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WS Ref #: 663 , Witness: Joseph Dolan, Member 'The Squad', IRA, 1921
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... . The Active Service Unit were also on the job, but some of them did not arrive having been cut off ... of the Active Service Unit couldn't turn up to me as they were cut off by military patrols, and the same thing ... it Was decided to call the whole thing off. Just as it was called off two members of the Active Service ...
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WS Ref #: 429 , Witness: Thomas Flynn, Captain IRA, Belfast, 1921; Member Brigade ASU, Belfast, 1921
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... unlikely. In the year 1921 picked men from each Battalion were organised into a Brigade Active Service Unit. This unit is not to be confused with the first unit (Battalion) formed. The Brigade unit ... and brigade Active Service Units. Among the operations carried out by the A.S.U. were the fo11oing: burning ...
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... and day. We found that this unit could afford fairly good protection to the Nationalist portions of our ... occurrence in some of the city areas. The ordinary Nationalist civilian did not take an active ...
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... , lectures and manoeuvres in the country. The first activity of an active military nature was the burning ...
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... . The after curfew activities by P.I.C. and others, included raiding for and arresting active I.R.A ...
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... for service as a Flying Column in County Cavan. In preparation for these men going to Cavan, their arms ...
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WS Ref #: 1617 , Witness: James Hayes, Officer IRA, Laois and Offaly, 1921
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... it to Bailycrystall where Ned Brennan assembled the rifles and distributed them to the Active Service Unit. Road ... cleared out of the town and gone 'on the run'. We there and then formed these men into an Active Service Unit and appointed Edward (Ned) Brennan of Tullamore as O/C. of the Unit and Michael Calvin as its ...
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... Brigade who, with his Active Service Unit, was then in billets about three miles from Portarlingtcn. I ...
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... from G.H.Q. to keep my armed men active, for to permit them to move around aimlessly would have a most ... and myself left immediately for the Walsh Island district and warned Ned Brennan and his unit who were ...
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... Service Pensions Board subsequently refused to accept my statement that Mullens at any stage held ...
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... , 1921, for service with the proposed new Column. I was also instructed to procure telephone ...
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WS Ref #: 1110 , Witness: Peter Browne, Officer IRA, Kerry, 1917 - 1921
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... was to discuss ways and means of organising an active service unit. This had been decided several times previously and it was the general opinion of those present that the unit should be organised ... use in Volunteers going on active service as a unit unless they had an organisation behind them ...
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... 49. In this month (May) Rathmore unit carried out a successful ruse and successfully ambushed a party of R.I.C. and Tans near the village. The Rathmore unit were helped by men from Scartaglin, Cordal ... have been equally as strong. The Cumann na mBan were also very active in this period in the battalion ...
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... Without the knowledge of the Brigade or Battalion Staffs, or at least without their active support ... and they were most active but got no co-operation from the battalion or brigade. As an example of these unit activities: in the autumn of 1920 about eighty men from the Ballymacelligott Company with about ...
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... of the information obtained. In This period (May) all unit officers were whole-time men. Only occasionally could ... service that no pressure could be put on was intelligence. This service worked well within our own ...
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... the whole county of Kerry. Each parish had its own unit organised on company lines, viz. half companies ... and into the autumn. The Redmondite split, as it became known, had a serious effect on the strength of the unit about ...
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... 18. through everything minutely nothing incriminating was found. To keep the Volunteers active our ... was secluded and the old people were ardent and active Sinn Féiners. Their two Sons, Pa and David, were active Volunteers and the two daughters were active in Cumann na mBan. It was a house that was always ...
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... the following January. Though the Volunteers were active during this period there was little ... , September and October 1920, there were plenty of company activities to keep the men active ...
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... Brennan, also a curate at that time in the Kerry Diocese, were both very active in the Siam Fêin ... for some years. He was active in the Gaelic League, Chairman of East Kerry Sinn Fêin Court since ...
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... who were active as officers in 1916 had grown tired, some were worried and had other responsibilities. Younger and more active men should replace them. These were the problems facing the training ...
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... a great favourite with the more active Volunteers in the company and especially with the Connor ...
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... was appointed Quartermaster to the brigade. He was young and most active. There was a noticeable push ...
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... Volunteers from the battalion, along with an active party specially selected, were in the attack ...
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... dropped in. They should, of course, be young and active. It also meant instant delivery day or night ...
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... of the Auxiliaries and as well as being a daring soldier he was ruthless. He was most active and had ...
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... 51. of rifles available this meant bringing two or more battalion columns together. This meant delay and a lot of organising. Each battalion column, except when there was reliable information regarding enemy movements, kept their columns active by occupying sniping positions along the main enemy ...
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... the party we expected went by Limerick. The battalion had been very active for the past few ...
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... . At their head was Hrs. Powell (mother of Eugene Powell) and her children. (Did the secret service pass ...
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... of his service in the Volunteers, was behind in his farm work. These sentences were given and taken ...
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WS Ref #: 1298 , Witness: Patrick Doyle, Officer IRA, Wexford, 1921
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... " was pinned on him. Towards the end of October, 1920, the Brigade decided to form an Active Service Unit ... Brigade and the South Wexford Brigade. As a result of this reorganisation the Active Service Unit ... the unit. Some days later and before they had the unit completely organised, Whelan was arrested ...
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... that the Carlow Acteve Service Unit had been surprised by British Forces and that four of the Carlow ...
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... They were told to go home and to be ready at a moment's notice to report for service. I went home. Tornwent to Enniscorthy to report and get fresh instructions. He was to come back that night, hut he did not do so until Monday, when he told us the Rising was over - that the Volunteers in Dublin had ...
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WS Ref #: 894 , Witness: Thomas Deignan, Commandant IRA, Sligo, 1919 -1921
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... of experience which we were lacking at the start. An Active Service Unit or Flying Column had been ... grenades which was a serious disadvantage. This unit was available to reinforce a Brigade Active Service Unit when necessary. An intelligence section was organised within the battalion but this had ...
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... 9. police were killed in this ambush. The police burned a number of houses and shot livestock in that area as a reprisal for the ambush and altogether created a reign of terror complex, in the district. Two bf the police who were most active in the burnings and reprisals travelled to Dublin ...
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WS Ref #: 1531 , Witness: Michael Smyth, Captain IRA, Kildare, 1921
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... 13. The Battalion Active Service Unit was started in April, 1921, and Martin O'Neill, Ballymore ... our Active Service Unit and another in West Wicklow, which was under the Dublin Brigade, and I met ... , in connection with the Active Service limit. In May, 1921, the Battalion Adjutant, Matthew Cardiff ...
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... 14. the enemy engaged in that district. Raids on mails and Post Offices, and also raids for the destruction of Belfast and British goods were carried out. At Battalion Council meeting on 3rd July, it was decided to form a second Active Service Unit and on my way to meeting of same I was arrested ...
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... 4. Memorial Hospital, Curragh. He was attended by Dr. L.F. Rowan, Tcildare, who was arrested after Easter Week. As a result of this accident the R.I.C. became very active in Athgarvan district. In accordance with instructions from GH.Q. we had a parade on St. Patrick's Day, 1916, and afterwards had ...
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... active in each district and I visited the Companies for inspection and training. I arranged ...
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... of the enemy. The Military and Black and Tans were very active in our area after the ambush and a number ...
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WS Ref #: 1587 , Witness: Daniel O'Keeffe, Captain IRA, Tipperary-Cork, 1921
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... of the arms and ammunition from it. In the autumn of 1920, a battalion active service unit, under ... . J. Luddy, Jerry Clifford and James O'Mahony were members of the active service unit from its ... 20. service men coining into the area. I cannot recall having come in contact with any ...
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... , appointed to an active service unit or become a casualty. Our activities then became almost full-time ...
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... a unit of National Volunteers with their headquarters in the A.O.H.. hall. We who remained as an Irish Volunteer unit were mostly young men, mainly shop assistants in the town and some farmers" sons. James O'Neill took charge of our unit. Sergt. Gleeson, the instructor, also remained with us. We ...
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... Volunteer unit, All parades cancelled. Volunteers. completely deceived. Signed, Eoin McNeill ...
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... 13. us in the years 1920 and 1921. To finish with the period up to the Rising of Easter Week, I would like to place on record that, with the exception of the Galtee Battalion, there was then no properly organised and armed Irish Volunteer unit on a line from Limerick to Cork. I learned later ...
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... unit on the other The Hotcb1iss gun, with Bolster and Willis as its crew, was posted. on a slight ...
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... 4. Ward was an ex member of the British army and had seen a lot of service in India. He had, a voice: like a trumpet and was a marvellous drill instructor. He remained with us for only a short period, and another ex British army man, a Sergeant Gleason, who, through his marriage, had some local ...
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WS Ref #: 1117 , Witness: John O'Riordan, Member IV and IRA, Kerry, 1917 - 1921
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... , formed an Active Service Unit within the Tralee Battalion. The mambere of the A.S.U. were composed of men ... . I becama a member of the Active Service Unit on its formation and as I lived only a few doors away ... hecame active again under a new set of officers who ware Jeremiah Hanifin, Captain; John Roran, 1st ...
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WS Ref #: 896 , Witness: Edward Moane, Commandant IRA, Mayo, 1921
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... Service Unit, of which he himself took, charge personally. All of the Brigade staff were on the Active Service Unit and we carried the Brigade Headquarters Office around on our backs. Communications from ... 16. each Battalion Unit and assisting them in training and so forth. Each Unit occupied ambush ...
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... to organise a small Active Service Unit in each Battalion at this time. This would be late in the harvest time of 1920. Each Battalion Unit was solely under the command of the respective Battalion Commander ... Service Rifles and a few single shot Martini Rifles and five or six revolvers of service pattern ...
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... 13. A number of us were now living on the people so to speak as we moved from house to house and locality to locality. In this way, the people grew accustomed to looking after us and to take care of the Active Service Unit which came into being later on. Every-where we went we were welcomed ...
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... of a column themselves. While Intelligence Service in the Brigade had not reached the standard that one would such service ever does, it certainly did good work. The ordinary people kept us posted ... in Louisburgh; Constable O'Brien and D.I. Maguire in Westport rendered very valuable service to the cause ...
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... 14. throughout the country, and it was very pleasant to realise the extent of the Volunteer organisation and how it could act as one Unit throughout the land. A consignment of one hundred and fifty gallons of petrol arrived, at Westport Station for Anthony O'Malley of the Sound. The R.I.C. took ...
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... this the column remained together as one unit. A few evenings prior to the 19th May we occupied the town ...
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... been very active in that area, beating people up and generally acting the bully and terrorising ...
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... 3. strength was about eighty all told. We now had one service rifle in the Company, and some individuals had sporting rifles of different types. We paraded. and marched and trained as usual every Sunday. The O'Rahilly visited Westport in March 1916 and addressed the Volunteers on parade. There were ...
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... members of the. Cumann na mBan although in the British prison service, so we were amongst some friends ...
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... 20. men were some of the best armed in the column, all having Service rifles. We arrived at Kilmeena just before daylight and took up a position on the east side of the road. Michael Stanton and I were out on the Newport flank of the position about, three hundred yards or more from the main body ...
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... had not been with us at Kilmeena. We had eighteen Service rifles and some single shot rifles-about ...
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... boxes of "egg bombs" and Mills hand grenades and. about eight or nine revolvers - short service pattern ...
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