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  • WS Ref #: 637 , Witness: Muriel McSwiney, Widow of Terence McSwiney

    • ... in the Workhouse and the Asylum in Cork worried him when he was Mayor. He said to me once that if only ...

    • ... and self sacrificing, and I remember how ter ibly the state of corruption in the workhouse ...

  • WS Ref #: 664 , Witness: Patrick McHugh, Lieutenant IV, Dundalk, 1916; Officer (Munitions) IRA, Dublin, 1921

    • ... got into position about 100 yards from the Workhouse occupiàd premises and opened attack at dawn. I ...

  • WS Ref #: 677 , Witness: Patrick McHugh, Lieutenant IV, Dundalk, 1916; Officer (Munitions) IRA, Dublin, 1921

    • ... 11. to O'Hannigan. He took me aside and told me that he had ordered a general mobilisation for Sunday at 9 a.m. at the Workhouse hill on the Ardee Road. That the armed party would parade at the Boyle's Hall at the same time and march from there to the mobilisation point. For this mobilisation each ...

    • ... 12. to help in effecting our freedom on the side of our oppressors. At 10 a.m. we marched away from the Workhouse towards Ardee, arriving there around 1 p.m. Accompanying us on the march was a horse and trap belonging to Paddy Hughes and driven by Tom Hearty, the oldest man in the Company ...

  • WS Ref #: 708 , Witness: Conor A Maguire, Judge Dail Eireann Courts, 1920 -1922; Attorney General, 1932 - 1936; President High Court, 1936 - 1946; Chief Justice, 1946

    • ... . As a precaution, however, I held my sittings in a different place each day. One was the Workhouse ...

  • WS Ref #: 733 , Witness: James O'Shea, Member Irish Citizen Army, Dublin, 1916

  • WS Ref #: 737 , Witness: Sean Meade, Commandant IRA, Limerick, 1921

    • ... . The Red Cross ambulance came from the old Workhouse, Kilmallock. Miss O'Sullivan was a nurse there. She ...

  • WS Ref #: 744 , Witness: Jeremiah Murphy, (Kanturk) Member IV and IRA, Cork, 1914 - 1921

    • ... at the old Kanturk Workhouse, the details of which were published later in the "Cork Examiner ...

  • WS Ref #: 750 , Witness: Bernard O'Donnell, nee Eithne Coyle; Member Executive Cumann na mBan

    • ... the prisoners' heads with them. The building was a workhouse which had been occupied by the Tans and again ...

  • WS Ref #: 763 , Witness: Seamus McCann, Member IV and IRA, Derry, 1918 - 1921

  • WS Ref #: 782 , Witness: Thomas McShea, Commandant IRA, Donegal, 1921

    • ... 12. bodies who had the care of sick or ailing people in institutions such as Workhouses (as they were then called) and hospitals. One of these cars was given to Ballyshannon Workhouse Hospital. Carney had a check-up made on the movements of the police garrison in Belleek Barracks and he decided ...

    • ... by rail from Finner to Strabane where we were halted for lunch which we had in the Workhouse ...