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  • WS Ref #: 1340 , Witness: J.R.W. Goulden, Son of RIC man who was engaged in Tourmakeady Ambush, Mayo, 1921

    • ... Slevin Willie Billington (Postmaster, Tourmakeady) Newspaper accounts, especially Mayo Mews ... Willie Billington (the postmaster) were brought to Robinson's. He was kept under guard at the Post ...

    • ... was Moloney's shop (Catholic) and the post office run by Willie Billington and his recently-widowed ...

    • ... suriver of the first can) constable fed Donaghue constable sceoin Willie Billington (Postmaster ...

    • ... 8 On the early morning of the 3rd may 1921 the I.R.Q. occupied the villagh of Tourmakeady in exfectation of a convoy to provision Dernagh ante station All the indatitants escult Willie Billington (the Portmaster) were brought to Robin sons He was beft under guard at the post officer to answer ...

  • WS Ref #: 1393 , Witness: Edmond McGrath, Commandant IRA, Tipperary, 1921

    • ... -7- at Burncourt Castle where they remained for that night. Treacy told me that he wanted to get to Mitchelstown, to see Willie Ryan there and that he intended to go from Mitchelstown via Limerick ... to Willie Ryan, the man Treacy wanted to see. It was, I think, some months later before I met Sean Treacy ...

  • WS Ref #: 1448 , Witness: Patrick Breslin, Officer IRA, Donegal, 1921

    • ... Willie Sharkey, now deceased, followed the two retreating R.I.C. men on his bicycle and kept firing ... . on the Burtonport Road were: Dan Sweeney, Dan Walsh, Jeff. O'Donnell, Willie Sharkey, James McGee, John McCole ...

  • WS Ref #: 1475 , Witness: Patrick Kinnane, Commandant IRA, Tipperary, 1921

    • ... brother, Willie, had gone home after the dance in Upperchurch. They searched for Tom and, failing to find him, they took Willie out of the house and shot him dead, on the roadside. ...

    • ... -25- over. Willie Gleeson, brother of Thomas Gleeson, also went to his home after the dance. On that same night, the R.I.C. murder gang left Thurles barracks and went to Shevry barracks. From there, they went to Ryan's of Curraduff, and found Michael Ryan in his home. He was ill at the time ...

  • WS Ref #: 1513 , Witness: Bernard Meehan, Lieutenant IRA, Sligo, 1921

    • ... named Millar from Ballyshannon. As a ruse to get Millar to drive us to Dublin, Willie Gilmartin had ... Conway, Willie Gilmartin and myself got instructions to mobilise our Company and have them assemble ...

    • ... release from internment, the Volunteer Force was again organised in the Cliffoney area. With Willie ... to organisation and training. Early in 1918, prior to the General Elections, in the company of Willie ...

  • WS Ref #: 151 , Witness: James Ryan, Member IV, Clonmel, 1916

    • ... where we met more prisoners, P. J. Moloney, Willie Benn, L.J. Dalton, Willie Ryan, Tom Rodgers ...

  • WS Ref #: 186 , Witness: Thomas J Doyle, Member IV, Dublin, 1916

    • ... , the mobilisation orders went out. The officers were ffrench-Mullen, Captain, Willie Pearse was 2nd Lieutenant, Ted Kelly was 1st Lieutenant, and Liam Ó Broin. Willie Pearse went on to Headquarters ...

  • WS Ref #: 280 , Witness: Robert Holland, Member IRB, Fianna Eireann & IV, 1909 - 1916; Member IRA, Dublin, 1917 - 1921

    • ... leave my memory, as I saw Con Colbert, Emanon Ceannt, Willie and Phil Congreve, lobar McBride, Pleader Doyle, Gerald Doyle, Mick Hayes, Willie Corrigan and scores of others in derision being pointed ...

    • ... and Willie Pearse there. They gave us a talk on the grounds of the College and they showed us Philpott ...

    • ... -5- of the Irish Volunteers to His Majesty The King, a general mobilisation of the Irish Volunteers Irish Volunteers of the Inchicore area was called for the Fifteen Acres in the Phoenix Park. Larry Kettle and Bob Page spoke at this meeting and advocated recruiting for the British Army but Willie ...

    • ... there were Willie cosgrave, French-Mullen, Seamus Murphy, a Lieutenant Murray, a Lieutenant Egan ...

    • ... , still alive) and Philip Cosgrave (brother of Willie Cosgrave and told them my mission. They immediately ...

  • WS Ref #: 307 , Witness: Thomas McCarthy, Captain IV, Dublin, 1916

    • ... was Father Gleeson, and Kepple's mother asked him to look after Willie but Father Gleeson never saw Willie in the battlefield, and I never had a line, postcard or otherwise, from him and I think neither ...

    • ... was a member of the I.R.B. at that time. There was a further proposition and a man called Willie Byrne ...

    • ... -16- The Captain of each. Company of the 4th Battalion was invited out to afternoon tea at Old Bawn. Cathal Brugha, Willie Pearse and Eamon Ceannt were there. That was on a Sunday, a fortnight before the Rebellion, and it was there that each man who had to take charge of the different place a got ...

  • WS Ref #: 317 , Witness: Maud Gonne McBride, Founder Member, Sinn Fein, National Council and Inghini na hEireann

    • ... and a letter from Willie Yeats in London - "You certainly have succeeded". It was only then I ... XXVII of my memoirs and Arthur Griffith and Willie Yeats drew up the programme. The ...

    • ... ever admitted, as did Willie Yeats and Arthur Griffith and a good many other young I.R.B. men when ...

    • ... prisoners were released I was allowed to come as far as London on my passport. Willie Yeats, who bed come ...

    • ... . I did not always bring the children with me. Willie Yeats, who had become a member of a rather ...

    • ... , who, through Willie Yeats, had got a job as librarian in the School of Oriental Studies, stayed ...

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