Displaying results 71 - 80 of 1361.
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WS Ref #: 1086 , Witness: Patrick Mullooly, Senior Officer IRA, Roscommon, 1921
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... area an active service unit or the nucleus of a column if the arms and essentials were available which ... , the empty shell had to be ejected by a hazel or sally rod. The only active service unit that I was cognizant of that could be entitled to the application of 'flying column' was the unit in South ...
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... the brigade to have each battalion establish an active service unit. An 0/C. of this unit ... or active service units in battalion areas. At this meeting battalion officers handed in the names ...
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... 42. who was confined to barracks for the duration of his service and who daily did fatigue duty, generally scouring barrack utensils in the small yard referred to. This harsh sentence as related ... no fault of theirs as at that time the same unit never occupied the barracks for more than one week ...
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... of South Roscommon, I was now handed on by each I.R.A. unit. Hearing that the enemy were about to occupy ...
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... mustered at Toberpatrick. John McManus was sent with a dispatch to the captain of the unit who ...
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... " Lannon. In Strokestown proper there was a pretty lively unit - Tom Shevlin, Marty O'Connor, Sean ...
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... the north of Ireland where they were active members of the 'Defenders1 an organisation later ...
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... 5. planned by Ernie O'Malley on Carrick-on-Shannon in 1918, not miscarried as it did, and that we had become the proud possessors of 22 Service rifles with, as McGloughlin said, as much ammunition as two men could lift, this county would be second to none. I am assuming that O'Malley would remain ...
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... and not take part in the service. The guard on the soldier patients and I, were very lax ...
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... Service. The doctor was on friendly terms with Captain McDonnell who took over charge of the Lancers ...
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... and corruption of public life which is so apparent in each government department and service of the State. Sgd ...
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WS Ref #: 607 , Witness: Joseph McGuinness, Member ASU, IRA, Dublin, 1921
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... of the Active Service Unit were mobilised for a meeting at the Plaza Hotel, Upper Gardiner Street. Present ... of the first operations of the re-organised Active Service Unit was an attack on a troop train at Killester ... and form one unit wider his control. The new organisation would follow on the lines of the old one ...
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... by the canal. On the way, we dumped our guns because of a patrol we had to pass The Active Service Unit ... that it was proposed to form an Active Service Unit in Dublin to combat the activities of British military ... was a personal friend of mine and whom I had been on many engagements with, volunteered for this Unit ...
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... CONTENTS Page 1. I.R.B. 1 2. Activities of "F" Company, 4th Battalion 1 3. Bloody Sunday 3 4. The Active Service Unit 4 5. Laundry Van Held Up By A.S.U. And Contents destroyed 7 6. Despatch Rider From Baldonnel Held Up By A.S.U. 7 7. Kilmainham Military Guard Attacked By A.S.U. 8 8. Viceregal ...
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... -13- armed escort. We also learned that, when these civilian employees reached their destination in the city, the lorry with its armed escort would return to Baldonnel. This information was passed on to the officer in charge of the Active Service Unit. As a result, he ordered Nos. 3 and 4 sections ...
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... service with the 4th Battalion was mainly devoted to drilling, parades and lectures. Early in 1919 the Company became very active in raiding for arms. I remember my section, which was No. 4 ...
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... -19- fired prematurely at the wrong train thereby jeopardising any success on the part of the Unit. When plans were ready the A.S.U. were ordered to assemble at the Plaza Hotel early in the month of June, 1921, for instructions. Paddy Daly addressed all present and told us that on the following ...
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... -time service but that, if we survived when we had achieved our object, he guaranteed we would never ...
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WS Ref #: 755 , Witness: Sean Prendergast, Member Fianna Eireann, 1911; Officer IV, Dublin, 1914 - 1916; Captain IRA, Dublin, 1921
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BMH.WS0755 section 3.pdf, on page 97
... to the extent of having a very weakened active service unit which, together with the losses incurred by the 2nd ... to reorganising the active service unit, in order to bring it up to fighting strength? With that aim ... reformed as an effective fighting unit. Included in the number were two members of our company, William ...
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BMH.WS0755 section 2.pdf, on page 203
... . That innovation, the establishment of an Active Service Unit, was aimed at putting into the fight ... important work in our Own Company". To the men duly selected he explained the purpose for which the Unit was being formed, emphasising that from that day they were on active service and would serve under ...
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BMH.WS0755 section 2.pdf, on page 202
... Company affairs. Then came the formation of the Active Service Unit in the early part of 1921. Under orders of the Dublin Brigade Headquarters, that unit was to be formed on lines similar to the flying ...
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BMH.WS0755 section 3.pdf, on page 70
... arm, Sinn Fein, were many who, although not rendering active military service, gave succour ... . Every I.R.A. unit in Dublin had its quota of such men and women supporters who were ready and willing to perform service in different ways. Their numbers were legion and of various types ...
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BMH.WS0755 section 2.pdf, on page 204
... the situation by bringing into being the Active Service Unit. In that way a new field of activity was opened ...
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BMH.WS0755 section 3.pdf, on page 47
... capacities, had an abundance of dash, enthusiasm and valour to sustain a spirit that was always active ... . Like the rest of the men and. boys who had volunteered for that unit he did not believe in giving half-hearted service. Of Flank, it could be said, that he had a charming manner, an amiable disposition ...
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BMH.WS0755 section 3.pdf, on page 146
... . as not only necessary but highly imperatival, and the act that the active service unit was availed ...
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BMH.WS0755 section 3.pdf, on page 85
... of paralysing the British civil machinery of Government. The task was entrusted to the Active Service Unit ...
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BMH.WS0755 section 2.pdf, on page 87
... that year that the Dublin Brigade was showing signs of particular activity. A new unit sprang into being, which was to play a big part in forcing the pace in military operations. That unit, which ... routine or activities. Our service with that new force did not entail severance with our own respective ...
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BMH.WS0755 section 3.pdf, on page 60
... discretion aside, engaged in rendering service to the British against the I.R.A. That was done in several and devious ways; by spying, giving information and by rendering active service. The two former ... , sensitive and large Secret Service, their Intelligence Officers, spies and informers, gained very mach ...
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BMH.WS0755 section 3.pdf, on page 179
... seen service in flying columns in active service units or with their own units. Even to taunt ... in the I.R.A. forces were men of proven ability, bravery and élan, and had given military service ...
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BMH.WS0755 section 3.pdf, on page 72
... 501. The month of April 1921 was no less an active month, as far as I.R.A. guerilla warfare was concerned. Every group and unit of the Dublin Brigade appeared to be on the alert for whatever type of operation was placed to their keeping. Accustomed as the men were to street warfare, they had ...
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BMH.WS0755 section 2.pdf, on page 220
... with the dependents' fund and in order to keep a check up on general affairs of their continued service ... by the British created many problems for every unit, large or small, in the Dublin Brigade, as it must have ...
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BMH.WS0755 section 2.pdf, on page 207
... unit who had been tested on other "jobs" or "stunts". Such jobs or stunts consisted of raids, etc., of various kinds and descriptions, in which our men had given previous service. Discrimination ... of the Company. We appreciated that in each unit there were a number of men that had already been ...
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BMH.WS0755 section 3.pdf, on page 43
... amnesty in June 1917, he renewed his service with the 1st Battalion becoming in course of time officer ... " Company, was formed, with Jerry Golden as Captain That unit was composed of selected men of the various ... to the formation of "I"' Company, the Battalion becoming a regular unit, it was known as a Battalion ...
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BMH.WS0755 section 3.pdf, on page 181
... recruits applied; proposals a before entry had to pass from the company unit or group to which ... such existed) to General Headquarters, and. befofe the recruit paraded with his selected unit, approval had ... they and their service were not new to the I.R.A. as a whole. Other Companies could, perhaps, tell similar stories ...
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BMH.WS0755 section 2.pdf, on page 205
... . as a separately and distinctively special unit under the command of selective officers and N.C.O's, that body ... but a few. Corresponding with the institution of the A.S.U., the Companies became likewise active ... of revolver and grenade. Sometimes unarmed men would accompany the active ambush party - such men might ...
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BMH.WS0755 section 3.pdf, on page 42
... Gogan, our Battalion Officer of First Aid or Medical Service, was a member of, I think, "B" Company ... for that service was Jimmy Mason, a member of "B" Company, and also a participant in the Rising of 1916 ... attached to his engineering unit, among whom was one of our Company members, Mick Howlett. ...
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BMH.WS0755 section 1.pdf, on page 157
... of one's mind, helped to keep one's thoughts and mental facilities alive and active. It became as it were ... importance that recorded the rendering of some service or some service rendered. The jailers worked ...
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BMH.WS0755 section 2.pdf, on page 217
... was perhaps the lesser but not unimportant role. They were only hors de combat in respect to active ... service which called for heroism, constancy and patience of no mean order. Like us who were carrying on the fight outside prisons and camps, the prevailing standard of service permitted of neither laxity ...
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BMH.WS0755 section 3.pdf, on page 118
... service to our men and those who exercised authority over us in the interests of our country ... to the battalion plan. Our actions were rather guided in the light that as a unit we were carrying out all orders ...
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BMH.WS0755 section 1.pdf, on page 150
... digestive organs. That is the stuff the soldiers have to live on when on active service. Poor ...
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BMH.WS0755 section 2.pdf, on page 24
... that Volunteer units were automatically placed on a war footing virtually on "active service". Full ...
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BMH.WS0755 section 3.pdf, on page 75
... 504. exacting type of duty none could deny. That could be confirmed in the case of men who might be termed the elite of the company. These were regarded as the nuclei of the active personnel ... selected from the initial stages, and as they were found suitable, were retained for subsequent service ...
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BMH.WS0755 section 3.pdf, on page 116
... , arrest or punishment. Active units of the Dublin Brigade went into camp; men of the flying columns ... service in the new form as directed. A new wave, or rather a return of the old spirit of enthusiasm ...
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BMH.WS0755 section 2.pdf, on page 60
... the way for a more perfect and permanent unit, the formation of what was to be known as the 5th (Engineer) Battalion. This unit was from selected men from various Companies, own our ("C") Company ... the Engineering Unit or Engineering Class had not the status of a separate or distinct entity, the members ...
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BMH.WS0755 section 3.pdf, on page 104
... 533. On such occasions, especially when armed, our men showed neither undue doncern or disquietude, except torn the angle that greater opportunities were not afforded them to be more active ... strong or active to be attacked by our men. We had to contend with the ever-increasing difficulties ...
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BMH.WS0755 section 2.pdf, on page 20
... of the auxiliary unit was formed - this became "H" Company, 1st Battalion. Our Company supplied many first ... at the surrender. Seumas Kavanagh held the rank of Captain in another unit in the Volunteers prior to and up ... , had been members of the Fianna, the latter two in the unit in which I had served. As mention has ...
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BMH.WS0755 section 2.pdf, on page 22
... became almost one of the first recruits to the auxiliary unit attached to our Company of which ... the auxiliary unit about the same time. Joe Stanley became at a later date a Lieutenant of "H" Company. Other members of the O'Flanagan Club that joined that auxiliary unit were, Tom O'Brien, the brothers Pierce ...
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BMH.WS0755 section 3.pdf, on page 18
... for duty on ambushing. Old and young the active and the not so active vied with one another for the work ... more for the fleet of foot, the young and the active, a fact begot by experience as many had learned ... , deigned to waive the point to admit the inclusion of others who were a bit elderly and less active ...
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BMH.WS0755 section 2.pdf, on page 121
... 333. The call offices, apart from the Republican postal service, played an important part in the administrative sphere and operational activity of the Dublin Brigade. Their functions were mainly ... . It was extremely difficult to maintain an "illegal postal service" during a period of intense widespread ...
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BMH.WS0755 section 2.pdf, on page 122
... or publications. Were they caught trafficing in, or conducting an illegal postal service ... and women who accepted this or any service if it could be of any assistance in the fight ...
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BMH.WS0755 section 1.pdf, on page 169
... the word caution, who prized honour, service and duty as the three most exalted and exalting virtues ... in the service of the under-dog, the ill-treated and the sufferer, who sought neither richesnor glory ... in Ireland's service. Many an Irish Volunteer may have misunderstood you, may have questioned your ...
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BMH.WS0755 section 2.pdf, on page 120
... was introduced about this time in the establishment of a secret post office service. Several shops in the Dublin ... . movements, That posting service received good support from the Volunteers and other groups ... on in that service on the orders of the British authorities. It was known at the time that letters addressed ...
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BMH.WS0755 section 3.pdf, on page 156
... in the matter of rendering service, of sharing honours and out of sheer loyalty to the I.R.A ... and our interests are different, just as the matter of our service appear to be different and of less ... then operating. Most of the Company Captains had open minds on the question of giving whole-time service ...
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BMH.WS0755 section 2.pdf, on page 90
... . There were other occasions when this special unit was called upon to carry out certain duties ... , that unit was destined to play a very important part in the continuing activities under various dates ...
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BMH.WS0755 section 2.pdf, on page 139
... been formed not as a separate unit, but rather for the purpose of performing cyclist training ... of the personnel attached thereto lost membership of their original Unit or Company in which ...
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BMH.WS0755 section 3.pdf, on page 122
... to their and our undoing. Every unit - our own was no exception to the average - became belligerent ... of or against the Treaty. Every unit, in the Dublin Brigade at least, was similarly circumstanced ...
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BMH.WS0755 section 3.pdf, on page 201
... for the allotted tasks. Possibly every unit, company and battalion, was represented there, some in a large ... the garrison was armed; thus it became the best armed and best equipped unit in the Dublin Brigade ...
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BMH.WS0755 section 2.pdf, on page 46
... for the election poured in from every part of Ireland, the vast majority of these being active ... . week-end visits or hurried calls there. He was a good task master, an active indefatigable worker ...
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BMH.WS0755 section 2.pdf, on page 182
... arrested were some men who had ceased to be effective and active members of the I.R.A. for years; but against this, as far as our Company was concerned, the members. arrested were all active bona fide ...
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BMH.WS0755 section 3.pdf, on page 17
... the traces which Sean's absence helped to undo. Piteously he pleaded for an active part ... responsibilities - fathers of large families and the like - some who were not considered active enough ...
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BMH.WS0755 section 3.pdf, on page 98
... of active Volunteers. Such was the system, however, that the company commanders had had to part with some of their most active men after havipg brought them through the several laborious stages of training ...
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BMH.WS0755 section 1.pdf, on page 52
... as in body; generous in their service to their parents and companions now, as they have them generous in their service to their country hereafter. We hear a very noble name and inherit very noble traditions ...
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BMH.WS0755 section 1.pdf, on page 53
... 53. brotherhood of young Irishmen strong in limb, true and pure in tongue and heart, chivalrous, cultured in a really Irish sense, and ready to spend themselves in the service of their country? Sinne ... to the service of Ireland. For four years the Fianna stood in the "battle-gap awaiting the coming ...
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BMH.WS0755 section 1.pdf, on page 55
... in the service she rendered to the poor and needy during the big Industrial Strike of 1913 when she conducted ... rise to great heights in the social scale and yet be humble in the service of people who were down ...
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BMH.WS0755 section 1.pdf, on page 98
... into Corps of Irish Volunteers for service in Ireland alone was neither encouraged nor condoned ... to the policy of recruiting Irishmen for English service. ...
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BMH.WS0755 section 1.pdf, on page 105
... outside. Many a Volunteer could tell exciting tales of such "lost, stolen and found" British service rifles and how they found their way into the service of Ireland. But some of the lost rifles were re ...
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BMH.WS0755 section 2.pdf, on page 95
... performed the service did it out of downright love for the cause regardless of risk or any token of inconvenience. In this way they performed a double service by giving themselves to the I.R.A ...
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BMH.WS0755 section 2.pdf, on page 138
... obtained for service. By these provisions we felt fairly secure. About this time also a special dispatch service was inaugurated under G.H.Q. orders. The object of this was to maintain communication ...
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BMH.WS0755 section 2.pdf, on page 140
... September when the secret service agent, Hardy, was publicly exposed by Arthur Griffith. This man, tool of the British Intelligence Service, sought contact with Michael Collins for allegedly innocent ...
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BMH.WS0755 section 2.pdf, on page 188
... the value of the service he was rendering in enemy territory and, owing to his varied absences, the duty ... he was assigned. The climax of his service in our "C Company was reached eventually on foot of some ...
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BMH.WS0755 section 2.pdf, on page 219
... or internment did not break their service nor destroy their discipline or esprit de corps. In every ... in every conceivable way to the high standard of service and duty to which these men were heirs ...
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BMH.WS0755 section 3.pdf, on page 32
... duty and service as being sacred and lofty. They proved the good qualities of an officer whose main ... lucky approach to the things that matter. We officers knew his worth, his qualities and his service ...
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BMH.WS0755 section 3.pdf, on page 61
... . These men bad voluntarily given service, time, money and labour in proof of their beliefs. Its popularity ... , tire and sword". Its adherents not only gave moral but physical service in proof of their loyalty ...
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BMH.WS0755 section 3.pdf, on page 74
... had already seen service in one capacity or another; there was a large and growing number of these whose service had been availed of too in connection with ambushing. The procedure to use the same type ...
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BMH.WS0755 section 3.pdf, on page 193
... 621. and other units of the I.R.A. were being put into service for that expedition and it was even whispered that Mick Collins approved it and collaborated, with the Four Courts Executive in its ... Dublin for service in the North. Few, except those specifically placed on the job, knew much ...
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BMH.WS0755 section 1.pdf, on page 46
... 46. of the young men of Ireland have banded themselves together under the noble name of Irish Volunteers with the intent to arm in their country's service. I am inclined to doubt the rumour. It has an air of inherent improbability. I could have believed such a report of any generation of young ...
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BMH.WS0755 section 1.pdf, on page 49
... to band themselves with us in a knightly service. We believe that the highest thing anyone can do ...
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BMH.WS0755 section 2.pdf, on page 134
... resided in their proficiency in the use of arms and. their previous war service. Every one of them were ...
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BMH.WS0755 section 2.pdf, on page 167
... his death as a token sign of service and sacrifice, being highly edified and inspired thereby ...
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BMH.WS0755 section 1.pdf, on page 115
... this was the demobilisation order which had been issued by our respective Volunteer Unit Commanders. One ...
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BMH.WS0755 section 1.pdf, on page 153
... then donducted on to the platform and our party divided in two. The party of which I was a unit boarded ...
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BMH.WS0755 section 2.pdf, on page 9
... those who were to command their unit. That practice prevailed since the inauguration of the Volunteers ...
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BMH.WS0755 section 2.pdf, on page 29
... carried out the coup! Then again, information would be forthcoming that another unit was already ...
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BMH.WS0755 section 2.pdf, on page 63
... in specialised cyclist training. Individual members of that unit were allotted to special tasks ...
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BMH.WS0755 section 2.pdf, on page 94
... the minimum sum subscribed in that way. Of course, each Company unit as well, endeavoured to supplement ...
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BMH.WS0755 section 2.pdf, on page 104
... 316. a police unit under a Battalion Police Officer. At a later date the scheme admitted of the appointment of a Company Police Officer and a couple of men to work under his orders. The Company Police Officer in turn was under direct orders of the Battalion Police Officer, and the latter under ...
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BMH.WS0755 section 2.pdf, on page 150
... such unit was ordered to parade their men that night. These were to be armed with revolvers ...
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BMH.WS0755 section 2.pdf, on page 151
... considered; every man and every unit requisitioned. for the operation was made aware of the rescue plan ...
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BMH.WS0755 section 2.pdf, on page 185
... we, every member and every Unit in the Dublin Brigade were going through a trying and tempestuous ...
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BMH.WS0755 section 2.pdf, on page 206
... in the nature of undue discrimination had to be shown in favour of any certain category of men in a unit ...
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BMH.WS0755 section 3.pdf, on page 19
... by our unit effected other neighbouring units and in consequence cut across their plans. The results ...
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BMH.WS0755 section 3.pdf, on page 68
... in the guerilla war; the company intelligence as a unit played a part second to none to any of the other branches ...
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BMH.WS0755 section 3.pdf, on page 69
... in the unit and business passed on via the company adjutant, company quartermaster, company intelligence arid ...
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BMH.WS0755 section 3.pdf, on page 71
... prior claims on the use of the premises for meetings of various groups; the former unit using ...
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BMH.WS0755 section 3.pdf, on page 77
... , and every unit mobilised to take up positions for the purpose of "hitting up all enemy transport ...
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BMH.WS0755 section 1.pdf, on page 7
... dress but because of his military bearing and generally good form and make up. He was a very active ...
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BMH.WS0755 section 1.pdf, on page 29
... young and active. Besides we were always sure of a halt on the way for refreshments and a rest ...
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BMH.WS0755 section 1.pdf, on page 41
... 41. England, Scotland and Wales, who, feeling that Ireland was being cheated out of Irish self-government were showing signs of active resentment. The idea of volunteering had stirred the imagination of quite a large section of Nationalist opinion; had opened up a new vista and created a new ...
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BMH.WS0755 section 1.pdf, on page 42
... personal active support, patronage and training to Sir Edward Carson's men. Having failed to take ...
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BMH.WS0755 section 1.pdf, on page 51
... of the Fianna that the Volunteers must be recruited. This is a special reason why we should be active ...
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BMH.WS0755 section 1.pdf, on page 54
... active part in forwarding the interests of the Volunteers. It was inevitable then that these two ...
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BMH.WS0755 section 1.pdf, on page 99
... gathered and marched. In implementation of the close and active connection existing between ...
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BMH.WS0755 section 1.pdf, on page 131
... 131. lively active character, full of vigour and resource and always attentive to details concerning the work in hands. He could be found somehow and somewhere. Generally I reported to him. On that particular day Lt. "Mac" caught me by the arm and said, "You're just the man I want. I have a little ...
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BMH.WS0755 section 1.pdf, on page 132
... of the Courts. Tommy Allen dead! He was one of our best, always so active, always so reliable as a man ...
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BMH.WS0755 section 1.pdf, on page 201
... , Athenry, and Dundalk, Maynooth, and Ashbourne were actively engaged in the fight or gave active ...
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BMH.WS0755 section 2.pdf, on page 27
... , active and of course, reliable. One of these was Ned Dolan. Such men had many thrilling experiences out ...
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BMH.WS0755 section 2.pdf, on page 55
... they were wondering whether it would be met by passive resistance or active resistance. Well, my friends ...
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BMH.WS0755 section 2.pdf, on page 83
... 295. Ireland's fight for self-determination did not go unheeded for in the United States, in Australia and in England, wherever Irish people were, an agitation had sprung up, indeed had been maintained since 1916, to support the Irish cause. The Irish in America were particularly alive and active ...
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BMH.WS0755 section 2.pdf, on page 85
... , raids, arrests and repressive measures. Chapter 15. That year then was a particularly active. year ...
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BMH.WS0755 section 2.pdf, on page 115
... at a time when the race was to the strong and the active, and the only qualifications incumbent ...
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BMH.WS0755 section 2.pdf, on page 124
... the full force of a highly concentrated active and progressive Intelligence system which the I.R.A ...
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BMH.WS0755 section 2.pdf, on page 173
... physique, active, and standing over 6 feet tall. Peadar Clancy had taken part in the great hunger ...
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BMH.WS0755 section 2.pdf, on page 194
... fighting to be free. On the other side, the I.R.A., pursuing a policy of passive and active ...
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BMH.WS0755 section 2.pdf, on page 195
... of activity, the major portion of our forces in Dublin had been playing a passive and generally non- active ...
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BMH.WS0755 section 2.pdf, on page 218
... 428. they continue to commune with their confreres who were conducting active fighting outside. In these respects the men were up to expectation. Their conduct as sentenced prisoners or internees was exemplary, praiseworthy and noble. From the first moment of their arrests, the men behaved ...
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BMH.WS0755 section 3.pdf, on page 11
... included, affected to bring into play a more active and a more sustained effort into the fighting ...
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BMH.WS0755 section 3.pdf, on page 79
... with the possibilities, if not the probabilities, that at sometime, and due to our active part ...
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BMH.WS0755 section 3.pdf, on page 102
... prominently active, astutely suspicious and most eminently efficient in the discharge of the varied duties ...
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WS Ref #: 730 , Witness: Seamus O'Mahony, Officer IRA, Cork, 1921
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... that night disappointed and straightaway wrote to my Company 0.C. volunteering for active service with any Active Service Unit, and, in error, signed my name instead of my number to the letter, as I ... Battalion Active Service Unit in the area was formed towards the end of October, 1920, and P.J ...
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... aware, remaining rifles were taken by P.J. Luddy and myself to join the first Battalion Active Service Unit formed in our area in October, 1920. The Redmondite split occurred in Mitchelstown ...
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... . And yet inside this ring there had been in operation from October 1920 to March - April 1921 an Active Service Unit, commencing with eleven men, with local Company support, d now twenty-two strong ...
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... to future generations. The following served in the 3rd Battalion (Glanworth) Active Service Unit: Comdt. Tom ...
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... in abundance, the Officers and Active Service men in the area felt competent to carry out this operation themselves. As they were so anxious the Battalion O.C. acceded to their wishes. Active Service ...
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... to see much Active Service. Mick Crowley, B.E., was a Section Leader in General Tom Barry's famous ...
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... THEREFORE ORDERED THAT SIX HOUSES IN THAT DISTRICT OF INDIVIDUALS KNOWN TO BE ACTIVE SUPPORTERS ...
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... -4- President of thw G.A.A., who was also an active member of the U.C.C. Company. The Hall in Maylor Street, Cork, was a hive of activity in 1918-20, and Sundays found us regularly on field exercises ... Engineering examination in the Autumn, I took an active part in Company operations, and in particular ...
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... in Mitchelstown he was active up to Easter Week, 1916. In 1920 he was arrested and interned ...
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WS Ref #: 1377 , Witness: Hugo MacNeill, Commandant Fianna Eireann, Dublin, 1919 - 1921
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... ) The Fianna Commando. In the spring of 1916 the Fianna Commando was formed in Dublin. This was an active service unit composed entirely of officers and older boys, formed in preparation for the coming ... as a separate unit at Skipper's Alley Hall (behind Adam and Eve's Church) on Easter Sunday. It was to fight ...
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... 22. and available; for active service under the local Volunteer Command, although not on a wholetime basis as in the case of the Volunteer A.S.Us There was no specific Fianna A.S.U. in Dublin, but the Volunteer Brigade Headquarters co-operated in maintaining the morale of the older Fheinnidhe ...
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... organisation The initial organisation was the essence of simplicity itself. The basic unit was the sqpad ...
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... 21. These bloodless skirmishes, parades, manoeuvres etc., continued on into the early winter of 1919. By that time it was apparent that the resumption of active hostilities on a large scale between the. Irish and British forces was imminent, and steps were taken to place the Fianna on a proper ...
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... (then in the British Consular Service), and The O'Rahilly. 3. Objects, etc., of the Fianna. The original ...
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... less active opposition, from both the British Authorities and the Irish Constitutionalists ...
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WS Ref #: 1308 , Witness: Henry O'Brien, Captain IV and IRA, Westmeath, 1913 - 1921; Member ASU, Westmeath
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... in charge of it, so that it was never a very compact unit at any time. They were not prepared to undergo the severe hardship and privations which service with such a unit would entail, such as long ... too good a position. Arms of the service type were few and, worse still, the supply of ammunition ...
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... 1920, a flying column, or active service unit, as organised for the brigade area, and I joined ... . For armament the column had ten service rifles with ...
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... so. We were now the I.R.A. The Dáil now floated a loan and the Volunteers were active in pushing ... got no service weapons whatsoever. Fortunately all the raiding was finished successfully without any ...
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... /C. There had been discontent in the brigade that O'Mara was not active enough in pursuing the fight ...
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... . This armament consisted of about 12 rifles - service pattern long Lee Enfields, and some .303 ammunition which was the service ammunition for such rifles. Prior to Holy Week 1916, we were aware ...
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... of that company. Nearly all our old members became active again. Sean Hurley of Athlone was officer ...
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... . This they did right well, even in the towns where the R.I.C. were still active. This activity also had another ...
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... revolvers of different type with a limited supply of ammunition and four or five Lee Enfield service ...
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... wanted to do some business in the town and I did so. We both carried service pattern revolvers in our ...
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... 16. and generally behaving in a rowdy manner. I got one of my pals from the column and, armed with revolvers, we proceeded to the scene. We waited until the four soldiers had got into their boat in which they had come up the river and then held them up. One of them was armed with a Webley service ...
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... 22. of such weapons as it did, and therefore rendered them impotent to carry out any operations against the enemy which entailed the use of service armament. Other than filling cartridges with buckshot and the making of mines or bombs of the cart box wheel type, nothing was done in the area ...
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WS Ref #: 999 , Witness: James Fitzgerald, Commandant IRA, Kerry, 1921
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... commenced the organisation of an active service unit in the Lispole company area. I was later appointed Vice-Commandant. I took charge of the unit and the members were Dan Griffin, James Kavanagh, Thomas Ashe ... for the unit were expected to be ready at any time day or night. Maurice Fitzgerald and Timothy Prendiville ...
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... the unit armed and we formed a section of engineers to cut down black alder and make charcoal of which we ...
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WS Ref #: 838 , Witness: Sean Moylan, OC 3 Southern Division IRA, 1921; Member Dail Cabinet 1951 - 1954
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... be almost certain to get action. I decided to visit the Brigade O.C. who was with the Active Service Unit ... it as my opinion that it was useless for the Active Service Unit to lie in ambush * See Page 114 (a) ... been no further action. I commented on the fact and he informed me that the Unit had almost ...
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... 121. British seemed to make a special point of destroying Creameries - and da had cowe again before the guard was withdrawn. There were no reprisals attempted. The Active Service Unit marched back to its old billets at Freemount and I changed my Headquarters from Drominarigle to Kiskeam. Life goes ...
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... and select the position. When our discussion ended evening had come, the Active Service Unit which ... 115. without being reasonably assured of the possibility of action and expressed the view that the system of utilising the Unit without close co-operation with the Battalion was definitely defective ...
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... 112. VIII. The success at Mallow, the capture of a relatively large amount of arms made possible at this stage the creation of a well equipped Active Service Unit, no longer as theretofore dependant ... devoted to intensive training and afterwards for a few further weeks the Active Service Unit lay ...
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... . The Active Service Unit retreated to Drominarigle; the men of the various Companies moved off to their own ... the Active Service Unit took possession of the town of Kanturk which had been closely watched ...
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... of whose members were from Millstreet Battalion, should tackle the problem. The Active Service Unit ... , my cousin, Liam Moylan. He was most anxious to join the Active Service Unit but I considered him ...
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... arrived and with it came unexpectedly the Active Service Unit to my Headquarters at Drominarigle. I ... four strong active men were selected - Joe Keeffe, Jerh. O'Leary, Tom Herlihy and another. They did ...
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... and Auxiliaries set out on an unprecedented campaign of murder and destruction. The Active Service Unit ... not be contemplated, but more essential it was that forceful men of the fighting service should more ...
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... of circumstance had brought an Active Service Unit into being. And if these men had been welded ...
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... 92. Service Unit, to find money for political purposes when we needed it, to be carried as a hostage through the country on British military lorries, who never failed us, who was to live long enough ... to be obsessed with any such feeling, as, apart from the Active ...
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... , as Deputy Brigade O.C., was to have had charge of the Active Service Unit. Now Lynch was anxious ...
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... , they to return to prepare the Active Service Unit, I to prepare the local Companies for road ...
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... but his ambition was to graduate from despatch carrying to membership of the Active Service Unit. His ...
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... charge of an ever developing organisation in ever changing circumstances. The Active Service Unit had ...
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... with a much more effective spur to action. Paddy McCarthy had been detailed to the Active Service Unit ...
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... 140. The Court decision had an amusing sequel. Early in 1921 the Active Service Unit, strong, well trained, hardened and experienced, was striking everywhere. According to the nature of the work and its conditions, its strength varied. It never had a greater number than fifty except when several ...
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... into the brilliant leader of an Active Service Unit and to earn among his not easily impressed comrades ...
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... interned in Frogoch and he was the eldest of three brothers who served with the Active Service Unit ...
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... to complete the work of demolition. I also mentioned that if I had the Active Service Unit at my ...
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... 231. Dublin and proposed to spend a month with the Active Service Unit in my Brigade. I was pleased, naturally, that my Brigade was the one selected and determined that our work and organisation should be such as to counterbalance in the President's mind the effects of any of the political ...
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... 237. pants, both articles the property of a schoolgoing son of the farmer in whose house we were. He did not look more than fourteen. I was satisfied with his appearance and his capacity to handle the job. The Volunteers disappeared The augmented Active Service Unit marched off into the night ...
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... . Half a dozen men on the Active Service Unit waiting list had been armed with new rifles as a result ...
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... of the fact Active Service Unit had left the district, the usual care in regard to sentries and signals had ...
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... member of the Active Service Unit and also had the names of some of the prominent under-cover men ...
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... 93. Service Unit, the Volunteers were pitifully armed and could only have hoped to be successful against well armed patrols by way of sudden rush and swift surprise. But these ambushes laid for the British troops had a salutory effect, they set the British nerves on edge and confined both police ...
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... of adequate value for any expenditure of such moneys. The capacity for generous service is not always ... of the Irish Volunteers in 1917. Little money was needed, an were voluntary workers. Each Unit ...
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... instruments was made, a few cars procured and a few hefty active service men proceeded to the city ...
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... the country as Active Service Units did, constantly seeking battle from ...
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... the Active Service Units were to live off the country those who carried out the work ...
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... unconceived future of the Active Service Units. Combat troops are not made quickly or to order ...
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... 2O4. the Active Service Units, and capable of taking the same risks and enduring the same discomforts as these did. One hundred such men, with their better military training, superior armament and experienced leadership, in each Battalion area would not have absorbed one fourth of the British Army ...
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... of understanding or belief. But soldiers on active service, whose lives are hourly imperilled, who see ...
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... 278. their deaths were an agony and by whom their memory is revered. It is a story of failure and disruption, of bitterness and antagonism; from it may be learned the method of eliminating these evils and avoiding them in future. It were probably best told by one who played an active if manor part ...
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... inexperienced members were not soft fibred. They would pay for service but they intended that the service ...
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... my hand. I told him that I had no further intention of availing myself of his service. "Well", he ... prisoner because he was an M.P. This man, although he had long service with the British Army, came ...
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... to a specialised service. The basis of organisation was the parish; in every parish a Company was formed ...
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... successfully are those who weld the nation into a single-minded political unit directed to a clear ...
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... 25. and developed a feeling of strength and cohesion. Men got to know each other, passed judgment on each other, were welded into a coherent political unit. Political parties in settled conditions tend to become mere collection collection agencies. They collect votes, gather money and leave policy ...
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... 49. "Music is the only noise which one must pay to hear" must have had in mind the bands from which I suffered. In the Western side of the constituency every Sinn Féin Club and Volunteer unit desired to have a band, a pipers' band for preference, by way of second choice, a fife and drum band ...
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... , hurriedly mobilised, not sufficiently trained and disciplined, to act as a coherent unit under ...
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... 122. IX. It was essential that each Unit of the organisation should be kept in close contact with the others. Several orders, information and instruction had to be conveyed swiftly. Our intelligence system had ramifications everywhere and its discoveries had to find their way swiftly to a central ...
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... to a combat unit was not merely my concern for his personal safety but fundamentally my desire ...
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... unit of a number of British cars. I gave an order to the men to withhold their fire and as it came well ...
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... to apportion it and to take other steps to make the Brigade a more efficient fighting unit. While I did ...
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... in the commission of outrages. 3. Active influential Fenians who travel about the country organising ...
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... and lucrative business, who was, as the situation developed, to clothe and feed the Active ...
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... named Noonan whose Sons were active Volunteers. A few nights after this occurrence Noonan's house ...
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... assured that the coast was clear headed for the West. British raiding parties were very active in Kerry ...
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... felt that my retirement from active effort for any reason would be misunderstood and would have ...
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... 24. service given theirs have not been heard. They have employed no public relations officer. They have no desire for publicity. Content they are in a knowledge of duty done. Of such is created the national barrier against derision and despair, the springboard of each new national advance. I have ...
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... and effective national service and who in battle or before the firing party in the jail yard gave ...
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... in this service. This was the origin of the Irish Constabulary and of its present system, one ...
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... by no unworthy motive. Many of them in 1918 had long service for which a pension was assured ...
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... 64. content and delivery had nothing to do with the success of our candidate, Joe Doherty. Those who accompanied me from North Cork were Michael MeAuliffe, Seén Breen, now in the Army Medical Service, and Charlie O'Reilly, killed in March, 1921. It was a new experience for me. I ...
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... ones were quickly silenced. The rudimentary intelligence service which I have mentioned developed ...
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WS Ref #: 1181 , Witness: John O'Connor, Officer IRA, Kerry, 1921
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... then invited Tom McEllistrim who had unofficially taken charge of our active service unit, which was composed ... attack. This was a serious blow to our company, as we were deprived of the services of the active service unit which, at that time, were in possession of 12 rifles. We also missed the confidence ...
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... companies our active service unit consisted of 21 or 22 men who regarded themselves as seasoned ... be told by David McCarthy who was on our active service unit at the time and is now residing ...
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... . About three days after our success at Gortatlea we formed a local active service unit which ...
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... to be lit before the bomb was thrown. A month later, our unit returned to Scartaglen. We were armed ... with a mixture of petrol and paraffin. McEllistrim was again in charge. When the unit reached ...
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... , with the approval of the company, decided to build a ball for use by the unit with the money ...
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WS Ref #: 1213 , Witness: Timothy O'Shea, Member IV, Limerick, 1913 - 1919; Captain IRA, Limerick, 1921
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... -5- blocking roads. Early in 1921, an Active Service Unit was formed within the Battalion. All of the men in the unit were on the run for some time previous. It was made up of about twenty-five men ... service unit. Several attempted ambushes were laid but, for one reason or another, they never ...
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