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WS Ref #: 412 , Witness: Joseph Murray, Officer IRA, Antrim, 1921
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... 17. A very considerable amount of time was spent by the Active Service Unit in waiting and watching ... of the Active Service Unit and some of the Battalion officers. We, therefore decided to take, every ... of February 1921, a party of four members of the Active Service Unit saw three members of the Black & Tans ...
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... very essential in order to service the, Active Service Unit and prevent the danger of transporting arms over from one section of the city to another. The remainder of my time was with the Active Service Unit in combing the city looking for D.I. Ferris. During this period we just missed him by a matter ...
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... ) and officers of "C" Company (McCorley and myself) that we would form the nucleus of an Active Service Unit ...
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... the command of the Battalion 0.C. who himself was a member of the Guard (Active Service or full-time Unit). When this new unit was trained, plans were drawn up for an "all out" attack on the R.H.C ...
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... would force matters on the Brigade Staff either to give us their blessing to form an Active Service Unit or we would "push them out", From this period the activities of the R.I.C. and Specials were ...
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... time after the Truce of July, 1921. After the operation on Roddy's Hotel the newly- formed Active Service Unit did not get an opportunity to engage the British forces during the remaining days ...
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... of Active Service Unit and went into the city centre but we did not find the Auxiliaries. From ...
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... guards and our Intelligence Service reported the, general strengthening of such guards around the city ... . At this time the Detective Division got very active and aggressive. Their tactics were to raid homes ...
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... they stood at when the recruits started to pour in. The police became active at this period ... active pre 1916. Denis McCullough and men of his stamp were receiving a lot of police attention ...
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... , i.e. "A" Class, "B" Class and "C" Class. The "A" Class were on whole-time service; the "B" Class were on part-time service, i.e. on duty each evening and at the week-ends. The "C" Class were in the main ...
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... 10. About this time two officer appointments were made: one on the Brigade staff and one on the Battalion staff. These appointments caused a considerable amount of alarm and annoyance to the Company Officers and men, particularly the more active members of "B" and "C" Companies, for the reason ...
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... of the service. Following the shooting in Roddy's the two barmen were placed under arrest and were ...
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... 22. the R.I.C. and British Intelligence Service. I was to choose between remaining in Glasgow or go to Dublin where I may be sent to a Flying Column or to the martial law area. I choose the latter course because I would feel safer being armed and amongst friends than being unarmed and lonely ...
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WS Ref #: 1272 , Witness: James Collins, Captain IRA, Limerick, 1921
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... . a Brigade active service unit was formed. An active service unit of eight men had been in existence ... Service Unit or Flying Column were whole-time and consisted of twenty-throe men, We had eighteen rifles. a number of shotguns and some small arms. Seán Finn already in charge of the smaller unit ...
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... of the then active service unit. About this time, an old man was shot dead in a field in Shanagolden ... was located at Springmount, Abbeyfeale. He had a small fighting unit of seven men with him at the time ...
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... of the 5th, I moved the Battalion Active Service Unit from Meenahelia to the outskirts of the town ...
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... on the 11th July, 1921. Just at that hour, a 'plane flew over our positions. As my Battalion Active Service Unit was removing the mines, the three lorries arrived. The Tans all dismounted and stood ...
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... their rifles in their own dug-outs. A list of active service men in each Battalion area was prepared about ... but he left behind him the complete list of active service men in the Brigade which the enemy ...
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... . Everything was ready. We had a complete first-aid section and a signalling unit. ...
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WS Ref #: 1741 , Witness: Michael V O'Donoghue, Engineer Cork 1 Brigade IRA, 1921; President GAA, 1952 - 1955
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BMH.WS1741 PART 1.pdf, on page 87
... evening, A/Company active service unit seldom mustered more than ten armed Volunteers. Through ... active service unit students lodged, one in Sheares St. near the Courthouse, and another in Mardyke ... there, I armed myself with a large Colt .45, fully loaded, from the dump. Other active service unit men ...
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BMH.WS1741 PART 1.pdf, on page 86
... . of the regular A.S.U. City unit, small part time active service units on a company basis were, formed about October 1920. Already each of the two city battalions had its own special battalion active service ... of active service already in their home areas, and, moreover, who had with them their own small ...
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BMH.WS1741 PART 1.pdf, on page 85
... executed and this alarmed the rest. The dork City active service unit. of the I.R.A. had been ... as Board G.A.A. Secretary by Padraig Ó Caoimh, at that time a battalion officer on whole-time service ...
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BMH.WS1741 PART 1.pdf, on page 37
... that, my active association with the Cappoquin Volunteer Company came to an end. In July 1918, I again sat ... bona tides as a Volunteer of almost two years service in West Waterford. From the Cappoquin company I ... new Volunteer unit when I was struck down with the "Great Flu". It was late in October 1918 and I ...
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BMH.WS1741 PART 1.pdf, on page 88
... of active service unit men. At intervals, individuals - some old, some quite young - came ...
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BMH.WS1741 PART 1.pdf, on page 92
... dispersed and I dumped my erratic .38 gun in the active service unit dump at U.C.C. on the way back ...
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BMH.WS1741 PART 2.pdf, on page 125
... and members of the active service column had been quietly withdrawn to a strong defensive position ... in the unit were ordered to retire back to Glenveagh Castle some 25 miles north west in the heart ...
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BMH.WS1741 PART 2.pdf, on page 68
... Lehane of 'luring away' some of his most active and efficient officers from Cork City for service ... ' Callinan, Bill O'Connor and myself from Sean Hegarty's command in Cork City to active service ... . He ns not "pulling" with his fellow battalion officers and was anxious to get to an active area ...
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BMH.WS1741 PART 2.pdf, on page 130
... -txuce military service with the Volunteers were sent home. Anective service unit composed of about 30 ...
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BMH.WS1741 PART 1.pdf, on page 62
... many officers and special service men for the - active service columns not only in the three Cork ...
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BMH.WS1741 PART 1.pdf, on page 71
... and the most active were the Intelligence Service, the Engineering Service, Signals and Communication ...
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BMH.WS1741 PART 1.pdf, on page 183
... to a resumption of active guerilla warfare against the British occupation forces at any moment ... service launched an intensive drive based on battalion training camps to bring this special service ...
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BMH.WS1741 PART 2.pdf, on page 43
... and son-in-law, a Captain Woods. The latter, a British Secret Service agent, confessed to firing ... in a panic. The sequel was tragic. Several prominent loyalists - all active members of the anti-Sinn ... listed as alders and abettors of the British Secret Service, one of whom, Captain Woods, had confessed ...
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BMH.WS1741 PART 1.pdf, on page 36
... , Besides, too, the three of them are men who have given great service as active Volunteers already ...
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BMH.WS1741 PART 1.pdf, on page 64
... told that it bad come from "His Majesty's" Intelligence Service, Victoria Barracks, Cork. Mick's ... in Cork City had been intense. The active Volunteers of A/Company did quite a lot of scouting ...
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BMH.WS1741 PART 1.pdf, on page 70
... and active service units. One company of these were in Victoria Barracks, another billeted ...
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BMH.WS1741 PART 1.pdf, on page 100
... powerful mane who resigned from the R.I.C. after Faster Week, and now an active Volunteer; Tom ... man with I.R.A. service in West Cork as well as the city, and who is now Judge Advocate General ...
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BMH.WS1741 PART 1.pdf, on page 112
... , militarily or morally, governing the activities of the columns or active service units ...
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BMH.WS1741 PART 1.pdf, on page 130
... and eager for active service in the I.R.A. The risk he was undertaking may be Judged from the tact ...
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BMH.WS1741 PART 1.pdf, on page 134
... 132. sent back men from rural columns to the city. We knew that this was true and that Mick Murphy, 2nd Battalion 0/C, had just returned to the city from a period of service with Brigade Column ... . battalions were holding down very strong enemy forces. Every active, zealous Volunteer was needed ...
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BMH.WS1741 PART 1.pdf, on page 135
... 133. accepted. At Easter he moved to Dublin. I put through his transfer promptly to the Dublin Brigade, but, alas, he was destined, to see but a glimpse of active service with Dublin before he Was captured by the Auxiliaries. I had kept the Colt .45 with ammunition in my digs in the Shamrock Hotel ...
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BMH.WS1741 PART 1.pdf, on page 155
... note for him. In the note I explained my case and, to strengthen ray claim, mentioned my I.R.A. active service in Cork. I returned to Butler's a few days later, met John himself and found him scared ...
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BMH.WS1741 PART 1.pdf, on page 168
... and inactivity while I roamed the mountain fastnesses of West Cork organising active service ...
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BMH.WS1741 PART 2.pdf, on page 11
... 195. and holster complete with Colt and quietly told them that myself and my companion were I.R.A. officers on active service in the district and that we were going to have a meal in Milner's and intended to stay there that night. Whereupon a big, rough-looking fellow blurted out angrily that he ...
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BMH.WS1741 PART 2.pdf, on page 21
... to Brigade H.Q. and resumed my normal duties of reorganising and maintaining on an active service footing ...
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BMH.WS1741 PART 2.pdf, on page 51
... on active service, A small party of five, led by Divisional Q.M. Joe McGurk, and Assistant Divisional ...
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BMH.WS1741 PART 2.pdf, on page 55
... their arms and ammunition. A grievous crime for an active service I.R.A. man who had been drilled ...
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BMH.WS1741 PART 2.pdf, on page 70
... were turned into a war zone. Our mobile republican active service units, using rifle, small arms ...
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BMH.WS1741 PART 2.pdf, on page 92
... of active service in the north. Moat or our party - Lehane, Daly, Galvin, Fitzgerald and ...
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BMH.WS1741 PART 2.pdf, on page 135
... place was with the fighting men in the active service units and not for the purpose of terrorising ...
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BMH.WS1741 PART 2.pdf, on page 179
... 361. Then one night, 5 or 6 days after my arrival in the Dorrien home, a hefty stranger appeared. It was McCullogh, the son of a fisherman family from St. John's point, who had spent a year or two working In Dublin and was now back home. Re had I.R.A. service in the metropolis and was now active ...
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BMH.WS1741 PART 1.pdf, on page 110
... was secretly proud that I was an active fighting man in the republican forces. The first night of my a rrival ... active in the local I.R.A. compary. Gerald, the elder, gave me an outline of thea ctivities ... abandonment. Paddy O'Reilly of Youghal, at that time a very active and much-wanted I.R.A. fighter ...
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BMH.WS1741 PART 1.pdf, on page 6
... then in force; but the days of O'Donoghue's service in the R.I.C. wore drawing to a. close. In 1905, after the minimum 25 years service for pension purposes, lie retired with station-sergeant's rank ...
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BMH.WS1741 PART 1.pdf, on page 159
... 157. sent me to the university. Prue enough, an my energies and my enthusiasm were directed not to any university career but to the service of my country in her hour of mortal need. And the Waterford County Council refused to recognise that service to the nation. Two years later, that self-same ...
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BMH.WS1741 PART 1.pdf, on page 178
... in the engineering service found the going satisfactory for our reorganisation plan. A Battalion Lieutenant of engineering. was appointed to take charge of the engineering special service in each of the five ...
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BMH.WS1741 PART 1.pdf, on page 186
... though battered-looking trench-coat (the all-service type worn by British officers in the Great War), a pair of heavy brown gaiters - my own strong brown boots were alright for army service. ...
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BMH.WS1741 PART 2.pdf, on page 49
... and reorganise the I.R.A. in the area, I established the nucleus of a Special Engineering Service. It was tough going, for, as tar as I could see, no Special Service of the kind had existed in the I.R.A. here ...
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BMH.WS1741 PART 1.pdf, on page 4
... of the "Invincibles". there suet have been a unit of this secret society in Thurles. Order came from ...
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BMH.WS1741 PART 1.pdf, on page 20
... to be had locally, then he would arrange to organise an unit of the Boy Scouts (Fianna Eireann ...
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BMH.WS1741 PART 2.pdf, on page 65
... , rank, I.R.A. unit of holder typed thereon, the authority to enter Four Courts at all, times ...
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BMH.WS1741 PART 1.pdf, on page 25
... drafted into the English army, prepared for active. resistance. The access of numerical strength ...
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BMH.WS1741 PART 1.pdf, on page 48
... alarmed about my own extraordinary position. Here was I now in Cork,, an active member of the Irish ...
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BMH.WS1741 PART 1.pdf, on page 49
... and that stern work now would be the portion of the active Volunteer. The 'spectacular rescue of Denis ...
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BMH.WS1741 PART 1.pdf, on page 56
... , there were five active I.R.A. college students of A/Company. Hence it was convenient that the practice ...
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BMH.WS1741 PART 1.pdf, on page 63
... character full of humour and good nature and, moreover, an active I.R.A. man attached to the Blackrock ...
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BMH.WS1741 PART 1.pdf, on page 95
... O'Connell, a middle-aged lodger working at Insurance, and an active Volunteer in the 2nd City Battalion ...
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BMH.WS1741 PART 1.pdf, on page 102
... activities or eased off in his active military opposition to the Crown forces as a result of His ...
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BMH.WS1741 PART 1.pdf, on page 157
... 155. "What the hell brings you to those parts"? he asked. "Business, and important business at that' I replied. And then I told bin of my quest, for Terry was an active Volunteer in the Cappoquin Company while at Kenny's. When I related my encounter with the young barmaid and my failure to get ...
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BMH.WS1741 PART 2.pdf, on page 19
... and our attitude (we being three active I.R.A. officers) made a marked impression on the older club ...
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BMH.WS1741 PART 2.pdf, on page 27
... and the average young, active, adventurous I.R.A. man began to got bored and restless from ...
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BMH.WS1741 PART 2.pdf, on page 40
... 224. army in the civil war and was, I believe, very active and envenomed against his former I.R.A. comrades. Back in Bandon, I was involved in a curious episode in which a Black and Tan figured. The Essex Regiment and Tans had evacuated Bandon and were now quartered in Cork, This Tan, a radio ...
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BMH.WS1741 PART 2.pdf, on page 58
... a slight leg wound, the other serious. A Temporary man named Doheny, an active and experienced ...
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BMH.WS1741 PART 2.pdf, on page 67
... active as an engineer officer in the Dublin Brigade I.R.A. He had got some back pay from the Corporation ...
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BMH.WS1741 PART 2.pdf, on page 77
... and Bernard, being active I.R.A. man. Here we ate again and drank some s tout and I San pled a little ...
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BMH.WS1741 PART 2.pdf, on page 90
... . for a rest. This was a great republican house, the brothers Kelly being active I.R.A. men ...
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BMH.WS1741 PART 1.pdf, on page 2
... O'Donoghue, was an it R.I.C. sergeant of 20 years service at the time. He had served as R.I.C. constable ...
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BMH.WS1741 PART 1.pdf, on page 45
... . Meantime, I had returned to University College, Cork, and resumed Volunteer service with A/Company, 2nd ...
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BMH.WS1741 PART 1.pdf, on page 51
... me God". The O/C. sat in uniform behind a table on which lay before him a Lee-Enfield Service rifle ...
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BMH.WS1741 PART 1.pdf, on page 131
... Majesty's postal service for the safe despatch of guns and ammunition to rebel I.R.A. gunmen. Who would ...
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BMH.WS1741 PART 1.pdf, on page 133
... for service in the country and had actually from time to time ...
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BMH.WS1741 PART 1.pdf, on page 141
... in a mechanical engineering workshop to make them suitable for filling and service. I placed them ...
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BMH.WS1741 PART 1.pdf, on page 154
... of the British Civil Service being now very valuable. Easter came end I went home to Cappoquin. my main object ...
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BMH.WS1741 PART 1.pdf, on page 176
... -adjustment of the brigade engineering service. The brigade area was now about one half of its former ...
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BMH.WS1741 PART 1.pdf, on page 185
... to the British Intelligence Service. The veil of secrecy and mystery was drawn aside and Ireland's ...
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BMH.WS1741 PART 1.pdf, on page 187
... service with Barry's column. Our pony's name was Mickeen - to distinguish him from the three other ...
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BMH.WS1741 PART 2.pdf, on page 7
... . service I never had any problems about a clean underwear supply until I landed in gaol at the end of 1922 ...
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BMH.WS1741 PART 2.pdf, on page 14
... was the Commandant, to sharpen up and expand the engineering special service. I hid been promoted ...
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BMH.WS1741 PART 2.pdf, on page 36
... 220. for the Engineering Special Service in the Brigade. The 4th Battalion (0/C. Tim O'Donoghue) had its H.Q. at a large mansion (Conner's, Manch House) a few miles west of Ballineen. Thither I hurried to put the engineering services of this battalion through its paces in a series of night ...
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BMH.WS1741 PART 2.pdf, on page 75
... 259. the membership, service and background of all our northern armed personnel in the republican garrisons, and any soldier among them whose career was questionable or unsatisfactorily verified was disarmed and dismissed. Many of these promptly Joined the Free State army. Sean Lehane had appointed ...
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BMH.WS1741 PART 2.pdf, on page 80
... of the Executive forces inactive service in Ulster and the three von wider our orders. The 0/C. expressed his ...
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BMH.WS1741 PART 2.pdf, on page 107
... in front, carrying service rifles, Con Crowley and Willie Healy (both unarmed) next, and I, wearing slacks ...
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WS Ref #: 1490 , Witness: Roger Rabbitte, Officer IRA, Galway, 1921
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... that the formation of an active service unit was first discussed. I remember clearly that a meeting ... to go on active service but ordered to stay at home in my own area and keep the company going as a unit ... companies who would be ready and willing to go on full-time active service if and when called upon ...
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... and surely a British soldier was a far easier target. There was an active Sinn Féin Club in the Kiltevna ...
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... of the Volunteers were members of the Sinn Féin Club and took a very active part in the canvassing ...
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WS Ref #: 1233 , Witness: Declan Regan, Member IV and IRA, Waterford, 1914 - 1921
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... in a cave on a hillside where the republican active service unit used store their arms and ammunition. Many a time I helped, with my father-in-law, John Terry, in ferrying the active service unit across ...
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WS Ref #: 1264 , Witness: Bernard Sweeney, Member IV, Leitrim, 1917-19; Officer, IRA Leitrim, 1921
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... Leitrim Brigade, I.R.A. Member of South Leitrim Active Service Unit. Subject. Raid for arms near ...
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WS Ref #: 508 , Witness: Dermot O'Sullivan, Member Fianna Eireann, 1913; IRA, Dublin, 1921; ASU, 1921
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... . (a) National activities 1913-1921; (b) Formation of Active Service Unit 1920; (c) Ambush of Black and Tan ...
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... would hate to think that if one did what the result of the bomb attack would have been. Active Service Unit. Some time in December, 1920, four of us were paraded by the Company Commander and were instructed that it was proposed to form an Active Service Unit and that he had selected us from ...
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... , as members of the Active Service Unit, were clearly defined on that night. All I do remember was that I ... . los. a week by way of an allowance. The unit was divided up into four sections, one and two ...
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... reprieved from the Death Sentence, or who were serving a long term service. (Signed) Diosmund O'Suilleabhain ...
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... Prendergast and Seán Kennedy. At that particular time the Company was not very active. It paraded weekly ...
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WS Ref #: 883 , Witness: John M McCarthy, Commandant IRA, Limerick, 1921
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... . At this early period its formal designation was "Active Service Unit"', but it was generally referred ... a unit for whole-time service sounded strange in a situation so circumstanced, the aspect or the proposal which appeared utterly fantastic in the prevailing conditions was that the unit would not only ...
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... with his British unit in France, was killed in a skirmish as a member of our I.R.A. Active Service Unit early in 1921. With the coming of the Volunteer "split" in the autumn, l914, the members ... became acute, some of them gave extremely good service in the I.R.A. In fact, one of them, John ...
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... . There are a number of active service men who go round in small beads but these appear to spend their whole times ... headed by William Aherne in very active. (Riverstown) is being plundered by members of the I.R.A. The residents are not reporting these occurrences. This Battalion is not otherwise active. 2nd (North ...
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... conclusion as what I had written was addressed to the Active Service Unit giving the Clancy funeral arrangements and detailing how a firing party was to be provided by the Unit. Rolfe retained this document ...
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... I.R.A. unit and Active Service Column. He more or less attached himself to me throughout ...
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... half completed, was a despatch intended for the Active Service Unit (the Flying Column). I saw ...
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... -62- personal affairs and getting such supplies as needed in the way of clothing and so on, I left the Presbytery in the morning following the raid and made my way to Martinstown a few miles distant, to meet the Active Service Unit and attend Commandant Clancy' s burial in that townland. I had sent ...
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... APPENDIX "H" (Ferry Pager) ON ACTIVE SERVICE E. Lk. Bde. 12. I. '21. REPORT BY VICE BRIGADIER To 0.C., E. Lk. Bde. I. I wish to make the following report to you and for transmission to G.H.Q ... burdens on the civil population increased by the fact that we formed the first active service corps ...
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... the accepted framework’ and linesof action of the organisation. Indeed, when first f&med, the active service ... othersof his generation who gave the’ Vàlunteer’ movement allegiance’ and1 devoted service, his ... by&elections in igi found him specially active in - raising fundsin aid of the Sinn Fein candidates ...
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... the idea of the Flying Column or Active Servcè Unit, the GalteeBattalion Flying Column composed - of Volunteers giving whole$ine whole$ine serviceas a unit, having beenthe firsttits’ kindin the I.R.A. organisation. As is nowsowell known, the ActiveService Service Unit system, onceit becamewidespread ...
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... , if not active supporters, at least sympathetic to what the Volunteers represented. This disposition ... , certain townlands and households came to be selected time after time for billeting the Active Service Column. While "new ground" was broken and "strange" houses availed of on occasion, the frequency ...
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... , a unit which-calls ‘for - the ,earliestandmost-active fdrniations in special nention -here, not only ... of the East Limerick Brigade, and as an Officerof the Brigade’s ActiveService Unit tooka .prominent part in the many actions in whith the unit was engaged.- His previous contributions to ANCOSANTOIR ...
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... -40- At some date in the course of this year the local unit (Kilfinane) acquired its first Service rifle a Lee- Enfield .303, for which I paid £5 to a soldier of the Australian Forces who ... and I used t for instructing selected members of the local unit in its mechanism, aiming and handling ...
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... were teetotallers, those who were not practically became so for their period of service with the unit and loyally obeyed the strict "no drinking" rule. This was all the more notable in view of the conditions under which the Column operated. The members of the unit got no cash payment whatever ...
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... . With the initiation of the Active Service Column - now accepted as the first of its kind - to its credit ... Volunteers on the opposing side who later, when the dispute was healed and forgotten, took any active part ...
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... . Clancy, a native of Gush, near Kilfinane, was very active in the movement arid a first-class ... with that unit on its initiation and had then taken up an appointment as Creamery Manager near Newmarket ...
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... weeks. Practically all the members of the unit being "on the rut, this in effect merely meant ... , an important consultation took place between representatives of the six most active brigades in Cork ...
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... were British reservists left us, being called up for service. I remember. one particularly decent and popular Munster Fusilier reservist, named Barrett, being escorted by the unit and band marching ...
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... -31- During the greater part of this year the Galtee Battalion operated more or less as a component unit of Limerick City Brigade or Regiment. It was some kind of informal arrangement, the origin ... would be a more fitting word - inducing others to enlist for service in France. I include this document ...
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... sections of the unit went through a seemingly purposeful series of tactical evolutions, transmission ... beyond its merits. This sequel arose in connection with my Military Service Pension claim. Subject ...
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... Commander, later attaining office as Brigade Commander and finished with a record of active service ...
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... declare our troops on active service. 6. To ask G.H.Q. if anything is available in discipline arising ...
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... that of the. shelter freely,given the members of the various active service units—that the loyal‘support ... occupation to give whole-time .and single-mindedpolitical and military service to his country’; his tact ...
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... Volunteer unit in Kilfinane This would have been at the end of 1913 or in the opening months of 1914. From then until the Volunteer "split" towards the end of 1914 the activities of the local unit followed ... in the unit at this time, so far as I can remember, that is ho say, there were no Company officers. Executive ...
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... the mobilisation. In any event, I went ahead with the arranged parade of my unit that morning. I may ... unit moved off. No further message did. arrive and our Company, some 30 strong, moved off ... these instructions we marched back to Kilfinane where, in dismissing the unit, I gave orders for a further ...
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... calling out four of the nearest members of the unit, including the 2nd Lieutenant, Patrick O'Dea, I ... an hour - possibly two hours. There being no sign of the Ardpatrick unit, I returned to the town to see how the mobilisation of my own unit was proceeding and there found another despatch rider bearing ...
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... at the time of tracing from day to day the routes followed by the Column and indicating where the unit ... on the map indicates the routes followed and the inked crosses denote where the unit found billeting ... beforehand or on arrival of the unit. This officer would then allot billets, K(l) Appendix 'J°. K(2 ...
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... . 2nd Bn. has been active trenching roads. ...
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... to be active. The following address was found written on the well I.RA. in the West. He calls ... of Nicholas O'Dwyer) took part in the Brunes ambush, He is at present very active. Mick Slattery of Newtown ... . do. Dea or O'Dea. of Pallas. do. Martin Deagan Clonmore Dovea is an active rebel. He is reported ...
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... the young adult people of the locality were either members of the Irish Volunteer unit or more or less ... of l9lL1 and the early months of 1915 the Kilfinane unit of Irish Volunteers continued to be loo5ely ...
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... - in fact, the impossibility - of quietly calling out a unit in a police garrisoned small town at 2 ... me to request surrender of my arms and any held by the unit. As he knew I possessed a revolver ...
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... of the unit were selected men, willingly and enthusiastically submitting ...
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... (or this column) operate in inactive areas and as far as possible from Enemy Active Bases. 1 ... . To make week ending 23.1.21 a very active week. 5. Intelligence was discussed at some length. 6 ...
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... of Nenagh but are not very active. The 3rd Bn. Column is in the hills around Toomevara ...
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... active during the past Week and is; probably in the Comeragh Mountains north-east ...
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... of the Republican Army which is in great measure only a part-time-service militia. The Flying ...
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... -3- selections, were the unit of the competition and it was subsequently County Champion Team for many years. The locality as a whole has in fact a remarkable record for such a circumscribed area in the field of sport and athletics, having produced many record holders, including World (Olympic ...
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... he visited, including my own unit. Beyond affording the police an outline of our organisation ...
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... for this camp arose, I think, partly from the fact that the area and its Volunteer unit was by now well-known ...
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... -17- 1916 nothing remarkable took place in our area. We held our weekly parades and now and then a route march on Sundays. Such training as was done on these occasions never went beyond "extended order" drill and, more usually, was confined to "close order" foot drill. In that, at least, my unit ...
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... some contact with the Limerick City unit ("regiment" was its title at the time) though whether he ...
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... . the Sinn Fein and Volunteer organisations. His own unit (Kilmallock) had a poor reputation among ...
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... and Scanláns of Galbally Company, a unit having links with the Tipperary formations, situated ...
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... of Galbally Company, who may have been the Captain of that unit at the time, it happened that I ...
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... -72- impart local military intelligence likely to interest the Column and provide sentries during the resting periods of the unit and later guides for route-finding if necessary. On occasion, in localities with which it was familiar, the Column might make its own arrangements for accommodation ...
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... to re-join, however, when the unit re- assembled after a brief disbandment. Resentment ...
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... was that the members came to the unit already well grounded in essentials - ability to use their weapons, a rough ...
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... by his captors, and because of which he promised to do them no harm when he re-joined his Unit ...
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... -88- Another change of direction was now made in the vicinity of Sheerin's Cross and the Column turned to the east traversing in the opposite direction the route previously followed after the capture of the aeroplane. Veering south through Elton (see map) the unit continued towards the Co. Cork ...
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... . Office No Signature Copy No Unit or Formation. ...
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... Weekly Intelligence Summary - 6th Division. Distribution List ek ending Copy Unit or Formation Address. Acknowledgment No. Date. General Headquarters. 5th Division. 7. Admiral C-in-Chief Dublin District. Chief of Police. 8. Gen. Staff 6th Division. 9. Q.M.G., 6th Division. 10. A.A.G., 6th Division ...
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... for long in the absence of support, active or passive, by the treat bulk of the genera]. population ...
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... of a. service: rifle - intimidation of intending R.I.C. recruits. 40 17. Peace conference appeal ...
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... operated - discipline, administration, training and local intelligence service. 75 35. Drumkeen ...
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... . C.2. Original printed copy of G.H.Q. instruction on formation of Intelligence Service dated 1st ...
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... terminated and remained in that service until his death in Cairo some years ago. This relative, being ...
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... condit1ions of organisation and service. Also, in our area, there were exceptional circumstances to be allowed ...
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... hostile intelligence and the actual. hostile reaction was usually, in conjunction with our frequent moves, the cause of our escape. As time went on, however, it was noticable that this time-lag grew progressively shorter, denoting either a gradual improvement in the opposing intelligence service ...
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... an appointment in the Civil Service. This access to police telegrams was one of our channels ...
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... , it was a sphere for which he had great aptitude and in which he gave magnificent service. To choose ...
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... for the attacks on Police at Farranfore and Castleils and on the 8th Inst. The 3rd Bn has been active ...
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... unit of tile Brigade, it wascarried put under the auspices of andwith the co-operation of, Brigade ...
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... The drive failed to round up the I.R.A. Unit which has been operating in that area, yet there is no doubt ...
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... of the Flying Column which has been active in N Kerry for some tiny past Two of the most dengroug ...
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... . The mostdistant of the two, the EastLimerick unit Was mainly concerned in this approach march." By the day ...
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... centenaryexpedition expedition under Mr. Harrel, now reinstatedin the Government Government service ...
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WS Ref #: 1388 , Witness: John Hackett, Officer IRA, Tipperary, 1921
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... by the active service unit, and on a Wednesday evening marched across country to Shinrone, Ballingarry ... of the brigade active service unit, Jack Collison, notified the officers of the 2nd battalion that he ... fixed up the billets. The active service unit contained about twenty men, and we decided to ...
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... with the other section of the active service unit. By nightfall, all the unit were comfortably ...
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... of the fate of his friend, Jim Devenney. The brigade active service unit which disbanded for holidays ...
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... -18- distribute ten of them among the houses in the townland of Ballinlough and the remainder in Gortagarry. In the vicinity of Glenaguile was a big house owned by the Lanigan O'Keeffe family which was vacant at the time, and it was arranged that, while in the district, the active service unit ...
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... to the local publichouse and spent a few hours drinking there. Unless the brigade active service unit ...
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... , the company came into possession of a service rifle - a short Lee Enfield. It was taken from a British soldier ...
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... to him for twenty-six years continuous service in the British Army. The two R.I.C. men who were shot ...
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WS Ref #: 630 , Witness: James Fulham, Member Fianna Eireann, 1916; Member IRA, Dublin, 1921
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... that the Active Service Unit intervened and carried out the ambush themselves. The Company Commander was very ... that Captain O'Brien knew beforehand that the Active Service Unit were interested in this British party but he felt that it was an operation more appropriate to the Company than to the Active Service ...
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... 2. the then current British Training Manual, also the organisatio. Extended order drill, close order foot drill and lectures on the rifle, first aid and signalling were the chief aspects of our military instruction. in addition to being a member of the Volunteer unit at that time I was also ...
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... of months. This; had the effect of completely ostracising him from his comrades and from his unit ...
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... in the British Parliament of the Compulsory Military Service Act for Ireland, an Volunteers were instructed ...
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... "mobilization". Secret Service men or their agents or touts on overhearing this word, could place ...
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... in the service rifle (Lee Enfield) but I do remember being taken out, probably twice, to a field ...
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