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WS Ref #: 822 , Witness: William James Stapleton, Member IV, Dublin, 1913 - 1919; Lieutenant IRA, Dublin, 1921; Member 'The Squad', 1921
... . Raid on Collinstown Aerodrome 22 9. New arms issued to Company 23 10. Raids on mails 23 11. Street ... Square searched by British troops for dumps 44 21. Police Constables shot in Parliament St. 46 22. Police ...
... 22. Meath Street. There was considerable excitement and cheering, and we were followed by crowds across the city. I was one of the party that went back from Meath Street to the Corporation yard to collect the offal which we, in our ignorance, had thought was of no use, but we were informed ...
WS Ref #: 1283 , Witness: Patrick Ormond, OC Republican Police, West Waterford, 1921
... recollect, we had no more than two or three revolvers, a couple of shotguns and a .22 rifle. Drilling and general training were carried on in a field adjacent to Dungarvan, and practices in the use of the .22 ...
... -22- suchlike, in order to hamper the advance of the Free State troops. It was on February 3rd, 1923, when close to a road-block at Ballylemon, I was fired on from a lorry of Free State troops, accompanied by an armoured car. I tried to escape to the shelter of Ballylemon wood, but was badly ...
... -3- So far as I can recollect, we had very little arms at that time. There was, I remember, a .22 rifle with which we practised occasionally, and possibly Pax or George Lennon, the Vice 0/C, had a revolver or two. There may, also, have been a couple of shotguns in the Company. We drilled in a field ...
... -2- (afterwards T.D. for Co. Waterford), Patrick Croke, Pakeen Whelan, Joseph Vyse and Phil O'Donnell, all of Dungarvan. In the year before the Rising of 1916, our small unit met for occasional drills and talks, but, so far as I am aware, we had no guns at all. There may have been a .22 rifle ...
WS Ref #: 1355 , Witness: John Riordan, Officer IRA, Waterford, 1919 - 1921
... side during the Civil War and returned back home when it was all over. Signed: J O'Riordan Date: 22/2/56 (J. O'Riordan) 22/2/56 Witness: T O'Gorman (T. O'Gorman) (Investigator) ...
WS Ref #: 226 , Witness: William J Kelly, Member IRB Dungannon, 1880; Clan na Gael, USA, 1880 - 1883; IV Dungannon, 1914
... of the I.R.A. William John Kelly (sen) 22/11/48 William John McCoy 22/11/48 BUREAU OF MILITARY HISTORY ...
WS Ref #: 304 , Witness: James Coughlan, Member IV, Dublin, 1914 - 1916
... useful information. This could be arranged through Seamus Murphy. Ref. Page 15 - Question 22 (also Page 22, Question 2). Personally I was satisfied, as a result of P. H. Pearse's address on Good Friday ...
... 3. APPENDIX - (Continued) on Easter Monday) was originally armed with a 22" miniature rifle, which was issued to him on Good Friday night. Just after entering the South Dublin union (before noon ... Cross wofic and would not be allowed to carry a rifle. McDowell handed over the .22 rifle to someone ...
... -22- Cathal Brugha and spoke to him. When the remainder of the garrison came back, Ceannt ordered some of the officers and others armed with revolvers to occupy the landing overlooking the hail and to fire into the porch between the barricades. Others set about dressing Cathal Brugha's wounds ...
WS Ref #: 742 , Witness: Thomas Halpin, Captain IRA, Tipperary, 1921
... on Kilsheelan and Kilmanahan 20 - 22 13. Planning of attack on Ardfinnan .. 22 - 23 14. Arrested and interned ...
... of about 20 or 22 men. Actually they were called sections at that time, On the Saturday of Holy Week ...
... 22. arrange that most of this would be brought to the railway station where I was employed, and there I locked it up in a toolshed where it remained for a couple of days until I was able to get a carpenter, Bill Cleary, to make boxes to contain the stuff and bring it back to where we had it dumped ...
WS Ref #: 783 , Witness: Thomas Ryan, Commandant IRA, Tipperary, 1921
... R.I.C. Bks. and its sequel 21. - 22 13. A heart-searching examination of myself and of the surrounding circumstances leads to my decision not to accept command of the Flying Column 22 - 27 14 ...
... Pages 20. Change in nomenclature of 5th and 6th Battalions 50 - 51 21. Elaborate arrangements to ambush military train at Dunohill proves abortive 52 - 55 22. Sniping R.I.C. Barracks and trenching roads 55 - 56 23. Ambush at Hyland' Crossroads near Clogheen and capture of D.I. Potter 56 - 59 24 ...
... 22. came about that a new police force would be established, he would be accepted without question. This was his story to me, and his principal purpose in calling was to state his case for application to the Gárda Siochána. Needless to say I didn't recommend him. It was apparent to me in November ...
WS Ref #: 1770 , Witness: Kevin O'Shiel, Judicial Commissioner, Dail Land Courts, 1920 -1922
BMH.WS1770 Section 8.pdf, on page 22
... islands in the River Shannon, namely, Bullock Island - 50 a. 0 r. 22 p. M Island - 12 a. 3 r. 22 p. 63 ...
BMH.WS1770 Section 8.pdf, on page 24
... of Derrysallagh and Cappagh. The landlord agreed to sell at 22 years purchase and divided Derrysallagh and Cappagh, but the tenants would not give 22 years purchase. When the negotiations broke down ...
BMH.WS1770 Section 1.pdf, on page 94
... but from the most unexpected quarters; for example, the "rebel" Corporation of Dublin by 30 votes to 22 ...
BMH.WS1770 Section 1.pdf, on page 23
... 22. set about devising a plan designed to secure the hegemony of their party for the future in the town's affairs that their numbers within the town boundary unquestionably entitled them to. And this plan they lost no time in putting into effect, ignoring the indignant outcry from the Unionist ...
BMH.WS1770 Section 2.pdf, on page 6
... efflorescence in 1916-22. And still less could we foresee that, in that efflorescence, our generation ...
BMH.WS1770 Section 7.pdf, on page 17
... Ireland And Her Agrarian Problem", Dublin, 1906, p.22). In justice, I should say that I did not see any ...
WS Ref #: 911 , Witness: Patrick McKenna, Member IRB, Tyrone, 1916; Captain IRA, Tyrone, 1921
... . Witness John McCoy 22/12/53 (John McCoy) 22.12.53. ...
WS Ref #: 994 , Witness: George F.H Berkeley, Officer IV, 1914
... - 22 - matters turned out, during the next nine months I was, through the Peace with Ireland Council, responsible for providing speakers on the Irish Question to nearly 200 meetings; in every part of England. And of course we found various other ways of spreading our news as well. This I think ...