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WS Ref #: 990 , Witness: John Fanning, Captain IRA, Cork, 1921
... Liam Lynch, Fermoy. Vice 0/C Dan Hegarty, Mallow. Adjutant Tom Barry, Glanworth. Q.M. George Power ... to have some shooting practice with .22 rifle. The next activity of note in the area was the capture ...
... , where they were colledted by Volunteer Michael Barry and handed to me. On at least two occasions I ...
... . We took him out to bundled him into a milk car in which we were driven by Volunteer Michael Barry ...
... in the Battalion area, I took part in the funeral procession and, with Paddy Ahearne and Daithi Barry ...
... shotguns and about half a dozen .22 rifles. During 1917 and 1918 the Volunteers in Fermoy co-operated ...
... -16 of this latter section to dig themselves into two shallow trenches; this latter party were William Buckley (Bronco) and Maurice Began, Martin Condon and Michael Keane. The Column took up their positions at dawn on the 8th December, 1920. They were armed - about 22 with rifles and the remainder ...
WS Ref #: 1561 , Witness: Margaret Lucey, Officer Cumann na mBan, Cork, 1921
... . Barry Treasurer Miss A. Murphy Captain Mrs. Martin (Miss Nora O'Brien) Number of Members 58. (2 ... ) Secretary Mrs. O'Mahony Treasurer Mrs. O'Sullivan Captain Miss Peg Duggan Number of Members 22. ...
... Barry, seemer Weekly parades were held in the Irish Volunteer hall, Sheares Street, Cork ...
... (neé Duggan) Tomás Ceannt Branch. Members. Branch. Mrs. Martin (neé Nora O'Brien) Miss E. Barry Craobh ...
... 22. THURSDAY expense, as no one would travel on it. 'After some discussion, it was decided that the train should leave at 6. p.m. This was to be a special, the ordinary train we were to leave by being the 6.20. We remained in the van by Terry's side until 6 o'clock when the train was to leave ...
WS Ref #: 1270 , Witness: James Cashman, Lieutenant IRA, Cork, 1921
... . Adjt.- Tom Barry, Glanworth. Q/M — George Power, Fermoy. As far as I can recollect, Tom Barry ... there was usually some target practice on Sunday evenings with .22 rifle This gun had been obtained from ...
WS Ref #: 1621 , Witness: Con Flynn, Officer IRA, Cork, 1921
... 22. at (d) opened intense fire on the barrack while Tom Barry threw a tin of petrol into the breach at the doorway and set it on fire. With about five others I was now sent to search the town ... by the Column 0/C (Tom Barry). A steady supply was maintained and in a short time the stairway to the upper ...
... Barry led a party carrying a large mine to the door of the barrack where the mine, with fuses lighted ... on us. The order to charge was given by the O/C (Torn Barry). We all dashed to the barrack door ... of the garrison shouted "we surrender". Toni Barry ordered us to "get back" and we took cover by the walls ...
... ) for the Column O/C (Tom Barry). I got the message and we proceeded to Ahiohill, where we made ... in Drimoleague Village next night. The ground was surveyed by the Column 0/C (Tom Barry), who was driven ...
... on October 26th 1920, Ballinadee Company was represented by Paddy O'Brien and James Barrett. Tom Barry ...
... body, under Tom Barry (Column O/C), had moved off to approach the town from the east. Our duty ...
... ) received instructions from the Column 0/C (Tom Barry) that I was to rejoin the column. I reported ...
WS Ref #: 1326 , Witness: Andrew O'Donohue, Commandant IRA, Clare, 1921
... chairman was Thomas Barry. The mobilisations were held in Ardmore on the lands of J. & M. Collins ... company held weekly meetings for drill and target practice with .22 rifles. Timber rifles were obtained for drill purposes, and unlimited quantities of .22 ammunition seemed to be available through ...
... which then had, as well, two Martin Henri rifles, three Winchester magazine rifles and a couple of .22 ...
... -22- of seven men for the purpose of disarming Mr. McNamara and his friends. Though I was not in this party, I heard a good deal about it afterwards from the Commandant himself and from the men who took part. All accounts were unanimous in saying that, as the men were being instructed ...
WS Ref #: 38 , Witness: Liam Jones, Member IV, Cork, 1915 - 1916
... -3- John Murphy, Burnfort. Mick Han1on, do Paddy Barry, do Jeremiah Hassett, do Coy. Captain: Liam ... 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 #: 47 , Witness: Liam O'Callaghan, Officer Fianna Eireann, Cork, 1916
... . They were:- Tomás MacCurtain, Seán O'Hegarty, Seán O'Sullivan, Paddy Corkery, Miceal Ó Cuill, Tadg Barry ... . There we had a room of our own. In An Dún Seán O'Hegarty had a .22 Winchester rifle which we used for practice. The caretaker of the Transport Workers' Rooms had a .22 also which he allowed us to use ...
... and eight or ten revolvers, Some .22 and some .32. Seán Healy had a Lee Metford rifle and a good supply ...
WS Ref #: 731 , Witness: Katherine Barry Moloney, Sister of Kevin Barry, executed 1920; member Cumann na mBan, 1920 -1921
... (3) our report should have conveyed to Mrs. Barry the implication of which she complains. - Editor, I.P. ...
... ROINN COSANTA. BUREAU OF MILITARY HISTORY 1913-31. STATEMENT BY WITNESS DOCUMENT NO. W.S. 731 Witness Mrs. Katherine Barry-Maloney, 3 Palmerston Road Dublin Identity Member of Cumann na mEan, 1920 -; Sister of Kevin Barry who was executed on 1st Nomember 1920. Subject. National activities of her ...
... the answer that Kevin is supposed to have given. His whole life is expressed in it. SIGNED Katherine Barry Moloney Katherine Barry Moloney DATE 27th septeber 1952 27th Septeber 1952 WITNESS Sm Ceases ...
... APPENDIX C. We regret that on Friday, 22nd April, we published wider the heading "Mr. Traynor on New Republicans" and the sub-heading "Kevin Barry's Gallantry" a statement concerning Mrs. Mary Barry, mother of Kevin Barry, which we now know to have been false. We regret the pain and annoyance which ...
... APPENDIX (Extract from THE IRISH PRESS, April 28th, l949.) THE PLAN TO RESCUE KEVIN BARRY ... in the course of a lecture that a plan to rescue Kevin Barry, who was under sentence of death ... , which was brought back by the courier who was sent to acquaint Mrs. Barry of the proposal. "It has been ...
... , Dublin. Dear Sir, With further reference to my letter on behalf of Mrs. Barry, my client has now read ... in the course of your lecture to "a plan to rescue Kevin Barry". As a matter of fact, there were ... . Barry, her daughter Katherine and her son Michael were abandon their visit to Kevin if such were ...
... APPENDIX C. Z/ED 30TH April, 1949. re Mrs. Barry ATTENDING Mrs. Moloney on the telephone, when we arranged the form of a letter to the "Irish Press" and the form of apology, and it was arranged that I would send it off to-day. ...
... APPENDIX C. (Extract from the IRISH PRESS, April 30th, l949) THE PLANS TO RESCUE. KEVIN BARRY Mr. John Plunkett, writing in reference to the events which preceded the execution of Kevin Barry states ... to the Barry's house in Fleet Street to ask that Mrs. Barry would not take the visit that was arranged ...
... APPENDIX C Z/MF/B.95. 3rd May, 1949. Mrs. Mary Barry, 3, Molesworth Street, Dublin. Dear Mrs. Barry, I enclose a copy of a letter which I received yesterday from Mr. William Sweetman, the Editor of the "Irish Press", and a copy of my reply. He enclosed cuttings of the issue of Thursday in which ...
... APPENDIX C. Z/ED 30th April, 1949. The Editor, "The Irish Press", Ltd., Burgh Quay, Dublin. Sir, I enclose herewith form of apology which I require you to publish in your next available issue on the front page as a condition of my client, Mrs. Mary Barry, refraining from taking any further action ...
... report of Mr. Oscar Traynor's references in his lecture to the proposed rescue of Kevin Barry. I ... of Mrs. Barry, Mrs. Barry's account of the incident, Mr. Oscar Traynor's explanation and an expression of regret on our own behalf for the annoyance caused to Mrs. Barry by our report. In Saturday's ...
... APPENDIX C. Z/MF 3rd May, 1949. William Sweetman, Esq., Editor, The "Irish Press", Burgh Quay, Dublin. re: Mrs. Mary Barry. Dear Sir, We are in receipt of yours of 1st instant and note what you say. !e are conveying the contents of your letter to our client. We shall take her instructions ...
... description of himself. This is a copy of it:- "K.G. Barry, M.S. (medical student) A dangerous ... , feloniously and of his malice aforethought, smiling derisevly at a policeman. Kevin Gerard Barry ...
... 18. ATTITUDE OF KEVIN BARRY AND HIS FAMILY TOWARDS REPRIEVE. On my first visit to Mountjoy - after the Courtmartial on 20th October - when Kevin had told me about having been handed the death ... compromise her full support of the Republican Army. (Signed) KATHERINE BARRY MOLONEY. ...
... months later was returned to me, and which I still hold. (Signed) KATHERINE BARRY MOLONEY. ...
... (2) Barry, gives the following account of the incident referred to by Mr. Oscar Traynor in his ... . Jack Plunkett arrived at the Barry house in Fleet Street, to say they were not to take the visit ... arranged to meet the Barry family outside Mountjoy. They went by train, and met Mr. Plunkett standing ...
... in great grief, but with a fixed try again. (Signed) KATHERINE BARRY MOLONEY. ...
... attended Kevin's Court Martial in Marlboro' (now McKee) Barracks;- Mother Mrs. Barry Sister Myself, then Katherine Barry. Uncle Patrick Dowling. Solicitor Sean O'Huadhaigh. Friends Rev. Fr. Augustine, 0 ...
... wrote you on behalf of Mrs. Mary Barry complaining of the false and libellous statement contained ... . and the Barry family, which clears up the question as to what did occur and makes it absolutely ...
... BARRY MOLONEY. ...
... I The Saturn Statement or Kevin Berry County of The city of Dublin to wit I Kevin Barry 218 Mk of 58 South Circalay Road in the County of the city of Dublin Michael Student Aged 18 Years and aproards solemnly and sincerely dedare as follows on the 20th day of September 1920 I was awested in upper ...
... of Dublin this 20th day of October 1920 Myles Keogh Kevin Gerard Barry A Justice of the peace ...
... in an attempt to rescue him was not agreed to by his mother, and Kevin Barry was executed ...
... (2) they passed. Mrs. Barry and Michael were a pace or two in front. Later that evening I was instructed to prepare a charge of explosive large enough to blow a hole in the outer wall of Mountjoy. The materials were collected and I prepared the charge in a stable at the tack of the North Side ...
... are the Mother, my dear Mrs. Barry, of one of the bravest and best boys I have every known, his death ...
... STATEMENT BY MRS. K. BARRY MOLONEY, 3 Palmerston Road, Dublin. First Instalment. my Cumann na mBan Activities: I joined Cumann na mEan (University Branch) late in 1920. Eileen McGrane was Captain and Kathleen Murphy 1st Lieutenant. When Eileen McGrane was arrested, Kathleen became Captain. I ...
... O'Neill, also a family friend, now Mrs. David Barry, ...
... was a first-class typist. He demurred and I pressed him rather hard. He said, "Miss Barry, I shouldn't dream ...
... to see Kevin Barry. I knew him by sight as a Father Brennan, some time curate in Hackettstown, but I ...
... that this. Kevin Barry was "so respectable". There was also a medical protest or appeal. My knowledge ...
... Barry was executed." My mother and I went at once to Set 6 Uadhaigh to ask him to get this matter ...
... . Then Mr. Meehan, the Deputy Governor,, came into the room and said, "I am sorry, Mrs. Barry. I'm afraid ...
... Attempt. (5) Second Rescue plan and Last Visit. (6) Attitude of Kevin Barry and his family towards ...
... to Republicans. Good Luck Kathesine Barry Motoney Sincerely, A. Dick Mulcahy has not, in fact, written ...
... . The I.R.A. hoped that the British Military Authorities might not connect the prisoner with Kevin Barry of 8 ...
... out and asked for a visit to Kevin Barry. He was admitted before us. At 3.40. Captain Byrne edged over ...
... , Mrs. Barry, but I'm afraid you'll have to leave now". We said goodbye. The last thing Kevin said ...
... of Mountjoy and rescue Kevin by storming the jail. (SIGNED) KATHRINE BARRY MOLONEY. ...
... APPENDIX D Holy Cross College, Clonliffe, Dublin. November 1st, 1920. My dear Mrs. Barry, Poor Kevin, your dear boy, is gone. Deep as is my own grief, I know it is as nothing to that which must fill your heart and I pray that God, Who alone can do it, will comfort and console you. I was with Kevin ...
... APPENDIX B2. Holy Cross College, Clonliffe, Dublin. 3/11/20. My dear Mrs. Barry, I thought you would like to have an account in writing of poor Kevin's funeral, so I set down the few things there are to say. Fr. McMahon and I were summoned to bury him at 1.30 p.m. We found the coffin already closed ...
... -2- then until his release in December '21 or January '22 In military hospitals. His wounding took place in the winter or early spring of 1921. You'll be able to place it by the fact that he was referred to in the newspapers as the man with the bag of guns. In May or June of 1921 a number of us ...
... -22- friends. So far as I can remember, only once did the organisation go astray. One afternoon that I visited him, he was much annoyed because some girls had got in and some of the family had been turned back. He said, "I don't want my past appearing any more. I'd rather see my family while I can ...
WS Ref #: 812 , Witness: Patrick O'Brien, Member IV, Cork, 1916; Captain IRA, Cork, 1921
... -22- We were not strong enough or well armed enough for such a dashing venture. It looked, fool-hardy enough as the couple of dozen Volunteers crept as near as possible to the objective and took up positions each man behind a gate pillar. Then on the arranged signal, a shot from Barry, we all ...
... -18- between us we brought Barry to her house at Shanaway. - This was on the night of 7th December ... and on the 9th we brought Barry to Reardons' of Granure. Mary O'Neill accompanied Barry and myself in a pony and trap. During any of the moves this was the usual way we carried Barry, having the road ...
... . Then it went on to Gaggin. Tom Barry fell sick at Ahiohill. Charlie Burley took over command of the Column, and Tom Barry sent for Seán Lehane to take over the Column as Charlie Hurley had ... with him in two days and two nights. Barry was ill in McCarthy's house at Kilmoyarne near Ahiohill ...
... by Barry to the Ballynacarriga Company to get four men to augment the Column and brought ... selected to deal with the two lorries. Michael McCarthy was in charge of one and Tom Barry in charge ... placed then. Every man was placed in his position then as described by Tom Barry in 'Guerilla Days ...
... four men to the training camp organised by Tom Barry at Clonboig near Kilbrittain. There were about 40 in training under Barry and it consisted of foot drill and arms training; no ammunition could ... . Tom Barry organised his first ambush position in the area at Fanlobbus to the East of Dunmanway ...
... and Tom Barry there. We weren't well settled in when along came the same two lorries of Auxiliaries ... the back and up the hill, though Barry was all for opening fire on them. He was dissuaded as seven ... time. It could hardly have been doubted but some spotter had seen Liam and Barry coming there earlier ...
... -12- formerly stationed in Ballineen and now on holidays from Ross- carbery. He was put into the car and myself beside him with a revolver and in my own clothes again. Barry sat beside the driver. The column had moved off to Ahakeera and we followed on. Our R.I.C. prisoner was released the next day ...
... -13- there, and so there were. One revolver was got and a .38 automatic and also a Volunteer Officer's uniform complete with sam brown belt and revolver, holster, though there was no cap. We took this, though we never found out the history of it. This was the uniform which Tom Barry subsequently ...
... as tests to see how fit they were to respond to a call to action. Tom Barry at this time had Michael ...
... in the Ballynacarriga Company dump. On New Year's Day, 1921, Liam Deasy and Tom Barry, now recovered, came ...
... January, 1921. Tom Barry was in charge of that part of the Column that entered the town from the North ...
... -24- the bridge over the Bandon river and the Protestant church. We had a mine this time with a long fuse attached and it was to be put against the porch door and when a breach was blown, six revolver men were to storm into the barracks. Barry said he would go in first and said he: 'If I am shot ...
... that there must have been a very big job planned by the I.R.A. On 26th May, Barry assembled the whole ...
... -27- As regards the reference to the attack on the R.I.C. Barracks at Rosscarbery, on page 25, I was not actually in this attack because I had been sent on a special mission by Tom Barry to meet Liam Deasy at O'Sullivans of Gurranreach on his return from Dublin after his appointment as Brigade 0/C ...
WS Ref #: 869 , Witness: P.J. Murphy, Captain Fianna Eireann, Cork, 1912 - 1916
... 4 until our country was free. This Brother had a .22 rifle, and in the afternoons when school hours were over a selected few used go shooting with him. In 1912 I joined the Fianna na h-Éireann. I ... Barry and Seán Hegarty kept a fatherly eye on our conduct and general behaviour. Outside normal scout ...
... O'Brien, Miss Bridie Conway, Miss Barry, Misses Annie & Peg Duggan and the Misses Wallace. The Clan ...
... Patrick Cotter Tadg Barry Donal Óg O'Callaghan Harry Lorton Seán Scanlan ...
... - Capt. William Barry - 1st Lt. Richard Langford - 2nd Lt. D. Coy.: Christopher Gorman - Capt. Cornelius ...
... to surrender their rifles. One in particular who stands out is Tadhg Barry ...
... with the Labour Movement. He was the first man to allow me to fire a rifle. (He paid for the .22 ...
... 8 attended and lined up on opposite sides of the hall. The Fianna occupied the back of the stage. During the proceedings a number of speeches were made, but one which struck me most was made by Major McBride. Before he spoke, Tadhg Barry, who had outlined his career, asked permission ...
... Church, Sundays Well, with Humphrey Barry he put his hand into his overcdat pocket to pull out some ...
... a few times and a number of arrests were made, including one named Tadhg Barry who was shot dead ...
... 27 trenches dug across the roads, bridges blown up and everything done to hamper their communication. On a Sunday afternoon the (19/3/21) I was in the Clogheen district. I was accompanied by a Miss Barry, whose family were sympathetic towards the I.R.A. As we approached the Clogheen Chapel we were ...
... of these clashes I used a .22 revolver and a policeman named Brown was slightly wounded on the temple ...
... 22 and the R.I.C. barracks was burned down by the I.R.A. On the 6th June, 1920, Healy's Bridge R.I.C. barracks was burned down by "C" Coy. 1st Battn. The topographical features of Cork City, made operations very difficult. On its approach to the City, the river Lee forms two channels, the north ...