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WS Ref #: 1678 , Witness: William T O'Keeffe, Staff Officer IRA, Mayo, 1920; ASU Manchester, 1920 -1921
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... ROINN COSANTA. BUREAU OF MILITARY HISTORY, 1913-21. STATEMENT BY WITNESS. DOCUMENT NO. W.S. 1678. Witness William T. O'Keeffe, Convent Road, Claremorris, Co. Mayo. Identity. Staff Officer, 3rd Battn., South Mayo Brigade, I.R.A. Subject. Active Service Unit, Manchester, 1920-21. Conditions, if any ...
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... the South Mayo Active Service Unit. Here our conversation was interrupted as a shot rang out. Somebody ... the entire Active Service Unit was surrounded at a hall in Erksine St. and captured after a stiff ... and also the death of the Brigade Adjutant, Michael O'Brien, and a serious wound in the arm to the Unit ...
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... Claremorris and district who were members of the Manchester Active Service Unit during the years 1920-21 ... which resulted in the death of Seán Morgan. They received terms of imprisonment ranging from five years to penal servitude far life. Paddy Donohue, Unit Commander, was also taken prisoner. Before ...
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... staying there was Mrs. Dempsey's brother, a member of a cork Active Service Unit, recovering from ... were not aware of the facts of it. Police were very active during the day - anyone with. an Irish ...
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... . Accompanied by a brass band, a well dressed unit of the British Army would be on show and appeals ... and leadership the company became a very efficient unit. He was a regular visitor to our cycle shop ... unit. Many times I watched a pair of handlebars being removed from a bicycle to insert a dispatch ...
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... 7. While working at the Ford Motor Company at Trafford Park, Manchester, I came to know the brothers Michael aid Frank Ryan of Weaste, Salford, and in August, 1920, we formed a unit of I.R.A ... , Barney Igoe, Tuam. While with this small unit I took part in a raid for rifles supposed to be stored ...
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... . and British military, the active members of the Claremorris Company were removed in one night to be interned ...
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WS Ref #: 1706 , Witness: Sean O'Connell, Officer IRA, Cork, 1921
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... ROINN COSANTA BUREAU OF MILITARY HISTORY, 1913-21. STATEMENT BY WITNESS. DOCUMENT NO. W.S. 1706. Witness Seán O'Connell, 23, Ardmanning Road, Togher, CORK. Identity. Capt., 'G' Company, 1st Battalion, Cork No. 1 Brigade. Member Of Cork City Active Service Unit. Subject. 'G' Company, 1st Battalion ...
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... opponents right up to the time of the Truce of July, 1921, at which time I was still an active officer of "G ...
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... 9. Shooting of Enemy Spies. A feature of the struggle in Cork was the effective manner in which the I.R.A. dealt with persons who were known to be spying for the enemy. flue to the excellent Intelligence Service set up in each Battalion and Company area, it was possible to bring those informers ...
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WS Ref #: 1710 , Witness: Liam Forde, Brigade Commandant IRA, Limerick, 1921
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... , Irish Volunteers, Limerick City 1916. Subject. Mid Limerick Brigade and Mid Limerick Active Service Unit, 1921. Conditions, if any, Stipulated by Witness. Nil. File No S.907. Form B.S.M.2 ...
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... Brigade areas, the Active Service Unit in the area in which the ambush was to take place might ... -operation of the Mid Limerick Active Service Unit with his, for an attack that was contemplated ...
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... . and as exagerated account of the number killed Reference was made to every (I.R.A.) Active Service Unit ... of our unit when we heard the cracking of rifles about a quarter of a mile away. Se4n Carroll and a small section of our unit had billeted with a few of the East Limerick unit where the shooting ...
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... exchanged. We had only fourteen men; the remainder of our unit had billeted some considerable ... not rush our small unit; it might be due to a faint-hearted officer, or, perhaps, they were ... of our unit were wounded - one slightly, and the other had a bullet through his wrist) until we reached ...
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... unit, and the other two to the East Limerick unit, We had lost six men in the two engagements ... Limerick unit, or what was left of it, started out on the journey to our own area. We were supplied ...
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... 19. the other side of the road, and negatived their outflanking movement. Contact was not made at this stage with the East Limerick unit, and, worst of all, our guide had disappeared. We took ... unit. We saw no more of the enemy from the moment we reached the sloping ground. I think it is only ...
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... 7. Limerick. Gubbins then asked that as he could not now hope to reach limerick in time f or the insurrection he should be assigned to a Dublin unit. McDermott replied that his place was in Limerick, and that a lorry was about to leave Dublin for that city. (Colivet had asked for a couple ...
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... Limerick area, and I also formed a unit at Tomgraney in Co. Clare. Having formed the companies I went ...
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... in the work of forming a second Volunteer Unit, in the City - ignoring the existence of the 1st ...
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... 27. the cattle opening just as we got back Having found our man, the five of us (Seán Carroll, Bob de Courcy, Paddy Barry. Power O'Mara and myself) retreated in the direction of Lisnagry bog. Due to the delay in our search for O'Mara, we lost touch with the remainder of the unit. Having reached ...
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WS Ref #: 1392 , Witness: Edward John Ryan, Lieutenant IRA, Tipperary, 1921
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... Council decided to form an active service unit, and after appointing Ned O"Leary, Nenagh, as commander ... in the brigade. The active service unit, which first met on 22nd October, 1920, at Seymour's in Arderoney ... between 22nd October, 1920, and 2nd November, 1920, the A.S.U., as the active service unit came ...
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... STATEMENT BY EDWARD JOHN RYAN, 3, St. Patrfrk'53 Terrace. Nenagh. Co. Tipperary, formerly a member of the No.1 (North) Tipperary Brigade Active Service Unit. I was born on 23rd June, l894, in the townland of Tyone on the outskirts of the town of Nenagh. After having passed the junior grade ...
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... 16. Sometime early in February, 1921, the commander of the active service unit, Ned O'Leary, was transferred back to the brigade staff, this time as adjutant, and Was replace& by Jack Collison, Moneygall, later killed in the Civil War. Before leaving the A.S.U. O'Leary made another unsuccessful ...
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... 22. Though I had to go 'on the run' after coming out of the Nenagh military barracks, the condition of my health did not enable me to rejoin the active service unit for six or seven weeks. My first experience was to receive a severe reprimand from the brigade staf4 for my connection with the rescue ...
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... but no attempt was made to burn it. Next day he moved the whole unit out of the district ...
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... O'Meara and Christopher Gaynor, both active members of the Nenagh Company. arrived out at my place ...
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... 5. used to remove the local Irish Volunteer leaded arrested after the 1916 Rising and in connection with public drilling. The Nenagh Compaq, in which by the end, of 1919 I held the rank of 1st Lieutenant, had obtained a few Lee Enfield service rifles by seizing them from British soldiers home ...
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WS Ref #: 608 , Witness: Patrick ("Ninepence") O'Connor, Member ASU, IRA, Dublin, 1921
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... by our Company officers to join a new unit which was to be known as the "Active Service Unit" of the Dublin Brigade. He said that this unit was to be available for full-time duty for twenty-four hours ... was to be in charge of the Active Service Unit. Following this meeting a parade of the Active Service Unit took ...
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... 13. A.S.U. seize Motor Tyres. During the summer of 1921 three members of the Active Service Unit ... that the Custom House was burned the full Active Service Unit, I think, was mobilised at the Lotts, South ... that some sections of the Active Service Unit would operate outside the building and that other ...
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... at Ashtown that did not 5. materialise. British military policemen disarmed. 5. The Active Service Unit. 6. 6. A.S.U. attack Auxiliaries Bachelor's Walk. 8. 7. A.S.U. attack British courtmartial ...
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... , 1921, a big number of the Active Service Unit were detailed to da-rail a troop train at St. Anne's ... of the Active Service Uhit who were armed with grenades, fired them at the car and brought ...
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... . This was regarded as a major operation as the entire Active Service Unit, Squad and Intelligence ...
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... . When we saw that the 3ob had been carried out quietly and successfully we withdrew. The Active Service Unit. On St. Stephen's Day, 1920, I Was instructed by Paddy Houlihan, my Company Officer ...
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... towards the end of June, 1921, the entire Active Service Unit was mobilised to shoot up Auxiliaries ...
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... 15. A number of the Active Service Unit were picked by various Intelligence Officers for various places. Joe Dolan selected me for Kidda Restaurant. The shootings were timed for Six o'clock, but we were to be in the restaurant a short time before that. As we were about to enter the restaurant ...
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... of the Antiv1e Service Unit, including myself, waited for this car in the vicinity of St. Peter's ...
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... job with the Active Service Unitwas an attack on Auxiliaries in tenders at Bachelor's Walk ...
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... succeeded in joining this 'oup later that evening. The unit was about 24 strong and was commanded by a man named O'Reilly. Members; of his unit identified me and I had no trouble in having myself accepted. This Volunteer Unit had already erected two barricades at Cabra Bridge. One barricade was used ...
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... of the volunteer Unit, assembled us all and told me that as I was near home I should proceed ...
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WS Ref #: 503 , Witness: James Cahill, Member IRB and IV, Cavan, 1914 - 1917; Member ASU, Dublin, 1921
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... by Headquarters officers, concerning the proposed new unit. It was to be designated the Active Service Unit ... of the A.S.U. to relinquish their occupations and to devote themselves entirely to army service;. The unit ... not remember the exact number of their best men for transfer to a special unit that was about to be organised ...
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... . Paddy Flanagan was appointed O.C. of the unit. On 1st January, 1921, I reported for active service ... ceased to play an active part in the struggle. Our own casualties in the Quay ambushes were two wounded ...
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... 19. Drumcondra, with a section of the railway line displaced, the Active Service Unit in full strength was awaiting the arrival from the North Wall of a trbop train, when along came a small empty goods train which slowly came to a halt with the engine hanging crazily over the embankment. Failure ...
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... in Cavan. I think that the Ballina Company was the only unit in the county. Father Dolan, St ... to the confusion caused by conflicting orders issued from Dublin, the Company took no active part ...
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... in an untenanted shop in Fleet Street, adjacent to Crown Alley, awaiting orders from the unit O.C. We were ...
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... 17. the unit to be at full strength for a big operation that was planned. Ultimately he granted me two days leave, with strict instructions that I must be back and available for duty on the third day. That was the day that be anticipated the operation would take place. Arriving home I found that my ...
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... necessary to recruit twenty or more men from the Dublin Brigade to bring the unit up to strength ...
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WS Ref #: 389 , Witness: Roger McCorley, OC Antrim Brigade, IRA 1920
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... of the two Companies, would form an Active Service Unit. The outstanding men in this Unit were Josephy ... favourably disposed to active service unit activities. However, we ignored this influence. We decided that the next operation of the Active Service Unit should be an attack on the Balck and Tans ...
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... potential officers for a few days’ service with the Active Service Unit so as to Bee bow he re-acted to the strain of service with that Unit. This was a very Successful innovation since it insured that only ... much better. This Active Service Unit system continued until the Truce, after which the type ...
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... and exit in the prison. During this period the Active Service Unit were carrying Out their ordinary ... with the Active Service Unit. I was able to co-ordinate ordinary duties in the let Battalion with duties in the Active Service Unit. About this time we decided to abolish the system of electing officers ...
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... . The Active Service Unit were then called and attacked the Black anti Tans in Arthur Square, Belfast ... of them was to keep the party under Observation. The other was to make contact with the Active Service Unit which was generally waiting down in McDevitt’s premises on 5, Rosemary Street. After this scheme ...
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... . The importance of this operation lay mainly in the fact that it was from this party that the active service unit was formed in Belfast (See notes on A,S.U.) From this point an, the younger element ...
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... of them unscathed. Unfortunately most of the regular members of the Active Service Unit bad by this time ...
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... Intelligence Service. One of the main factors in the success of the I.R.A. was the Intelligence Service. For what must have been the first time in any country certainly the first time in Irish history the 3ritish Intelligence Service Was not only outwitted but completely broken. Belfast ...
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... Intelligence Officer. The three most important men in the Intelligence Service in Belfast were :- (1 ...
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... of rifle and bad the advantage that they were the same calibre as the German Service rifle. A considerable quantity of German Service rifle ammunition was picked up from time to tine in Belfast. It had been ...
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... Service have any personal contacts with those agents. We even went so far as to tell our Intelligence Service that they were to give no particulars to any of us concerning the names or any other ...
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... with whom contact was made in the 2nd Northern Division was the Vice-Commandant of that Unit, Daniel ...
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... 16. Headquarter Barracks of the R.I.C. in Belfast. The Detective Headquarters was also in the immediate vicinity. My difficulty was that ‘C’ Company, of which I had been Captain, had no got sufficient service pattern revolvers to carry out an operation of this sort. I had asked for the assistance ...
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... and revolver. (3) ‘C’ Class Specials: These were unpaid and were only called up for Service in Special ...
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WS Ref #: 581 , Witness: Christopher Fitzsimons, Member ASU IRA, Dublin, 1921
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... who was detailed to row us across was not at the point we were directed to. The Active Service Unit: I was selected very early in December, 1920, for transfer to the Dublin Brigade Active Service Unit ... decreed that a full-time active service unit was to be formed to combat the activities ...
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... that so many men of the Active Service Unit and the Squad were present, the reason being, however ... on the services of Nos. 1 and 2 Sections of the Active Service Unit. ...
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... STATEMENT BY MR. CHRISTOPHER FITZSIMONS. CONTENTS. Page. 1. Burning of R.I.C. Barracks at Raheny. 1 2. Belfast Boycott. 2 3. Police Duties. 2 4. Raid on Boats at Alexandra Basin. 3 5. Bloody Sunday. 4 6. The Active Service Unit. 5 7. Michael Collins searched by British military. 6 8. First daylight ...
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... of the Active Service Unit were to carry out their rescue. I cannot recollect precisely what ...
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... for three days and suffered pretty severe handling from the Auxiliaries. The men of the Active Service Unit, the Squad and 2nd Battalion captured as a result of the burning of the Custom House ...
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... , the Company took an active part in confiscating goods and merchandise that had come from Belfast and were ...
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... -3- Each patrol consisted of about six to twelve men. The idea of these patrols was to try and maintain law and order in the districts concerned. The D.M.P. had ceased to take a very active interest in protecting public property and prohibiting Street fights and brawls, so it was decided ...
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WS Ref #: 1687 , Witness: Harry Colley, Officer IV, 1915 - 1919; Adjutant IRA, Dublin Brigade, 1920 - 1921
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... the Active Service Unit of the Dublin Brigade on the 1st January, 1921. This Active Service Unit ... unless the whole Active Service Unit had to be brought together for a special operation ... December and was a success. It was the first direct attack on the Auxiliary Division by a Unit ...
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... 59. Temple Bar, and later in Great Strand Street. The 0/C. of the Active Service Unit was Paddy ... of the Active Service Unit took place at Bachelor's Walk, near the Metal Bridge, on the 11th January ... that on every Battalion became active in its own particu1r area. Each Battalion 0/C reported ...
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... of the Brigade. In the latter part of January the No. 2. Section of the Active Service Unit attacked ...
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... 67. just asked me "Is this your cash?", and passed on. The next thing he produced, however, gave me a terrific shock. I collected the pay for the Active Service Unit from the Adjutant-General every Thursday, on my daily visits for payment to the men on Fridays. It had always been paid to me in cash ...
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... active service at the Front in the Great War just ended. When one remembers that each of our Volunteers ...
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... , to link up with the I.R.A. any active members they might still have. We explained our ideas and laid the foundation of very active co-operation with the Fianna and Cumann na mEan which worked ...
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... 52. to Tara Hall that night and received their instructions. It is well to place on record that Sean Russell, the O/C., explained to them that the men to be shot were members of a new secret service ... service men working for England during the recent war; that it was vitally necessary for the success ...
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... , a member of the Battalion who had been very active as Assistant Battalion Quartermaster ...
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... . An advertisement appeared regularly in "The Volunteer" for the Auxiliary as a unit for those who ...
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... . Before we had got half way along Ballybough Road the pace became terrific. I'm afraid our unit did ...
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... . It was utilised very much by the enemy for raids and arrests. Our Intelligence Service at this time ...
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WS Ref #: 1389 , Witness: Sean Gaynor, Commandant IRA, Tipperary, 1921
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... the North Tipperary active service unit as soon as they got a few days rest. Subsequently, only Hayes ... to spend a while with the active service unit, then located in Ferryglass outside Portumna. Reaching ... with the active service unit, but he insisted in taking part too.) In Eglish I met the commandant of the 4th ...
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... , and I took the active service unit during the night into the neighbourhood of that village. Scouts were ... to remove the active service unit to Ardcroney, between Nenagh and Borrlsokane. My reason for not mentioning ... the Volunteers themselves. The active service unit remained in Ardcroney from ...
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... of election by the battalion council. When this was completed, I next formed a Brigade Active Service Unit. The Active Service Unit comprised twenty men. The column might have been larger or two columns ...
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... by Med O'Leary who held the post until he was appointed 0/C, Brigade Active Service Unit in September ...
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... Battalion, Con Spain1 to mobilise fifty men tram his unit, and to the commander of the active service unit ...
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... to the commander of the active service unit the fun information I had received in Ballinderry from the scout. Our ... company, and seven of his unit equipped with shotguns. Leaving billets at four in the morning of 3rd June ...
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... , through a railway guard, Pat O'Shea, Nenagh, and also with the commander of the brigade active service unit. Generally speaking, I would say that very little information was obtained in the bmigade ...
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... having been discovered. My efforts to reorganise the brigade and to establish the active service unit ...
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... to Templemore on a motor bike and notified the commander of the active service unit, Ned O'Leary, who ...
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... -46- whether the enemy force estimated at forty men instead of thirteen as we expected, was too big a handful to tackle, but he was extremely keen on testing the active service unit in action, and so ac agreed to go ahead with the attack. At his request, I took over charge of the operation ...
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... and active preparations were being made to resist conscription. Nationalist opinion and indeed lots ... into the service of making pike heads. ...
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... , but Headquarters now set out to build the Volunteer force on proper army lines. The unit of the Volunteers ...
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... -45- points were detailed to act as snipers and to cover up the other parties, should the necessity arise. Their positions are also indicated in sketch. Bill Dwyer and another of his own unit were posted on top of a height, three hundred yards to the right of the main party, to act as scouts ...
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... under new leadership. I felt that, as it bad not been sufficiently active, it was better to remove ...
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... in the house after having come back from a period of service with the East Limerick Brigade, during which ...
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