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WS Ref #: 1493 , Witness: Sean Cotter, Officer IRA, Cork, 1921
... Battalion, at this stage, included Bantry area and Schull peninsula. As the area was very scattered, it was decided to organise a battalion based in Dunmanus area Schull Peninsula. Seán Lehane ...
WS Ref #: 869 , Witness: P.J. Murphy, Captain Fianna Eireann, Cork, 1912 - 1916
... Walsh fell into bad health and they transferred him to the Cork Workhouse. One night in February, 1921, he was brought out on a stretcher to the backgate of the workhouse and shot dead by the I.R.A. ...
... 25 4. Michael Walsh ex-British Army, shot dead at back gate of the Workhouse. 5. Paddy Connors, ex Volunteer, shot in New York. As I already stated, a number of us were sleeping in barns and outbouses in the Clogheen area. On this particular night, the 13th January, 1921, the party included Liam ...
WS Ref #: 1623 , Witness: Luke Bradley, Vice-Commandant IRA, Meath, 1921
... training camp was set up in the Workhouse at Delvin. John Corrigan, Battalion 0/C., was in charge ...
WS Ref #: 1007 , Witness: Daniel Ryan, Officer IV and IRA, Galway, 1917 - 1921
... in the workhouse grounds Gort. We came in there from cross-country, entering the grounds at the back of the workhouse. We had an appointment with Michael Kelly, Gort Company Intelligence Officer, who ... at the wicket gate to the left as you leave the workhouse. We could not be seen by the R.I.C. owing ...
... at the back of the workhouse ready to move into planned positions in the Street when Michael Kelly ... that the workhouse was surrounded by military and R.I.C. We withdrew immediately. We learned about a fortnight later that a courting couple were in the workhouse grounds the first night we were ...
WS Ref #: 1316 , Witness: John Flanagan, Commandant IRA, Clare, 1921
... and the Workhouse, the Marines and the Military attempted to send out detachments to go ... to the Coastguard Station opened fire on them. At the Workhouse the men under Bill Hough had orders ... a hasty retreat into the shelter behind the Workhouse walls. No further attempt was made by either ...
... 18. vehicle leaving the Workhouse in Kilrush where the military were stationed, and follow the direction in which it was going. The headlights of the vehicles made their movements at night even more ... Clare Brigade, to cover off the entrance to thin building. 2. Workhouse. Eight men under Bill Hough ...
... stationed in Kilrush Workhouse, occupied a house in Kilmore Knock and they remained there until May ...
... in considerable strength. There were three separate posts :- No. 1. - The Workhouse on the northern ...
WS Ref #: 1322 , Witness: Art O'Donnell, Commandant IRA, Clare, 1921; Paymaster Clare County Council, Dail Eireann, 1919 - 1921
... to hold the next meeting in the Board-room at Ennis Workhouse. The Board readily granted permission ... to proceed to the Workhouse, which they did, and on reaching there went to the Board-room and occupied ... commenced. In a short time the Master of the Workhouse, Mr. Frank Barrett, came into the Board-room ...
WS Ref #: 762 , Witness: Liam McMullen, Member IRB, Ballycastle, 1908; Captain IRA, Antrim, 1919 - 1921
... I could not get rid of. I was arrested and taken towards Ballycastle Workhouse where the Specials ... threaten to throw me out and shoot me; they were all drunk. They brought me into the Workhouse with my ... into the Workhouse and some of them had come to find out if they could get in touch with me. One incident ...
WS Ref #: 1632 , Witness: Michael McHugh, Comandant IRA, Mayo, 1921
... on to Claremorris where the British military occupied the old Workhouse. Comdt. Pat Kenny and a number ... transferred to the Workhouse hospital as it was more enclosed. We took him there until a few days later ... the Workhouse. The fact of the patrol did not worry me as much as the lady talking about it, as it showed ...
WS Ref #: 1734 , Witness: Sean Farrelly, Brigade Vice-Commandant IRA, Meath, 1921
... was again handcuffed and ant in a lorry end driven to the Workhouse in Dunshaughlin where I was put ... of a neighbour of ours whon I saw on the roadside. My companions in the Workhouse were a filthy, motley ... . in Dunshaughlin. Whenhe heard I was in the Workhouse be came to see me. I explained to him that I ...
WS Ref #: 1578 , Witness: John J O'Sullivan, Officer IRA, Cork, 1921
... 22. As far as I can recollect, the officers of Bantry Battalion, Cork III Brigade, between 1918 and the Truce on 11th July 1921, were: March 1918 O/C. Dan O'Mahoney V.O/C. Michael Murray Adjt. Ted O'Sullivan Q.M. August 1919 O/C. Ted O'Sullivan V.O/C. Sean Lehane (To organise Schull, May 1920) Adjt ...
... , was allocated to the job of organising the Schull Peninsula area which up to now had been ...
... .0/C), Sean Cotter (adjutant), Con Sullivan, Sean Lehane (0/C. Schull Battalion), Dan Mahoney, Nick ...
... landed at Bantry about this time and were billeted in the Workhouse there, the men in these sections ...