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  • WS Ref #: 874 , Witness: Gilbert Morrissey, Officer IV and IRA, Galway, 1913 -1921

    • ... marched to the North Wall and put on a cattle boat for Glasgow. We were marched through Glasgow city ... allowed to receive tobacco and foodstuffs from Irish sympathisers from Glasgow city and we had plenty ...

  • WS Ref #: 879 , Witness: Brian Monaghan, Commandant IRA, Donegal, 1921

    • ... Dan McGlinchey, emigrated to Glasgow. After his arrival in Glasgow. he must have become prominently associated with Irish Volunteer circles in Glasgow and was also, apparently, associated ...

    • ... 2. McGlinchey returned to Mountcharles area from Glasgow about the year 1915. On his return he had a full Irish Volunteer uniform which he occasionally wore at Volunteer functions. This man was then, apparently, active in the I.R.B. Councils. In Easter Week there was no attempt at a mobilisation ...

    • ... in Scotland in the coal mining districts and in and about Glasgow and Tyneside areas. When they arrived ...

  • WS Ref #: 1004 , Witness: Daniel Kelly, Centre IRB, Scotland, 1909; Officer IV and IRA, Donegal, 1913 -1922

    • ... . In 1908 I was at a meeting in Glasgow at which Pat McCormack was presiding officer. At this period ... . At this meeting in Glasgow a. discussion was held as to ways and means of obtaining arms. The question ... was appointed Centre of the Greenock and Port Glasgow Circle. Pat McCormack and Dan Branniff visited us ...

    • ... speaker too. In 1912 a concert was organised by the I.R.B. in the Co-operative Hall in Port Glasgow ... of the organisation in Greenock and Port Glasgow. At the conclusion of the concert, the members of the I.R.B ... to Port Glasgow, the Sinn Féin organisation was launched. All the Irish people in the locality were ...

    • ... . meetings in Glasgow as representatives of other parts of Scotland, from Port Glasgow down to Greenock ...

    • ... they were members. In 1912 I left Glasgow and came to Derry. I made contact with Pat Hegarty and the other ...

    • ... . Barry, the High Sheriff of County Derry. Sir Hugh did not suspect what the men were doing but his ...

  • WS Ref #: 1164 , Witness: Michael Manning, Member IV and IRA, Galway, 1921

    • ... Connolly and Liam travelled northwards to Glasgow and crossed over to Dublin via Belfast. Liam said he went into clerical garb in Glasgow. He got the priest's outfit from a Father Courtney, a native of Kerry, ministering in Glasgow at the time. The only incident on the journey home to Dublin ...

  • WS Ref #: 355 , Witness: Kitty O'Doherty, Widow of Seumas O'Doherty; Courier Easter 1916, Kilkenny; Quartermaster, Cumann na mBan, Dublin, 1916

    • ... from Glasgow, and a certain number from tiverpoo1. I had not much to do with the London crowd, but with these other boys who came over. They were working men. The Glasgow men used my house ... Robinson came over from Glasgow with Sean Hegarty and the others; and he was very closely ...

    • ... 36. had taken no part in the Rising. My husband, as head of the Supreme Council, attended an inquiry into the matter which resulted in a complete exoneration of the leaders in question. McCartan's Missions. Count Plunkett's Election. Return of Prisoners. Kevin O'Sheil & Andrew Malone came to our ...

  • WS Ref #: 609 , Witness: Felim McGuill, Brigade Intelligence Officer, IRA, Antrim, 1920 - 1922

    • ... asked to contact in Glasgow was suspected of having held on to the money. At least, his leaving ... to Glasgow and contacted this man. We questioned him and each of the three of us came to the opinion that the man was innocent of keeping any part of the missing money. We returned from Glasgow and proceeded ...

    • ... O'Loan and I were asked to travel to Glasgow to contact a man who ...

  • WS Ref #: 696 , Witness: Henry O'Hagan, Officer IRA, Scotland, 1921

    • ... back to Glasgow and reported to Carney. I had brought back a dispatch to General Boylan concerning Sean McGovern who was suspected of selling arms in Glasgow, for a reference as he came from his area ... to send some men and equipment right away. About 7 o'clock 6 or 7 men ariived. .from Glasgow. Two ...

    • ... 7. Sweeney's, Kerse Lane, was our dump and headquarters. Sweeney's daughter made masks for all of us. Mick O'Carroll from Glasgow and myself went by train to Alloa where the prisoners were and the others went by car. We got there all right and met at our allotted places but the prisoners had been ...

  • WS Ref #: 702 , Witness: Frank Drohan, Commandant IRA, Tipperary, 1921

    • ... landed in Glasgow. There was an escort of Scottish police to greet our arrival in Glasgow and we got such a hostile reception from the Scottish dockers and other citizens of Glasgow that I thought ...

    • ... , Brennan Whitmore from Wexford, Tadhg Barry of Cork, who was afterwards shot in Ballykinlar, Jimmy ...

  • WS Ref #: 742 , Witness: Thomas Halpin, Captain IRA, Tipperary, 1921

    • ... to Barlinnie Prison, near Glasgow in Scotland, where the food and general conditions. were somewhat mixed, After a week or so the Irish residents in Glasgow came to our assistance and thereafter kept ... that these Glasgow-Irish people rose to the occasion and filled all our requirements. One ...

  • WS Ref #: 1562 , Witness: Martin Newell, Member IRB, 1905 - 1916; Member IV and IRA, Galway, 1917 - 1921

    • ... 15. paraded on the square and marched to the North Wall, put on cattle boats. Our boat went to Glasgow and we were brought to Barlinnie Detention Barracks, Glasgow. About 60 of the prisoners on our boat were put on the train for Perth. On the voyage to Glasgow the spirits of the men were very high ...