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WS Ref #: 388 , Witness: Joseph Good, Member IV, London, 1914 -1916
... from the carbines, I believe, due to the scarcity of ammunition. Sean Finn, the Brigadier, wee 22 ... the circumstances. GENERAL LUCAS A PRISONER OF THE CLARE BRIGADE A few days after ambush near Glin, I ... installed in a hotel near where General Lucas was held prisoner. Lucas and his guard, which included ...
... CONTENTS. Page. The Volunteer movement in London pre-1916 1 The Kimmage Garrison ..... 3 Easter Week, 1916 ..... 5 Knutsford Prison ..... 21 Frongoch Prison Camp 22 Internees return to Dublin ... ..... 50 The West and Mid Limerick Brigades ... 51 General Lucas a prisoner of the Clare Brigade ...
... and the date might have been an artistic touch. I thought the place whore Lucas was then held prisoner had ... . We dined at eight. We used to play tennis, and I remember on one occasion I had to request Lucas ... and he might be recognised. General Lucas did some fishing on the Shannon, but he caught nothing ...
... proceeded to Cork to take over a prisoner, General Lucas. Lynch and Moylan had captured this British ... Lucas prisoner. The whole party of us, including Sean Moylan and Liam Lynch, came back from Cork to Templeglantine, where General Lucas was lodged that night. Lucas was the traditional British officer ...
... . This man was General Lucas, he said, and he was in rags. Lucas had been ambushed and told them ... ; that General Lucas had got a small wound across the bridge of the nose; that of of the soldiers was shot ... of surrender when General Lucas picked up the dead man's rifle and opened fire on the I.R.A. attackers ...
... conscious of this and hope that they will not suffer as a result of their kindness". Lucas answered ... conversations together, Lucas told me that a Party was being formed in England and that Lord Hugh ... and that his remarks arose to combat my prejudices. Lucas said one thing that was startling: "You have ...
... Two days later some of us escorted Lucas to the banks of the Shannon. Michael Brennan arrived in a punt or boat. It was night-time and there was no attempt to blindfold Lucas, who was observing the stars. Mick Brennan took Lucas across the River, and I remained in Limerick. Two or three days after ...
... of the responsibility for Lucas, and said that the Clare Volunteers were forced to be inactive whilst guarding him. In one humble home where Lucas was lodged he slept between sheets made of flour bags. We had ... dispatches and told me to inform G.H.Q. of what I had gleaned from my conversations with General Lucas. I ...
... days, or maybe a week later, General Lucas escaped from custody of the Volunteers. I decided to go ... had captured Lucas with a view to protecting the Lord Mayor of Cork, would be very angry. After ...
WS Ref #: 907 , Witness: Laurence Nugent, Officer IV and IRA, Dublin, 1913 - 1921
... in the evening. I had made arrangements during the day with Liam Lucas to collect some arms ... at the appointed time and this nearly cost him his life, as when he arrived at the rere of 22 Upr. Baggot ... just said "Skip it Lucas". He skipped down another lane and dumped the arms and got away safely. Had ...
... that from the date of the German Plot in 1918, he rarely missed a day without calling to 22 Upper ... daughters and one other helper (Annie Lucas) did all the housework and attended the door for visitors ...
... and pretended that he was the man of the house. Liam Lucas was interned at the Curragh and when the party ... with two others in a raid by the Free State troops on 22 Upper Baggot Street: he was interned ...
... and Lower Mount St. Lucas and another man from his section were in charge of the ass and his load ...
... rarely carried guns to or from my classes. One of my daughters and Annie Lucas (an assistant in our ...
... , and an assistant, Annie Lucas, had to cross the bridge and were again held up for a long time. While ...
... not idle where spies were concerned. On one occasion Liam Lucas and some of the men in his section arrested ...
... 279. daughter Una and Annie Lucas delivered these despatches. And, then, consternation: when they came to a house in Richmond Street they could not find the message. They thought that they had lost it and were aware of the fact that my name was on it: but they found it after a search ...
... 281. but he lived on. Another outstanding member of K. Coy. was Lieutenant Liam Lucas. He was originally a member of the Irish Volunteers in Tullamore and on account of his activities in that town he was in danger of being arrested and was advised to get out of the way. He was then at business ...
... 295. Although the man was in great pain they succeeded in taking him away in an ambulance chair to Dr. Joe Brennan in St. Michael's Hospital, Dunlaoghaire. I believe this man is still alive. My daughter Una and Annie Lucas collected the guns from Capt. Rowe and the other man who was driving the car ...
... removed:- 50 Rifles .303 50 Rifles .22 A quantity of .303 ammo. Almost 250,000 Rnd. of .22 ammo. ...
... Department started to work in 22 Upr. Mount St. as stated previously, Mrs. Nugent, myself and the family ... Fitzgerald, T.D., 22 Upr. Mount St., Dublin, Ireland. The paper was delivered safely and no notice ...
... military raided 22 Upper Baggot St. for me personally. They made no search for arms or documents ... with the exception of 22. They never connected the coincidence in the numbers. And so ...
... 22. populace, men, women and children: in Scotland there was a policeman for every 1,000 of the population and at the same time there was no crime in Ireland. But he did not mention that they were part of an army of occupation and the eyes and ears of that army. Alex McCabe of Sligo was found ...
... mountains for practice with a .22 bore rifle. They claimed that they were the first Republican Army ...
... in a good supply of .22 bore rifles and ammunition for practices: and so we continued training ...
... transferred to 22 Upper Baggot Street and elsewhere. Had we not seized the Hall, the British military would ...
... . By the middle of November 22 prisoners on hunger strike in Mountjoy and Dundalk were released under ...
... O'Connor and Liam Tannom, and said goodbye to the Dundrum Boys and removed to 22 Upper Baggot Street, ...
... prior to the attempted rescue, Dick Mulcahy, Chief of Staff, called to see me at 22 Upper Baggot Street ...
... at 22 Upper Baggot Street was a small arsenal, during these troubled times. Most of the stuff was under ...
... in various districts, the greater portion of them were Block Commanders. I was living in 22 Upper Baggot ...
... of drums of petrol buried for some time; this was lifted and taken away to my yard at 22 Upper ...
... of the escaped prisoners at the rere of 22 Upper Baggot Street and sent them off in cars to ...
... ), Kavanagh and some others continued their work in a room at 22 Upr. Baggot St. Many men all over Ireland ...
... 174. By the end of September Mountjoy prison was the scene of serious trouble. The prisoners were on hunger strike. They were mostly untried men and were demanding political treatment. They were simply arrested and no charges were preferred against them. In the month of July 22 Upr. Mount St ...
... commandeered police cars in the garage at the rere of 22 Upr. Mount St. I had to be there when the cars were ...
... , a souvenir from the war. When the arms were loaded in the car they were brought to 22 Upper Baggot St ...
... House to take effect on Monday 11th July at 22 noon. And so came an end to the greatest and most ...
... in York Street, I found Cope waiting for me in the sitting room in 22 Upper Baggot Street. He ...
... 2nd Dublin Brigade, was waiting in 22 Upper Baggot St. for orders from H.Q. It was not a very ...
... . another Boy's Brigade boy. This house was kept very secret and we in 22 Upper Baggot St. were the only ...
... in 22 Upper Baggot St. It took them about a week to clear their arrears of work. Mrs. Carolan ...
WS Ref #: 991 , Witness: Owen Harold, Commandant IRA, Cork, 1921
... suggested McCarthy's, Creggane, Lombardstown, and when we moved him there we found that Lucas ... was his name - after a few days. It was under the above circumstances that I me General Lucas ... a little musketry practice with .22 rifles. There was no change of any significance until the Brigade ...
... O'Connor, R.I.C. When General Lucas - the 0/C. British Forces at Fermoy - was taken prisoner by Liam ...
... shotguns. We also had two or three .22 rifles. On St. Patrick's Day 1916, there was a Volunteer ...
WS Ref #: 1080 , Witness: James Hackett, Captain IRA, Cork, 1921
... -2- with .22 rifles. This was usually held on Sunday evenings. The next event of importance in the area, with which I was concerned, was the capture of General Lucas of Kilbarry on June 26th, 1920 ... occurred and I returned home. On the night following the capture of Lucas, the enemy forces stationed ...
WS Ref #: 680 , Witness: Nicholas O'Dwyer, Official Department of Local Government, Dail Eireann, 1921
... and Kilkee 12-13 10. The escape from Volunteer custody of Major-General Lucas 13-14 11. Some details ... Division 22 15. The appointment of Michael de Lacey as principal of the Limerick Technical School 22 ...
... Lucas I got instructions from Sean Wall to go to Jack Hartigan's at Castleconnell and collect General Lucas., Before going, I had decided that General Lucas was to stay in East Limerick for. as short ... through Kilfinane on to Cork. We did not want to have the trouble of holding Lucas as it was difficult ...
... Lucas from I.R.A. custody, July 1920. Conditions, if any, Stipulated by Witness. Nil File No. S.1975 ...
... by a British patrol, this patrol ran into an ambush at Oola. The ambushers did not know that Lucas ...
... 22. himself. When the 2nd Southern Division was formed, I was appointed Divisional Engineer, but I was actually in Local Government then and never took up the appointment. I think de Courcey of Limerick carried on the job in my absence. At one stage of the Treaty negotiations there was a rumour ...
WS Ref #: 845 , Witness: Tomas Malone, 'Sean Forde'; Commandant IRA, Limerick, 1921
... of the attack on Kilmallock Bks. 43-45 22. Rifles sent to West Limerick where we followed. Abortive plans ... of General Lucas about Newmarket, Co. Cork and having held him in East Limerick for a time, pass him ...
... kept Lucas there for several days, perhaps for a week. At the time there was a suggestion that the British might exchange a prisoner for Lucas. Bob Barton was a prisoner in British hands at the time and it was hoped he might be exchanged for Lucas, but the latter scoffed at the notion. He said he ...
... 49. into a military patrol. This was the time that Lucas was down there, it was after we had handed ... at Limerick afterwards. Lucas was kept in Clare for a while. Then he was transferred to mid-Limerick ... him at the time. Lucas was actually nearly being killed after escaping. There was an ambush in Oola ...
... there in West Limerick, General Lucas was captured. I did not go back with the other East Limerick men that time. I went across the Shannon into Clare with General Lucas. He was captured on the 27th June, 1920 ...
... to take over General Lucas, who had been captured a short time previously, and there was great enemy ...
... in Clare, after handing over General Lucas to the Clare Brigade, I was taken into the County Infirmary ...
... Hotel Convention, December, 1916. 20-22 11. Volunteer reorganisation in South Tipperary, 1917. 22 ...
... .22 rifles and I had an automatic pistol. Seumas had a .32 revolver. ...
... 22. cannot remember anything beyond ordinary discussion about organising and getting in touch with fellows when they were released. There seemed to be a feeling at that meeting that there would be a general release of the prisoners in a very short time, that all the internees at any rate would ...
WS Ref #: 883 , Witness: John M McCarthy, Commandant IRA, Limerick, 1921
... 2. Pages 20. The attack on Kilmallock Barracks. 46-50 21. The organisation of the East Limerick Brigade - destruction of: evacuated R.LC. barracks. 50-52 22. Ernie O'Maliley appears in East Limerick ... . 53-55 24. The escape: from I.R.A. custody of General Lucas. 55 25. A military raid on our house ...
... at Appendix F. Meanwhile, in July, 1920, I had made arrangements to accept custody of General Lucas ... Lucas was being moved from one locality to another, but the night before he was to reach my area he ... certain that the escape was a permitted one. The persons in charge of Lucas on that occasion were ...
... the great bulk of the Volunteer membership would have been in the 18-22 age group at this period ...
... -22- afterwards mentioned by the Battalion Commander at an enquiry held in 1918 in relation to a local dispute in which he figured as a principal - the Manahan-O'Hannigan dispute to which I shall refer later. As I was on the anti-Manahan side in that dispute, his (Manahan's) mention of my message ...
... sourer. 1 .22 rifle. 9.5.21. Thomasto inane. 3 O.B. Guns, 2 Bayonets, 1 ace 2 trench helmets, 2 ...
... Brigade, R.F.A. 22. 1st Battn., The Buffs. 23. 1st Battn. Lincolnshire Regt. 24.25, 1st Battn ...
WS Ref #: 936 , Witness: Dulcibella Barton, Sister of Robert Barton, signatory of Anglo-Irish Treaty, 6/12/1921
... brother who had served in France. Then a soldier found in the grandfather clock in the hail a .22 ... was harbouring General Lucas. The soldiers ate all the grapes and peaches in the greenhouse. We had ...
WS Ref #: 1686 , Witness: Ruaidhri Henderson, Son of Frank Henderson, Officer IRA, Dublin Brigade
... 4. METROPOLE-MANFIELD'S BL0CK Metropele occupied at 8 p.m. Tuesday by a force of about 22 under Mr. Oscar Trayner, and later the line was extended by boring through the walls to Nanfield's corner ... Independent Building Lucas' Cycle Shop, and is Liffey St. by about 36 to cover he approaches from 0pel St ...
... Independent Building (in. Abbey St. Garrisoned. say 12 do. LI Lucas’ cycle shop, M. Abbey St. garrisoned ...
... : 18 EXECUTED LEADERS : PAGES : 19/21 KILLED IN ACTION : PAGES : 22/23 ...
... 22. KILLED IN ACTION 1916. Where Killed. South Dublin Union. Records Wing, Four Courts South Dublin Union. Bolend's Mills Area City Hall. College of surgeons city Hall. College of Surgeons. G.P.O. - Moore St. Area. Boland's a Mills Area G.P.O. - Ashbourne church Street. Mills Area. Roof of Henry ...
... Axplanatory Note Mr. Oscar raynor who was in charge of the Metropole plock states that he occupied that building at about 9.30 p.m. on Tuesday with a force of 22. Later he was ordered to extend his line to. the corner of Manfie1ds and was given an additional 10 or 11 man. He also estimates 10. p.m ...
... to occupy the Imperial Hotel, Reinforced at 8 p.m. Tuesday by about 22 of Fairview contingent. Engaged ...
... 15. CHURCH ST. BRIDGE. Commander : Peadar Clancy. Strength : initially 12, increased to 22 by reinforcements on Tuesday morning from the G.P.O. At about 12.15 p.m. Monday barricades were erected on the Bridge and at the mouth of Church St. where two houses were fortified to cover them. on Monday ...
WS Ref #: 1211 , Witness: John (Jack) O'Connell, Captain IRA, Cork, 1921
... 5. on the previous evening. Following the arrival of General Lucas, Slattery was removed ... at St. Colman’s College, Fermoy — returned home. He was unaware of the presence of General Lucas ... then had a short conversation with Patrick and then went into the room where General Lucas ...
... escorting another prisoner who was none other than General Lucas, Officer Connuanding the British garrison ...
... a couple of .22 rifles which enabled the members to have some target practise. At Easter 1920 the members ...