7 p.m. on Sunday nigh I detailed McEntee to remain in Dundalk with five other men to procure these at zero hour ...

    • ... to the Dundalk area immediately arid make the necessary arrangements. I left Boylan with Pearse and that evening proceeded to Dundalk. From there I went to Newry and contacted Sean Southwell who was in charge ...

    • ... a further supply on Sunday morning. I returned to Dundalk on that Thursday night. The guard met me ... Hall, Dundalk. McMahon reported to me that he could not get the rifles at Ardee, but promised ...

    • ... and not to be conveyed to the men or any other person outside themselves. All the Dundalk area ... there and I returned to Dundalk. I sent again for the ...

    • ... information getting through to Dundalk which was a British garrison town; also that all transport ... left Dundalk on Sunday and were only copies, he 1ving dispatched the originals pric to I getting ...

    • ... . There was a Branch of the Fianna in Dundalk and Drogheda From Drogheda I went to Kells ...

    • ... Military Archives Cathal Brugha BKs Rathmines Dublin 6 Ph8046457, them to return to Dundalk with the horses and vehicles which we did not want further. They were very reluctant to do so, but obeyed my orders and got back safely. Some more men joined us now belonging to the party which had been ...

    • ... and it was decided that a number of the Dundalk men would go home. The remainder world be billeted around ...

    • ... Military Archives Cathal Brugha BKs Rathmines Dublin 6 Ph8046457, I decided I would have to get those rifles. I picked out 50 men and put them in charge if Lieut. McHugh of Dundalk. This party was to march to the northern entrance to the town and on hearing three whistle blasts to double down ...

    • ... carry out his mission in Dundalk under the changed circumstances. We arrived in Slane without ...

    • ... . McGettrick, who was chairman of the Dundalk Urban Council and a Justice of the peace, arrived ...

  • WS Ref #: 634 , Witness: Jack McElhaw, Captain IRA, Armagh, 1921

    • ... . Dundalk jail was pretty full of anti-Treaty prisoners after the surrender of the garrison those men ... kinds was captured in Dundalk. Our first work after the capture of the town was to remove all this surplus stuff to hidden dumps. We had not sufficient man power to hold the town of Dundalk so ...

    • ... effects on Six- Counties area. 42 32. Dundalk captured by pro-Treaty forces. 43 33. 4th Northern Division decides to fight on anti-Treaty side. 43 34. At tack on Dundalk Military Barracka and its capture ...

    • ... that they intended to attack the forces of the 5th Northern Division (pro-Treaty forces) came into Dundalk ... was still neutral. After the capture of Dundalk by Dan Hogan who was O/C of the pro-Treaty forces, Frank Aiken and many bf our Divisional Officers were put into Dundalk jail and kept there as prisoners ...

    • ... Military. A column of about 60 men composed of officer from the Military Barracks, Dundalk and men ... acting as Captain McMurrin's escort. Captain McMurrin was taken into the Military Barracks in Dundalk ...

    • ... 37. Reinforcements soon arrived ft both sides. For the I.R.A. from Dundalk Military Barracks and from Dungooley Camp. Large reinforcements from the Military Barracks in Newry and from a few ... of the girls arrest was soon reported to Divisional Headquarters in Dundalk which soon steeled ...

    • ... Barracks in Newry opened communications with Frank Aiken, Divisional O.C. in Dundalk Military ... and the fighting was called off at about 7 p.m. on Saturday when the girls arrived safe in Dundalk ...

    • ... 4. Raid for arms on Cope's: I went with Frank Aiken on a raid for arms which was carried out on a Castle occupied by a family named Copes. We travelled to this place which is situated near Armagh City in a car supplied by James McGuill, Dundalk. On our way to the place we went astray ...

    • ... closed. Seamus Lyang of Dundalk was polling clerk in Carlingford and when the booths closed we had ...

    • ... most districts in South Armagh and South Down. Dundalk and North Louth supplied a number ...

    • ... is a small town about 8 miles from Armagh, 12 miles from Newry, 16 miles from Dundalk and 9 miles from ...

    • ... in Dundalk under the command of Johnny McCoy came to within a mile of Camlough before the appointed time ...

    • ... from Dundalk to Silverbridge in Co. Armagh, and crossing the frontier about 600 yards north ...

    • ... North Louth from the Glide river, northwards, and including the town of Dundalk and the Cooley ...

    • ... 44. in the Wall" and took place on the 27th July, 1922. For at least a week after this there was little doing. About the 10th August we were mobilised at Omeath and were told to propare for a big peration which turned out to be the capture of the town of Dundalk from the pro-Treaty forces ...

  • WS Ref #: 640 , Witness: Hugh Gribben, Commandant IRA, Down, 1921

    • ... 16. Plaster, about two and a half miles from Dundalk. A guard at about thirty military were placed ... . by a relief party from the military Barracks, Dundalk, who invariably travelled by a large motor ... is a height overlooking the town of Dundalk and the roads leading north from it; the occupied house ...

    • ... was an attack on the military guard on a house at Plaster near Dundalk. Again, I was called to a meeting ... outside Dundalk the following morning, and we were instructed to collect arms which would ... and ammunition' and I and several. others, including Pat Casey, marched towards Dundalk during the night ...

    • ... , made, as far as I can remember, a statement to the effect that the Dundalk Brigade had became disorganized and that it had been decided to carry out a big operation in the Dundalk area to give the men ...

    • ... barracks; in dundalk which were predided over by Frank Aiken. At one of those meetings we were given ... material. from Dundalk into South Down area for this general attack. Provisions were also made ...

    • ... , Dundalk. I refused to obey this order and I told Miss Keelan that I had not changed my opinions since I ...

    • ... moving slowly along the road from Dundalk and only about 150 yards. away. The lorry stopped ...

    • ... stated that he would not ask us to hear arms but to simply occupy quarters: in Dundalk Barracks. I ...

  • WS Ref #: 647 , Witness: Edward Boyle, Officer IV and IRA, Down, 1914 - 1921

    • ... Faughart graveyard so as to get a view of the country towards Dundalk. whilst near the graveyard a young Dundalk man came to us and said that the ambush was called off and the position at the school ... of Dundalk. It flew over us at a very low altitude and a short time later it flew over us again ...

    • ... and transferred into Cooley area. The prisoners we took at the capture of Dundalk were all put into Dundalk prison. About the 17th August the National troops from Dublin, Drogheda, Co. Meath, Cavan and Monaghan started to converge on the town of Dundalk from different directions. When those forces ...

    • ... houses in Co. Armagh. 23 25. Civil War. 24 26. Attack on Dundalk Jail. 25 27. Attack and capture of Dundalk Barracks and town from National Army. 26 28. National Army recapture Dundalk. 27 29. Captured ...

    • ... the Military Barracks, Dundalk, each morning with a relief party of military for the guard on a house ... . The position chosen for the ambush was close to Faughart School, on the side of a slight hill facing Dundalk ... position were from the town of Dundalk and this was for them their first large scale ...

    • ... of Dundalk Town. On Sunday evening, the 13th August, 1922, I was mobilised for Dundalk Race Course for to take part in an attack on the town of Dundalk, then held by about 400 troops of the National Army ...

    • ... of at least ten miles. Civil War Period. When Dan Hogan came into Dundalk on the night of the 15/16th ... Camp. The supplies of food which we had been previously drawing from tradesmen in Dundalk ...

    • ... 25. Attack on Dundalk Jail. On the 26th July, 1922, I got orders to mobilise for an attack on Dundalk Jail where a large number of p prisoners were held, including Frank Aiken, our Divisional 0/C., and many of our Divisional and Brigade officers who were captured in the Military Barracks ...

    • ... the Military Barracks, Dundalk. This lorry first called at Cooney's, Ballymoyer, where a considerable ...

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