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  • WS Ref #: 62 , Witness: Patrick Looney, Member IV, Cork, 1916

    • ... Scanlon, Maurice Brew. Tim Twomey. Paddy Twomey. Paul Collins. Christopher Twomey. Tom Twomey. Michael Twomey. Denis Sweeney. Tim O'Connell. Rio hard O'Leary. John Sweeney of Stuake Section paraded also ... gun). One lee Enfield Rifle, with 10 rounds. One old rifle. 10 Rounds Two .22 rifles and 200 rounds ...

  • WS Ref #: 990 , Witness: John Fanning, Captain IRA, Cork, 1921

    • ... their positions at dawn on the 8th December, 1920. They were armed - about 22 with rifles and the remainder ... approaching from Fermoy direction and Moss Twomey got ready to give the signal to open fire ... part in this operation were:- Fermoy Company Paddy Moloney(Powder), Billy Twomey, Jack Herlihy ...

    • ... Fitzgerald Vice 0/C Lar Condon Adjutant Moss Twomey Q.M. Con Leddy. The staff of Cork II Brigade was:- 0/C ... to have some shooting practice with .22 rifle. The next activity of note in the area was the capture ...

    • ... Twomey I was engaged in making a final check on the Company and Battalion position preparatory to our ...

    • ... , Lar Condon, Moss Twomey, John Fanning (witness), Paddy Ahearne, George Power (all Fermoy ...

    • ... "on the run". About the end of January, 1920, arrangements were made by Moss Twomey (Battalion Adjutant ...

    • ... , and with Paddy Moloney (Powder) and William Twomey I entered the club where we seized Longhurst ...

    • ... of Moss Twomey, was made up of representatives from Fermoy, Araglin, Castlelyons, Ratheormac ...

    • ... shotguns and about half a dozen .22 rifles. During 1917 and 1918 the Volunteers in Fermoy co-operated ...

  • WS Ref #: 1428 , Witness: Michael O'Connell, Officer IRA, Cork, 1921

    • ... 22. The officers of Cork 11 Brigade from its formation on January 6th 1919 up to the Truce on July ... Clancy killed 15/ 8/ '20. Adjt. Moss Twomey Q/M Jerh. Buckley M/0 Dr. Michael Molan Engr. Patk. Coughlan Pol. Patk. Healy. Aug. 1920 Jan. 1921: 0/C Liam Lynch V/C George Power I/O Adjt. Moss Twomey ...

  • WS Ref #: 38 , Witness: Liam Jones, Member IV, Cork, 1915 - 1916

    • ... , do Con Twomey, do Jack Looney Connell, do Maurice Callaghan, do John Mulcahy, Tooreen. Denis Mulcahy ... Were:- One old Snyder rifle, with a few rounds of ammunition. One .22 rifle, with 100 rounds. Sixty ... .38 andone .22 revolver, with a small quantity of ammunition. ...

  • WS Ref #: 103 , Witness: Tadhg Twomey, Member, IV Cork, 1916

    • ... Twomey attended, each for a week, at the Training Course held in Cork in January, 1916. We got ... , target practice with a .22 rifle and route marches. Terence MacSwiney came out to us frequently. We ... . Jeremiah 0'Sullivan, Tuirinaneun, Ballingeary. Dan Leary, Gortaflodig. Tadg Twomey, Tuirindub. Liam ...

    • ... ROINN COSANTA. BUREAU OF MILITARY HISTORY, 1913-21 STATEMENT BY WITNESS DOCUMENT NO. W.S. 103 Witness Sean O'Hegarty Sean Lynch Tadhg Twomey Jeremiah O'Shea Identity Joint statement Members of Ballingeary Coy. I.V. Subject Ballingeary Coy. I.V. - 1914-1916 Conditions, if any, stipulated by Witness ...

    • ... , REÁNOREE, MACROOM. TADG TWOMEY, BALLINGEARY, and JEREMIAH O'SHEA, BALLINGEARY, CO. CORK. PERIOD ... . All wore uniform. Tadg Twomey and Seán Lynch met them accidentally, but nothing was done that day ... . Adjutant: Tadg Twomey. Treasurer: Dan Corcoran. There was no change in these Officers up to Easter, 1916 ...

    • ... Twomey, who bad been in Cork, came out. He had only unofficial information and brought ...

    • ... rounds One .22 rifle with 100 rounds. Ten shot guns with about 400 rounds. Three .32 revolvers ...

  • WS Ref #: 1424 , Witness: Michael J Burke, Captain IRA, Cork, 1921

    • ... 22. Island with a boat at 11 a.m. on the following Saturday, the boat to fly the Union Jack. I returned to Cobh and made arrangements to get a motor boat and crew. On the Saturday morning about 9.30 ... , the others being Seán Forde of East Limerick and Seán Twomey of Cork. The prisoners appeared ...

    • ... 23. and flung them over a low cliff. I told them I had ropes to tie the prisoners and I wanted to have this done, but they assured me that the prisoners were unconscious and that I had no need to worry. I got MacSwiney, Forde and Twomey into my boat, bringing the soldiers rifle with me, and headed ...

    • ... and a 22 rifle. We drilled and held a few parades, where we were scoffed and laughed ...

    • ... our "il1egal" activities at this time. I remember being with a group at 22 target practice ...

  • WS Ref #: 46 , Witness: Patrick P Twomey, Commandant, IV Cork, 1916

    • ... in. I could not prevent the surrender. The .22 rifle was given to Waterloo Company prior to 1916 ... organisation in the Battalion area before 1916. SIGNED: Patrick P. Twomey DATE: October 10th 1947. Witness ...

    • ... ROINN COSANTA. BURO STAIRE MÍLEATA 1913-21 (Bureau Of Military History 1913-21). 26 RAEDH NA NIARTHARACH, (26 Westland Row), BAILEÁTHA CLIATH. (Dublin). DOCUMENTW.S. 46 Statement by Patrick P. Twomey, Kilmona, Blarney, Co. Cork. Dated: 10th October, 1947. On: Kilmona Coy. I.V. 3rd Bn. Cork Brigade ...

    • ... -4- The following is a list of the men who paraded on Easter Sunday, 1916, from Kilmona Company:- Patrick P. Twomey (Capt. and Battn. 0/C), Kilmona. John McNamara, Sluggera. Michael McNamara, do James Walsh, Kilmona. Tom Walsh, do John W. Walsh, do Jim Walsh, Pat Mulcahy, do John 0'Neill ...

    • ... STATEMENT OF PATRICK P. TWOMEY, KILMONA, BLARNEY, CO. CORK. PERIOD: APRIL 1915 T0 EASTER, 1916. UNITS: KILMONA COMPANY AND 3RD BATTALION, CORK BRIGADE I.V. I Was never a member of the Irish National Volunteer Organisation. Like my father, I could not follow Redmond. There was a Company ...

    • ... I had purchased myself from Daithi Barry. One .22 Rifle. One pike with a four-foot handle. I had ...

  • WS Ref #: 430 , Witness: Thomas Barry, Captain IRA, Cork, 1918 - 1921

    • ... -22- finding the wound they suspected it was Patrick Barry. Another thing which helped my case was that the Battalion still kept up the activities until the Truce and from later computed ... Twomey in Cork Prison. He had been Brigade Adjutant before his arrest. After being there for about six ...

  • WS Ref #: 1584 , Witness: Patrick A ("Pa") Murray, Commandant IRA, Cork, 1921; OC Cork City ASU, 1921

    • ... -22- Florrie O'Donoghue, Jim Counihan, Ned Fitzgibbon, George Burke, Jim Fitzgerald, Peter Donovan and one other from 2nd Battalion. Seán Twomey was put in charge, and I assumed control of the 1st battalion, while "Sandow" Donovan was acting as 0/C in the city. It should he remembered that the city ...

    • ... on Twomey, who was in charge of' the A.S.U., and in was beginning to affect his nerves. About ... o'clock in the morning along the route usually taken by Kelly. Twomey and myself took up position ...

    • ... -24- Twomey became mentally affected, and he asked me to take him out and shoot him. I pretended to do this, and got in touch with some members of the unit. In the meantime, I continued to Walk outside the city with Twomey, and eventually we got him home. During this time, Kelly had gone up ...

    • ... officers were. "Sandow" Donovan, Tom Crofts, Daithí Cotter, Chris. Gorman and Con Twomey, and myself. ...

    • ... . The men on tins unit were: Danny Healy, Stephen McSwiney, Jim Barrett, Liam O'Callaghan, Seán Twomey ...

    • ... -25- were also exchanged, but Kelly escaped. I think that Peter Donovan was placed in charge of the A.S.U. after Twomey's arrest. (Twomey was arrested, walked out of the police barracks, and fired on by soldiers, receiving some six or eight wounds.) I am of the opinion that he (Peter Donovan ...

  • WS Ref #: 1665 , Witness: Edward (Ned) Neville, Officer IV and IRA, Cork, 1917 - 1923

    • ... -2- 0/C - Ned Neville. 1st Lieutenant - Dan Twomey, Ballyvongare. 2nd Lieutenant - James Walsh, now of. Crookstown. Quartermaster - William Neville, Laharn. We trained at close order foot-drill twice ... to take them by force. At this stage, we had about two dozen shotguns, two .22 rifles and a couple ...

    • ... of target. practice with miniature rifles (.22) as ammunition became available. We continued ...