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WS Ref #: 1502 , Witness: William Crowley, Captain IRA, Cork, 1921
... Company, Schull Battalion, Cork III Brigade I.R.A Subject. Activities of Lisheen Company, Irish Volunteers Schull Battalion, Cork III Brigade, I.R.A., l9l4-1923, and Brigade Flying Column 1921 ...
... was formed, my company (Lisheen) was transferred to Schull battalion from Skibbereen. There was no change in the officers of the company. The 0/C of Schull battalion (Sean Lehane) was now transferred to Dunmanway as battalion 0/C there. This led to a change in Schull batialion staff which now became: 0/C ...
... -16- We continued to operate against the Free State forces in the area. They had now established posts in Ballydehob, Schull and Collatrim. It was now January 1923. Sniping operations on these posts were continued up to the Cease Fire Order from I.R.A. headquarters in April 1923. I still continued ...
... on the staff of Bantry battalion, was sent into Schull area to organise it. He established a number ... of Schull battalion which was now an additional unit of Cork III briga4e. In the reorganisation, part of Lisheen company (Kilcar) area was taken over by Schull battalion. ...
... in Schull, Bantry, Castletownbere and Skibbereen battalions attended. Tom Barry was in charge ...
... in the Schull battalion staff, as Tom Hickey (Vice 0/C) left the area to take up employment. He was replaced ...
... ., Bantry, Castletownbere, Schull, Skibbereen and a new battalion, Drimoleague, which embraced portions ...
WS Ref #: 1661 , Witness: John Quinn, Senior Officer, Clare County Council. 1912 - 1942
... -7- Inmates of the Ennis Workhouse at this time numbered 310, comprised as follows: - Able-bodied males - 48 females - 29 Infirm males - 85 females - 74 Children up to 15 years - 74. ...
... forces. My office in the Ennis Workhouse was constantly raided by enemy forces, principally because the Workhouse Master was Comdt. Frank Barrett, Mid-Clare Brigade. During these years I also did other ...
... into a County Home for the aged and infirm. The Workhouse Hospitals at Ennistymon and Kilrush were retained and called District Hospitals, and as Scarriff Workhouse had already been burned down, Mr. E. McLysaght ...
... -4- have no further communication with that Board. Letters were received later from that Board but they were not read. Contracts for supplies to the Workhouse were accepted on this date subject to the condition that no contractor should receive supplies from Belfast or firms imposing civil ...
... ) reported that the Master of the Workhouse was absent from duty since Sunday, the 21st November, 1920 ...
WS Ref #: 928 , Witness: John Shields, Member IRB, County Tyrone, 1913; Captain IV and IRA, 1913 - 1921
... on this was that his brother's cows were better looked after than we were. Plans for escape from Larne Workhouse. Pat McCormack from the Glens of Antrim was also a prisoner with me in Larne Workhouse. Shortly after ... of escape from the Workhouse. He brought a number of us in on this planning business and our joint ...
... the main Workhouse building and when we had all the available spaces between floors and ceilings of all ... this by using an old maternity quarters which had been boarded off from the rest of the Workhouse. This last ... information from outside sources that a boat was to be available near the Workhouse to remove all ...
... were removed we were, after a few weeks, removed to Larne Workhouse. Later on, some of the hunger ... with me to Larne Workhouse. Rice and I were particularly good friends up to the time of his death. To give some idea of the discomforts of Larne Workhouse, I was put into a typical room on the top ...
... instructions about who to get in touch with in the Workhouse, and I gave him a clear idea of how far ... period, I will give the experiences of one internee who was with me in Larne Workhouse ...
... 24. the Mass could get cramped and congested positions in the passages surrounding the cages. From the time I went on to the Argenta in June 1922 up to December 1923 when I was removed from the Argenta to Larne workhouse there were very few releases of prisoners; this, notwithstanding the fact ...
... in Larne Workhouse, which she was granted. I saw the poor man on his way to this interview, delighted ...
WS Ref #: 1481 , Witness: Patrick O'Sullivan, Officer IRA, Skibbereen, Cork, 1921
... 11. them transported to the Workhouse. All rooms in the building were then sprinkled with the paraffin and the building set on fire. While we had been operating in Skibbereen, Tom Barry, with his ... on Bandon Workhouse. On the night following the destruction of Skibbereen Workhouse, a Brigade Council ...
... . A new Battalion was later organised in Schull area. The first officers of Cork III. Brigade were, I ...
... made to burn Skibbereen Workhouse to prevent its occupation by enemy forces. The Column ...
WS Ref #: 1563 , Witness: Michael Dineen, Officer IRA, Cork, 1921
... 12. based on Kinsale. The battalionsat the western end of the brigade Bantry, Castletownbere, Skibbereen and Schull were formed into a new brigade Cork V. I think that, although the plans for this reorganisation were completed prior to the Truce, the scheme did not come into effect until the end ...
WS Ref #: 1334 , Witness: Joseph Stanford, OC Galway Brigade, IRA, 1921
... that there was a spare bed in the Master's quarters in the workhouse. I knew every doorway there too and I ... then slipped in at the back wall of the workhouse and to bed. It was a cold, frosty night. About twelve o'clock, I retired. The lay-out of the workhouse was such that the porter has his quarters in the front ...
... -26- Killoughrey's brother and another man arrived in a sidecar sidecar and called at Ruane's house. P. Ruane's brother brought them to the porters quarters in the workhouse and sent him for me ... and the men were waiting for me, a lorry, containing about twenty Tans, pulled up at the workhouse ...
... . This would be about the first week of November, 1920, and it finished me as an inmate of the workhouse ...
... -35- patrol came nightly from the barrack to the workhouse gate in George's Street. We got no definite answer, so we tramped back again to our camp, about eight miles. Some time before 0hristmas, five of our men had left Kinvara and joined Sean McNamara's Column in North Clare and became very ...
... on the other side as it meant freedom and we made our way to a hill above the workhouse and ...
WS Ref #: 1469 , Witness: Denis Keohane, Commandant IRA, Cork, 1921
... 2. At this time it was decided to re-organise the area into two brigades. A new brigade was organised at the western end of the area. This brigade embraced Pantry, Castletownbere, Schull ... as follows: Pantry, Castletownbere, Skibbereen, Schull and Drimoleague. The latter battalion was composed ...
WS Ref #: 622 , Witness: Dublin Board of Assistance,
... , however, that your enquiry refers to the Workhouse Of the South Dublin Union at Mount Brown. I have ... to the Board by the Clerk of the Union and the Master of the Workhouse. The reports appear to be of little ... desired, the originals may be seen here by arrangement. The Workhouse of the North Dublin Union also ...
... , (Mr. Doyle) and the Workhouse Staff, during the very trying period through which they have passed consequent upon the Workhouse being one of the worst centres of the recent rebellion. Through their exertions the patients and inmates of the Workhouse were looked alter as well as the circumstances ...
... , entered the Workhouse premises by the Gate at James! St. and the gate at Rialto, Kilmainham, about ... , meanwhile the Military occupied all the Workhouse premises and grounds save the frod offices and the Night ... and devotion to duty of the great majority of the Workhouse Staff, Ministers, Priests, Nuns ...
... ) The Clerk also pointed out that, owing to the Workhouse premises being occupied by armed forces ... busi-ness, but on Monday evening the 24th April, 1916, he was informed that the Workhouse Buildings ...
WS Ref #: 501 , Witness: T.J. McArdle, Secretary, Department of Local Government, Dail Eireann, 1919
... with Workhouse relief were seldom desirable. The Poor Laws were introduced when the country was passing through the great famine, and the Workhouse became associated in the minds of the people with the hardships and sufferings of that period. The feelings of objection to the workhouse arising from historic ...
... on workhouse reform were submitted to the Commission by Dr. R.F. Hayes, T.D The communication sent ... started by saying: "The Workhouse is an evil institution" and went on to say that it was the intention ... of such treatment should be sent to a central workhouse for the county or counties (discontinued ...
... in sanatoria. The letter of 30th September 1920, said that a dissolved workhouse workhouse should be fitted up for advanced cases in the proportion of, say, one workhouse for three average sized counties ...
... and of county asylum committees of each county (with, perhaps, the medical officer of the workhouse) he called ... and as infirmaries or homes for aged and infirm cases. The Minister said that one workhouse (discontinued ...
... in the administration of the workhouse. "Knowing the interest Your Lordship takes in all that pertains ... in the administration of the workhouse. "Your Lordship knows the systematic and persistent attempts ...
... . On 6th July 1921, British forces removed inmates from. Galway Workhouse to Gort and occupied the building ...
WS Ref #: 1419 , Witness: Michael Conway, Commandant IRA, Limerick, 1921
... -10- to destroy Rathkeale workhouse. This permission was obtained, and the operation carried out by the local company. Some years later, as a result of the burning of the workhouse, I wrote a letter to the "Limerick Leader", pointing out the necessity for an industry in its ruins. Arising out ...