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  • WS Ref #: 707 , Witness: Michael Noyk, Legal Adviser to IRA, 1921

    • ... work. I think he was connected with the Kevin Barry case. It is mentioned by Piaras Beaslai in his ... in the questioning of Kevin Barry. ...

    • ... Kevin Barry? You Know", he added, "I am Captain Hardy. None of the others were aware ...

    • ... 32. then turned to me and said: "What do you do?" I summoned all the coolness I could command, knowing the reputation of this "gentleman", replying: "I am a solicitor". Again he said "Ow! Do you know Duggan, the solicitor? He has A accused me of torturing Kevin Barry". "Oh, yes", said I, "I know ...

    • ... of Local Government Board in Wicklow Street, at No. 29. This office was used by Kevin O'Higgins ...

    • ... be inclined to report the cases. I attended Courts all over the city. I recall a Court we had in Kevin ...

  • WS Ref #: 384 , Witness: J.J. (Sceilg) O'Kelly, Editor 'Catholic Bulletin', 1916; Speaker of Dail Eireann, 1919

    • ... -21- in the slum areas of places like Birmingham, Sheffield, Newcastle-on-Tyne, Glasgow, Manchester ... -street, Glasgow, I used to meet Canon Fitzgerald who was a Cahirciveen man; in Springburn, Fr. John Lynch from the same place; at St. Andrew's Cathedral, Fr. David Barry; at Coatbridge, Fr. Christie ...

    • ... , Josephine, and Alice who soon entered a convent. Margaret Sheehy arid. Olive Barry, two nieces of Lord Mayor McCoy, were on our Committee also. Miss Sheehy used to recite, Miss Barry to sing as well ...

    • ... asmuch as Michael Collins said; and Kevin O'Higgins didnot thinkit appropriate thatheshould speak when ...

  • WS Ref #: 870 , Witness: Charles Shelly, Member IV and IRA, Dublin, 1915 - 1921

    • ... -9- The Company was mobilised in North Great George's Street to take part in an attempted rescue of Kevin Barry who was under sentence of death in Mountjoy Prison. This was to have been a Brigade operation but it was called off. In the late summer of 1920 the Company was mobilised for an ambush ...

  • WS Ref #: 972 , Witness: Thomas Cleary, Lieutenant IV and IRA, Waterford, 1914 - 1921

    • ... , Michael O'Neill, Patrick and Nicholas Quinlan, Kevin Corbert, John and Tom Wyley, Liam Walsh, Seán Lane, Tom Kirwan, Seán Cooper, Peadar Woods, Denis Barry, Martin Noonan, Michael Fanning and myself, who ...

    • ... to the I.R.A. Commandant Peadar Woods left Waterford for Galway and Denis Barry, a Corkman, took over ... , Commandant Barry went back to Cork when Capt. Seán Matthews ...

  • 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

    • ... arrest and visits Birr: Court Sitting - Birr - Mr. William Barry Solicitor. 13 12. The Mayo County ... Collins, Gearóid O'Sullivan, •Rory O'Connor, Art O'connor, Kevin O'Shiel and witness. 14. The year 1921 ...

    • ... a revolver. "What's going on here?", he demanded. "This", said Kevin O'Shiel, "is a Court of the Irish ... " came the bullying reply. Turning to us, Kevin 0'Shiel said quite calmly: "Gentlemen, we must yield ... to outside areas and deal with the cases locally. For several days Kevin O'Shiel moved about ...

    • ... agrees to send two independent arbitrators: Kevin O'Shiel and Art O'connor selected: Court meets ...

    • ... eventually agreed to do as suggested. Those he sent were Kevin O'Shiel - now Mr. Commissioner ...

    • ... first experience of a secret sitting outside Dublin was at Mullingar. Kevin O'Shiel had come ...

    • ... been arranged that. Kevin O'Shiel should hold the Courts there. He, however, was unable to go ...

    • ... . The proprietor and waiters all knew them. We - Art O'Connor, Kevin O'Shiel and myself - went ...

    • ... abandoned our plan to hold the Court in a hall. Mr. William Barry, however, with considerable courage ...

  • WS Ref #: 727 , Witness: Michael J Lawless, Member IV and IRA, Dublin, 1915 - 1921

    • ... Barracks. I was detailed for the attempted reserve of Kevin Barry from mountjoy during which some of us ...

    • ... of Raheny barracks I was detailed for the attempted rescue of Kevin Barry from Mountjoy during which ...

  • WS Ref #: 586 , Witness: Kathleen O'Donovan, Sister of Harry Boland, killed 1922; Wife of Senator Sean O'Donovan

    • ... learned that Seán was very much "on the run". While Kevin Barry was in gaol awaiting execution, Mick ... were made for the rescue of Kevin from the gaol. It must have been the night before the execution ...

    • ... of the ambush in North King Street, in which Kevin Barry was arrested, a young man, called Keating, who ...

    • ... to the Adjutant General who would not see me. He sent the Assistant Adjutant General, Kevin ...

    • ... . Muriel McSwiney and Linda Kearns, who had gone on their own initiative, Austin Stack, Kathleen Barry ...

  • WS Ref #: 348 , Witness: E. Gerrard, British Army Officer in Dublin, 1916 -1921

    • ... 9. I was in Somaliland with Captain W.G. MacKay, Royal Artillery, who was Intelligence Officer in charge of Kevin Barry before he was executed, His job was to see he did not escape. He said he was very struck with the high gallantry of Barry all the time. Smyth, an Army Officer, who was seconded ...

  • WS Ref #: 363 , Witness: Maire Ni Bhriain, Associated with Cumann na mBan, 1915; Publicity Department, Dail Eireann, 1919 - 1921

    • ... when Kevin Barry was executed the students of Barcelona Univereity had Mass celebrated for him in one ... collection for the prisoners' dependents, mead Madge Barry, ...

    • ... 2. Kevin Izod O'Doherty and his wife "Eva" of the Nation. Visiting them was a great pleaaure for my father and the two O'Learys My father's health broke down. He returned to Dublin where a Dublin consultant, Sir Dominic Carrigan, advised him to knock about for a while. Being very desirous ...

    • ... with a few others, mainly Madge Barry, in distributing propaganda for the Irish Republic through ...

  • WS Ref #: 863 , Witness: H. Warren Hutchinson, Member Sinn Fein, IV and IRA, Glasgow, 1913 - 1921

    • ... , Glasgow, 1913 - ; Member of I.R.A., Glasgow, later. Subject. His associations with Sinn Fein and I.R.A., Glasgow, 1913-1922. Conditions, if any, Stipulated by Witness. Nil File No. S.1995 Form B.S.M.2 ...

    • ... . When he came over he was not allowed to come within about ten miles of Glasgow. I had control ... ; ladies gave jewellery, and there were pound notes galore. As we drove back to Glasgow our car ... . We had a number of meetings around Glasgow, and we hired a different car each day ...

    • ... MILITARY HISTORY My first 'military' drilling was at school, in Saint Aloysius' College, Glasgow. One of our masters was an ex- British soldier, but he had Fenian blood in his veins. Now on St ... founded the famous club (Glasgow) Celtic, recently fighting to have our national flag flying. My ...

    • ... 3, Then the Rising and the executions. Thd only one I knew was Connolly; we had a mutual friend in Glasgow named Bradley, in whose house I met him several times. Then of course Sinn Fein spread like wildfire and was practically another name for the I.R.A. - certainly in Glasgow and in Scotland ...

    • ... , Tom Kerr, now Lord Provost of Glasgow - who spoke at the Saint Patrick's Day concert in Glasgow ...

    • ... . They said that was the limit. So I returned to Glasgow and went up to report to Roslyn Mitchell. He ... , we must accept it - we would never be able to hold our heads up in Glasgow - and we were family ...

    • ... 5. loss would be very great. A number of years afterwards I was back in Glasgow and was told that I need not have resigned. Of course, they acted in this way because they regarded me as a soldier. I then started a business with a partner - Hutchinson & Daly, Ltd. Daly was not Irish but a Scotch ...

    • ... successful public meetings for Arthur Griffith. Every available hall was taken in Glasgow, Edinburgh ...

    • ... 9. Finally after three months we were liberated, and again P. O'Keeffe was kind and again he gave me kind treatment, on the lorry to the steamer - and as is known he ultimately became sympathetic to Fianna Fail, along with his sister Mrs. Wyse Power. On arrival in Glasgow we had a great reception ...