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  • WS Ref #: 1685 , Witness: Michael McMahon, Vice-Commandant West Clare Brigade, IRA, 1921

    • ... in this battalion area. These books were kept in the District Council offices at Kilrush Workhouse where ...

    • ... was in progress, covering positions were also to be held by I.R.A. parties in front of the Workhouse ...

    • ... . Brigade Commandant Sean Liddy was in charge of covering party on the military post (Workhouse ...

  • WS Ref #: 1690 , Witness: Nora Cunningham, Member Cumann na mBan, Macroom, 1917 - 1923

    • ... . The wounded man was taken to Macroom Castle where he died and his body was then removed to the Workhouse ...

  • WS Ref #: 1715 , Witness: Sean Boylan, Captain IV, Meath, 1914 - 1916; Senior Officer IRA, Meath, 1918 - 1921

    • ... that their next meeting was to be held at the Workhouse, Dunshaughlin. With twelve Volunteers I arrived ...

    • ... 27. During the period, I paid a couple of visits to G.H.Q. where I reported the position in the area. Eventually I was asked to arrange for a meeting of all officers in the brigade area, at which an officer from G.H.Q. would be present. The meeting was held in the old Workhouse at Delvin ...

  • WS Ref #: 1716 , Witness: Sean MacKeon, OC Longford Brigade IRA, 1921; Member Dail Eireann, 1929; Cabinet Minister, 1948

    • ... 86. information and knowledge of the organisation and personnel in the 1st Battalion area. He was placed under strict supervision, but one day he escaped, and was captured at Longford workhouse, within a mile of the barracks. He was then courtmartialled with attempting to convey information ...

  • WS Ref #: 1718 , Witness: Michael O'Droighneain, Captain IV, Galway, 1916; OC Connemara Brigade, IRA, 1920 - 1921

  • WS Ref #: 1719 , Witness: Dan Corkery, Member IRB Cork, 1913 - 1916

    • ... , but the remainder escaped. Some days later, Macroom Workhouse was raided by the members of the local ...

    • ... , that the British proposed. to occupy Macroom Workhouse. Arrangements were immediately made ...

  • WS Ref #: 1732 , Witness: Michael Henry, Officer IRA, Mayo, 1921

    • ... by Volunteers. A Court with the status of a Circuit Court today, was held in the Workhouse, Belmullet. Our ...

    • ... 7 justify firing on future Courts. Two lorries of Tommiescame from (Castlebar, including a machine-gun section. One Paddy Keane, John. Weston and I, raised the swing bridge at Belmullet after the lorries crossed, with a view to their isolation. The bridge separated the town from the Workhouse ...

  • WS Ref #: 1769 , Witness: Patrick J Little, Irish Representative, South Africa and Argentina, 1920 - 1921; Minister Dail Cabinet, 1939 - 1948

    • ... 43. take place - I think it was the workhouse - I realised that I was surrounded by British military, but I still went into the building, and met the people there. Then I was surrounded, and closely question. I happened to have some printed papers belonging to the Local Government Board, and I ...

  • WS Ref #: 858 , Witness: Seamus Finn, Officer IRA, Meath, 1921

    • ... him attended to by Dr. T.J. Lynch who had removed to the Hospital section of the local Workhouse ...

  • WS Ref #: 1451 , Witness: Edmund Tobin, Officer IRA, Limerick, 1921

    • ... the patient. Nurse O'Sullivan of the Workhouse Hospital in Kilmallock attended but sent for her ...