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  • WS Ref #: 623 , Witness: Edmond O'Brien, Member IRA, Cork, 1917 - 1921

    • ... -5- Volunteer William Garde, Ballinamona. (then in yell). Denis Driscoll, Shanagarry. Thomas Hayes, Richard Kenefick, Wm. Fennessy. Maurice McNamara. Tim O'Brien, Ballylanguane. John Barry, William Crotty, (deceased). William Twomey, Shanagarry. William Lynch, Police Officer. T. Walsh, Ballingrane ...

  • WS Ref #: 631 , Witness: Bernard C Byrne, Member IV, IRA and 'The Squad', 1913 - 1921

    • ... visit, thus creating the position that Barry, instead of being brought back to his cell from ... fixed for the rescue. When Byrne and Ahston arrived in Fleet Street they found that the Barry family ... that Miss Barry was induced to come to the prison gates at all. When eventually she did arrive she ...

    • ... Page 1. Brigade Intelligence 2 2. Detectives Barton & Gibney 2 3. Raid on Kingsbridge Station 5 4. Attack on armoured car at Phibsboro' 7 5. Effort to secure arms 12 6. Attempted rescue of Kevin Barry 14 7. Attempted attack on Igoe 18 8. John Ryan, British spy shot 5/ 2/ .21 20 9. Three R.I.C. men ...

    • ... of Kevin Barry: Contrary to general belief, Headquarters were very concerned about the position in relation to Kevin Barry and his impending execution. For a considerable time prior to the date fixed ...

    • ... vicinity, but they were to take no action unless and until we were making our get-away with Barry ... , would take a visit with Barry at approximately twenty minutes past three. At that time Kevin Barry's ...

    • ... -17- We had planned that when Miss Barry had taken her visit I would ask for a visit immediately on her heels. I would then be ushered into the room immediately on the right of the main door, where ... into the main building. By that time I should have arrived in the Governor's office, and, as Kevin Barry ...

    • ... -22- of the practice then obtaining in police quarters of bringing R.I.C. men to Dublin to identify country Volunteers who would otherwise be unknown to the D.M.P. Our Intelligence was aware that three of these R.I.C. men were due to visit Dublin Castle on a certain date, and that after ...

  • WS Ref #: 730 , Witness: Seamus O'Mahony, Officer IRA, Cork, 1921

    • ... to Kildorrery. This information was promptly conveyed to Commandant Barry, and our small Column ... : Commandant Tom Barry, Vice-Commandant and Column Leader, "Dorney" O'Regan, Battalion Adjutant, Dan Shinnick (R.I.P.), Liam Kearney, Tim Barry, Willie Barry, Davy ...

    • ... Barry, Battalion 0.C., Glanworth. "Dorney" O'Regan, Battalion Vice-Comdt. and Column Leader ... , Glanworth. Tim Barry, Parkclough, Glanworth. Willie Barry, String, Glanworth. David Bernard, Tailor ...

    • ... was afterwards so informed by Commandant Ton Barry, Glanworth, 0.C. 3rd Battalion, Cork 2 Brigade. The first ... , under Brigadier D. Hannigan, assisted by Commandant Torn Barry and some others from Glanworth area, had ...

    • ... . The flanking party consisted of Column Leader D. O'Regan, Tim Barry, "Bosco" Walsh, Billy Gillahue and myself. "Dorney' was now battalion 0.C., as Commandant Tom Barry had been captured on a visit ...

    • ... , and Commandant T. Barry, "Dorney" O'Regan and Dan Shinnick of our Column. The men, who had been ...

  • WS Ref #: 755 , Witness: Sean Prendergast, Member Fianna Eireann, 1911; Officer IV, Dublin, 1914 - 1916; Captain IRA, Dublin, 1921

    • ... as a Volunteer and his glorious death. Ballad sheets were printed in laudation of "Kevin Barry" and sold ... for it depicted him: "Only a lad of eighteen summers And there's no one can deny Kevin Barry gave his young life For the cause of Liberty". Another composition entitled The prison grave of Kevin Barry ...

    • ... to his comrades. later when the British announced that Kevin Barry had been tried by courtmartial ... Kevin Barry was incarcerated, was at that time a veritable military fortress, well and heavily guarded. It was known that Kevin Barry was under close observation and surveillance day and night. He ...

    • ... something for their comrade - Kevin Barry - and disappointed that their plans were not put into operation ... to destroy types like Kevin Barry for daring to contest their authority to Ireland in the British interests ...

    • ... and Seán Doyle, Billy Baxter, Dave Goulding of "H" Company, Jimmy Carrigan, Denis Holmes, Kevin Barry ...

    • ... ourselves with joy and excitement at the; sight of the captured booty, especially so when Kevin Barry ...

    • ... to the loss of their dear comrade Kevin Barry. His name was to be in our memory, in our ...

    • ... entrance with a relative or relation of Kevin Barry. The plan presupposed that these would be admitted ...

    • ... for poor Kevin Barry - and the common understanding was now that nothing short of a miracle could save ...

    • ... knowledge that the I.R.A. were planning to effect the rescue of Kevin Barry. The next few hours were sad ...

    • ... 367. ejaculation for the same purpose. ln this way many of us who found ourselves in the vicinity of the prison, or those otherwise engaged, united with the sacrificial act of our dear comrade. In executing Kevin Barry the British government added one more martyr to he long scroll of Ireland's ...

    • ... 22. booking orders, from the modest Irish manufactured Christmas cards to the aeroplane. Apropos of the latter, it may be interesting to recall that at one at the Aonachs there was displayed an aeroplane made by a Mr. Ferguson. Many visitors to these early exhibits became victims at the Christmas ...

    • ... .22 bore Springfield miniature rifles, and carried them as gallantly as our elders ...

    • ... shooting practice. This was carried out in the basement of "41". We fired with a .22 bore miniature ...

    • ... , Frank, Captain. 19. Farrell, Michael 20. Farrelly, John 21. Fisher, John 22. Flood, Seán 23. Grimley ...

    • ... at Finglas, Ballymun or Santry. The rifle for the firing practice consisted of a .22 miniature which had ...

    • ... 22 453 Brigade. He had to keep records of all fresh purchases and acquisitions of munitions to Companies and Battalions. Truly an unenviable job which none but a real "live-wire" could be expected to fill. There were indications too that the British were in no better plight than we were during ...

  • WS Ref #: 1708 , Witness: William Barry, Officer IRA, Cork 1921

    • ... ORIGINAL BUREAU OFMILITARY HISTORY 1913-21 BUROSTAIRE MILEATA 1913-21 NO. W.S. 1.708 ROINN COSANTA. BUREAU OF MILITARY HISTORY, 1913-21. STATEMENT BY WITNESS. DOCUMENT NO. W.S. 1708. Witness William Barry, 7, Dunedin Tee., Ballinlough Road, Cork. Identity. Capt. 'D' Company, 2nd Battalion, Cork ...

    • ... ORIGINAL BUREAU OF MILITARY HISTORY 1913-21 BURO STAIRE MILEATA 1913-21 NO. W.S. 1.708 STATEMENT BY WILLIAM BARRY, No. 7 Dunedin Terrace, Ballinlough Road, CORK. I am a native of Cork and in the year ... Lieutenant, myself (Wil1iam Barry) and 2nd Lieutenant, Paddy Goulding. Our new Company area covered ...

    • ... the Truce came in July 1921. SIGNED: W Barry DATE: 5 December 1957 WITNESS: BUREAU OFMILITARY HISTORY ...

  • WS Ref #: 1743 , Witness: Tom Barry, OC Cork No 3 Brigade Flying Column, 1920 - 1921; Commandant General IRA, 1921

    • ... ROINN COSANTA. BUREAU OF MILITARY HISTORY, 1913-21 STATEMENT BY WITNESS. DOCUMENT NO. W.S. 1,743. Witness Comdt. General Tom Barry, 64, St. Patrick's St., CORK. Identity. 0/C Cork No. 3 Brigade, Flying Column; Commandant-General I.R.A. Subject. (a) Autnentication of his book "Guerilla Days ...

    • ... Tom Barry, 64, St. Patrick's Street, CORK. ...

    • ... . (P.J. Brennan) Commandant General Tom Barry, 64, Patrick Street, CORK. ...

    • ... in which this is written. Yours faithfully, Tom Barry ...

  • WS Ref #: 1754 , Witness: Tom Barry, Wife of Tom Barry, nee Leslie Price; Member Cumann na mBan Executive, 1920 -1924

    • ... ROINN COSANTA. BUREAU OF MILITARY HISTORY, 1913-21 STATEMENT BY WITNESS. DOCUMENT NO. W.S. 1.754. Witness Mrs. Tom Barry, (née Leslie Price), 64, Patrick St., Cork. Identity. Member, Cumann na mBan Executive, 192O - 1924 Subject. Easter Week, Dublin, 1916. Conditions, if any, Stipulated by Witness ...

    • ... STATEMENT BY MRS. TOM BARRY (née Leslie Price), 64, Patrick Street, Cork. My first recollections of nationality came through my mother's keen Parnellism and her and my father's pro-Boerism in the British attack on the Afrikanders. These were strengthened later when she became a member of Sinn Féin ...

  • WS Ref #: 17 , Witness: Eamon Lynch, Officer IV, Kerry, 1915 - 1916

    • ... train. He said "You will meet Ginger O'Connell and Daithi Barry at the train. Ginger will go to Tralee to take charge and you will go with him. Barry will go to Barley Hill". He also said, "Ye are lucky in having Ginger in Tralee." I went to the train, met O'Connell and Barry and the three of us ...

    • ... mentioned as far as Barley Hill, Daithi Barry was in charge there. He had about two Companies but had ...

  • WS Ref #: 875 , Witness: James (Seamus Bawn) Duggan, Lieutenant IRA, Clare, 1921

    • ... ROINN COSANTA. BUREAU OF MILITARY HISTORY, 1913-21. STATEMENT BY WITNESS. DOCUMENT NO. Witness James (Seamus "Bawn") Duggan, 22 Bohermore, Galway. Identity. Second Lieut. Claregalway Coy. 1st Battalion Galway Brigade, I.R.A. 1921. Subject. Kilroe Ambush, Co. Galway, 19th January, 1921. Conditions ...

    • ... STATEMENT by Séamus "Bawn" Duggan, 22, Bohermore, Galway. KILROE AMBUSH. Early in 1921 I was 2nd Lieutenant of the Claregalway Company 1st Battalion Galway Brigade, Irish Republican Army. Martin Grealish was Company Captain, and Martin Fahy was 1st Lieutenant. Brian Molloy was 0/C of the Battalion ...

  • WS Ref #: 878 , Witness: Patrick O'Sullivan, Officer IV, Cork, 1916; Commandant IRA, Cork, 1921

    • ... -22- the inner workings of the Brotherhood. My uncle Was in it when it formed the link between the ill-starred Fenian movement and the foundation of the Irish Volunteers, the Army which carried the aims of the I.R.B. to fruition and in which, through the inspiration and example of that uncle, I ...

    • ... of ammunition. This wasn't much and neither was our armament. We had one. 22 rifle, which wasn't too ...