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  • WS Ref #: 1572 , Witness: Padraig Kane, Officer IRA, Carlow, 1921

    • BMH.WS1572.pdf, on page 16

      ... or Carlow Workhouse (the late Mr. W.P. Morrow1 R.I.P.) was a good friend of ours. Jim Lillis's mother ...

  • WS Ref #: 1597 , Witness: Thomas P Waters, Officer, IV & IRA Belfast, Cork & Tipperary, 1921

    • BMH.WS1597.pdf, on page 17

      ... then taken to Nenagh Workhouse hospital, where a nun named Sister Elizabeth took us over. She ordered ...

  • WS Ref #: 1604 , Witness: Albert George Fletcher Desborough, Lewis Gun Instructor, British Army , Dublin, 1916

    • BMH.WS1604.pdf, on page 5

      ... 1916. 3 We carried on down the Inchicore Road and a little later a few of us were turned into a sunken road on the right, immediately behind the South Dublin workhouse. We had not been sitting by the roadside but a few moments, when an intrepid officer of ours, wishing no doubt to find out the lay ...

  • WS Ref #: 1606 , Witness: Patrick Hegarty, Officer IRA, Sligo, Mayo, 1921

    • BMH.WS1606.pdf, on page 23

      ... in the old Workhouse that night and had a comfortable sleep. The Ryan brothers of Castlebar had scouts ...

  • WS Ref #: 1627 , Witness: Charles Conaty, Officer IRA, Meath, 1921

    • BMH.WS1627.pdf, on page 5

      ... attended a meeting in the old workhouse in Delvin. Pat Clinton and other officers of the 4th Battalion ...

  • WS Ref #: 1641 , Witness: Tim Buckley, Officer IV, Clondrohid, Cork, 1916; Officer IRA, County Cork, 1917 - 1921

    • BMH.WS1641.pdf, on page 25

      ... , Caherdowney, Curragh and the western end of kilmeedy. Following the burning of Macroom Workhouse on May ...

  • WS Ref #: 1650 , Witness: Patrick O'Reilly, Captain IRA, Meath, 1921

    • BMH.WS1650.pdf, on page 5

      ... 4. In 1908, the Old Age Pension Act was introduced, granting 5/- per week to a worker at the age of 70 years. The granting of The Old Age Pension kept many a poor man and woman from going to the hated Workhouse. About this time the Irish Labour Party found its way into country districts where ...

  • WS Ref #: 1678 , Witness: William T O'Keeffe, Staff Officer IRA, Mayo, 1920; ASU Manchester, 1920 -1921

    • BMH.WS1678.pdf, on page 5

      ... of the workhouse removed elsewhere and British troops took over. A military town of huts was established ...

  • WS Ref #: 1681 , Witness: Mollie Cunningham, President Cumann na mBan, Macroom, 1916 - 1921

    • BMH.WS1681.pdf, on page 5

      ... was taken to Macroom Castle, where he died. His body was then removed to Macroom Workhouse. It now ...

  • WS Ref #: 1683 , Witness: Patrick Coleman, Lieutenant IV and IRA, County Mayo, 1917 - 1921