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WS Ref #: 1336 , Witness: Patrick Lennon, Member IV and IRA, Westmeath, 1917 - 1921
... us with their burnings and shootings and terror tactics. We had no thoughts of quitting the fighting and we were all prepared to carry on Signed: Patrick Lennon (Patrick Lennon) Date: 15 12 55 15.12.55 Witness: Matthew Barry Comd't (Matthew Barry) Comd't ...
... 2. area. Things went on quietly until the threat of conscription overshadowed the country. Big anti-conscription meetings were addressed by Barry Boland, Larry Ginnell, Owen Sweeney and others. The local clery took a big part in this protest against the attempt of the British Government ...
WS Ref #: 720 , Witness: John Kelly, Member IRA, Roscommon, 1921
... -4- compressed. What we heard was the fuse burning which resembled the kettle boiling. A small flat stone would not be recognised as something unusual in a case like this. SIGNED John Kelly (John Kelly) DATE 5 9 52 WITNESS Matthew Barry Comdt (Matthew Barry), Comd't. ...
WS Ref #: 244 , Witness: John McGallogly, Member IRB, Glasgow and Manchester, 1915 - 1921; Member IV, Dublin, 1916; Officer IRA, Manchester, 1921
... on the Glasgow-Edinburgh Road, about ten miles south-east of Glasgow and about a mile distant from ... in Glasgow, and he lied become associated there with Sinn Fein, the Volunteers and the I.R.B. He ...
... ROINN COSANTA. BUREAU OF MILITARY HISTORY, 1913-21. STATEMENT BY WITNESS DOCUMENT NO. W.S. 244 Witness Mr. John McGallogly 46 Eglinton Road, Dublin. Identity Member of I.R.B. Glasgow, 1915; Captain 'A' Company Manchester Area. Subject (a) G.P.O. Dublin, Easter Week 1916; (b) I.R.B. activities ...
... if necessary. From the time I returned to Glasgow after that I gradually ceased to take an active part ... to Glasgow to escort to Manchester and Liverpool a lorry load of arms and ammunition on the track of which the police of Glasgow bad been rather active. He took ill as soon as be reached Glasgow ...
... to go home. Later that day I recovered somewhat, and went to visit my brother in Glasgow His wife ... Station, Glasgow, we took a tram to Paisley, end the train to Ardrossan, then crossed to Belfast ... -member of one of the Glasgow I.R.B. Centres. On calling to his house we were told that he ...
... -4- along with Dempsey. I don't remember how they crossed from Glasgow. They were not on the boat with us, but may have come by Stranraer and Lame. Our object in calling to Dempsey was to get ... was to be raided for two men from Glasgow. She made no useful suggestion as to what we were to do when we left ...
... . In the Camp at this time were men from London, Liverpool, Manchester and Glasgow. I enjoyed the short stay there although conditions were not up to luxury hotel standard. Most of the Glasgow men put ...
... John Doherty because we did not wish to be discovered by the Glasgow police. All were then brought ... pieced a D.M.P. man to watch the Glasgow group because we were laughing at Paddy Moran's remarks ...
... turning out, and to have given a false account afterwards in Glasgow. /I ...
... , whom I had known in Glasgow. He told, me they were on their way to the G.P.O. so I fell ...
... Staines accidently in the street in Glasgow. He did. not tell me /why ...
WS Ref #: 1 , Witness: Thomas Barry, Member IRB, 1895 - 1915
... DOCUMEMENT Ws. 1. Statement by THOMAS BARRY (Pre 1916) On SOME ACTIVITIES OF THE I.R.B. In IRELAND AND ENGLAND 1895 to 1915 File S.29. ...
... mcCabe mibel elcder anfre in sucan tom barry ckemerl in centre salss orfamard or cerels In 1908 ... Michael Collin Who Was on Char The - suth margiare book Barry - m k Segrcie In 1911 I came to Con ... on the night of the demonstration. Tom Kent and Dathi Barry were there. Seán MacDiarmada asked me if he ...
... Thomas Barry, knockbrack, Blackrock ORIGINAL In 1895 I was initiated into the I.R.B. in London by Dr. Mark Ryan, 15A Gower Street. Just prior to that year the G.A.A. in London which had been formed ... . Dr. Mark Ryan was President, either Dr. Anthony. McBride or Dr. David Barry was Treasurer ...
WS Ref #: 939 , Witness: Ernest Blythe, Minister Dail Eireann, 1921
... days over various matters, and Kevin did not come to them. Before the end of a week, however, he ... , however; that the whole incident left Kevin with somewhat stronger feelings against General Mulcahy. In fact, after that, Kevin seldom referred to him in ordinary conversation otherwise than as "Mull ...
... Keady, who had made a great deal of fun of Kevin O'Higgins earlier, had brought in a feather mattress ... from Keady, and he had a wonderful sly sense of humour. He approached Kevin O'Higgins one day ... wished to do justice to the occasion and asked Kevin to write a speech for him. Kevin thought ...
... Fitzgerald was before me. We both agreed to the suggestion. It then came to the turn of Kevin O'Higgins. Kevin, as I have already said, perhaps because he had some legal training and perhaps, also ... over again for his benefit and he, like Kevin O'Higgins, hesitated somewhat before agreeing. He asked ...
... discussing it with him, suggesting improvements, additions and excisions. Kevin often told us about ... speech, showing that all the time he had been codding Kevin while Kevin thought he was codding him ...
... warders looking at them". The "collar and tie" men, of whom Kevin O'Higgins was one, being very lightly ... being held down on the ground by four others while Kevin poured a large bucket of water over him ...
... 143. The story of the taking over of Dublin Castle has often been told. It was related to me by Kevin O'Higgins, who was actually with Collins when he went to meet the British representative ... pausing in his step, throwing over his shoulder the answer: "Like hell we are". Kevin O'Higgins had a lot ...
... , however, the choice fell on Michael Hayes. On Collins's death Kevin O'Higgins, who had been serving ... and Griffith, but he was not in any sense regarded as having a right of succession. Kevin O'Higgins ...
... believe that they did on occasions effect contact and exchange shots with Irregular groups. Kevin ... ended when Kevin O'Higgins came back from the Army after Collins's death and on the assembly of Dail ...
... command and having extended the territory of the other. One morning I became aware that Kevin ... who had been handling them had locked them away. Ultimately, Kevin succeeded in getting them from Mr ...
... 181. had been deliberately planted. Personally I was never as excited about these crimes and suspicions as Kevin, Paddy Hogan and Desmond Fitzgerald were. I felt that, however wrong, such things were ... the people with whom Kevin was in contact, he was certainly getting more frantic about Army misbehaviour ...
... with a trifling emendation or as it stood. Kevin O'Higgins, like every other member of the Cabinet, fully ... on the wording of the statement. I never heard Kevin O'Higgins speak about the statement at all. It never ...
... of Paddy Fleming, was Vice Commandant. Amongst the prisoners, in Belfast were Kevin O'Higgins, Seamus ...
... whom we heard described as Scottish-Irish They were under an officer with a Glasgow accent ...
... a play entitled "Let us Spray" was performed, about which the only thing I remember was that Kevin ...
... as I remember, pretty good. Kevin O'Higgins regularly contributed a serious article once a fortnight ...
... . There was continuous practical joking in the prison. Kevin O'Higgins was one of a crowd of water-throwers who caused ...
... l24. meetings from that time on to the Truce. Kevin O'Higgins also attended. Incidentally, I may remark that that was the only meeting of any sort during the whole period at which I saw Collins under the influence of drink. He undoubtedly had had too many that night and wasted a good deal of time ...
... 139. Kevin O'Higgin's, though as yet he was not very influential in the Cabinet, was entirely of the opinion that civil war was coming and that we ought not to shirk it. He several times ug urged his views on Collins. He told me once that he had said to Collins: "If I had your ability and your ...
... like those used by Kevin O'Higgins afterwards, saying that if ever a chance arose to stab us ...
... of the wives came in. Mrs. Kevin O'Higgins, Mrs. J.J. Walsh and my wife were amongst them. What had ...
... there. The people actually living in, as far as I remember now, were Liam T. Cosgrave, Kevin O'Higgins, Paddy ...
... to apply sufficient counter terror to neutralise the terror which was being used against us. After Kevin ...
... , Kevin O'Higgins was firm all the time for having the Guards unarmed. I do not know what views O'Duffy ...
... not discuss the matter with Kevin O'Higgins, or if I did, I have forgotten anything he may have ...
... . Desmond was more reasonable, and it was plain to me from his talk that Kevin would not carry out ...
... , to take the post. I was present at the inter-view which Mr. Cosgrave and Kevin O'Higgins had with him ...
... with Liam Mellows. Kevin O'Higgins had been an intimate friend of Rory O'Connor. Possibly other ...
... Johnny Sweeney and Martin Barry, we decided that it would be impossible to stir those in charge ...
WS Ref #: 803 , Witness: Michael Sheerin, Officer IV and IRA, Derry, Tyrone and Donegal, 1914 - 1921
... 4. Harland & Wolff's Diesel Works in Glasgow and later to Messrs. Camel Laird's Birkenhead. During my time in Glasgow I acted as an escort for Mr. Eamon de Valera on a visit he paid to Glasgow where he addressed a meeting in St. Andrew's Hall, Anderson. I had attached myself to the Glasgow ...
... 1. APPENDIX 6. THE GLASGOWBATTALION I.R.A During the period we regarded the Glasgow Battalion as our neighbours. We co-operated on many questions and it was a unit I admired. We had plenty ... , Port Glasgow and other small towns of the Clyde. The O/C. of the Battalion was from Motherwell - I ...
... of the Period. Appendix 5. G.H.Q. Details. Appendix 6. Glasgow Battalion I.R.A. Appendix 7. Settler ...
... 3. Appendix 5 - contd. LIAISON. OTHER UNITS. See Glasgow Battalion. (Appendix 6). ENFORCEMENTOF ANTI-FRATERNISATION MEASURES. These measures were enforced through the medium of unarmed combat. As I have already said, Derry was a garrison town. Our first target about the end of 1917 was the Royal ...
... the crew and get the ship ready for sea. When Carty was rescued by the Glasgow Battalion he ...
WS Ref #: 922 , Witness: James W Cunningham, Member IRB, Glasgow, 1918; Officer IRA, Glasgow, 1921
... ROINN COSANTA. BUREAU OF MILITARY HISTORY, 1913-21. STATEMENT BY WITNESS. DOCUMENT N0. W.S. 922 Witness James W. Cunningham, Carrick. Co. Donegal. Identity. Member of I.R.B. Glasgow, 1918 - ; Officer in charge of purchase of munitions in Birmingham for I.R.A., 1920 Subject. Collection of munitions ...
... with the Volunteer movement at home. I myself, had joined the I.R.B. movement in Glasgow in 1918 but through ... Man's Umbrella" in Glasgow. ...
... ) would show, I am sure, that the flow of "stuff" from all over England to the ports of Glasgow ...
WS Ref #: 222 , Witness: Daniel Branniff, Member Dungannon Clubs, Belfast and England, 1907; Member Supreme Council IRB, 1912 - 1914
... 3• Glasgow made rapid progress. Joe Robinson was an officer in the Volunteers, and a man named Kearney, who had been in the American Army, was in charge. Another Volunteer Officer in Glasgow was Seamus Dempsey, who is now in America. Associated with the Irish Volunteers in Glasgow was a Sluagh ...
... in Glasgow in 1907. In. the Circle which I joined was James McCu11ough an old Fenian who had served ... Brotherhood Centres in districts outside. Glasgow, including Edinborough, Motherwell, Hamilton, Bellshill ... . The organisation of the Irish Vo1unteers started in. Glasgow in 1913. The nucleus of the Irish ...
... or Hibernians (American Alliance). I went to Glasgow in l907. When I arrived in Glasgow, there was a Sinn ...
WS Ref #: 231 , Witness: Peter Clifford, Member IV, Louth, 1915 - 1916
... -8- was handcuffing me that I would be charged with murder. I was then taken to the courthouse where I found some of the other men who were arrested. I was taken to Dundalk jail, to Richmond Barracks and later to Barlinnie Prison in Glasgow. Afterwards I was taken to Frongoch in Wales. I ...
WS Ref #: 339 , Witness: Pat McCormack, Member Supreme Council IRB, 1915 - 1917
... with the Belfast men on Saturday to Dungannon and that Dan was to remain in Belfast and meet the Glasgow boat due to arrive there on Sunday morning and put the Glasgow men travelling on it in touch ... of the Glasgow men travelled to Belfast on Sunday morning. There was about 40 to 50 young Glasgow men already ...
... came whom I cannot now remember. Whenever an election in the I.R.B. was held in Glasgow, we invariably ... a lecture - Cumann na nGael or later the Sinn Fain members. We had in Glasgow an old Invinuible - Denis ... in one of our Glasgow Circles 2 men -one named McCann and the other named McCullough - who took art ...
... in the Midlands or Southern England. Miss Nora Connolly came to Glasgow with a message which ... Connolly had instructions to call at my address in Glasgow (Mrs. Eakin, 339 Cathcart Road), Bringing ... their arrival. immediately left my work and met them in Glasgow. I inquired from Mellows where Ernest ...
... STATEMENT BY PATRICK McCORMICK, CUSHENDUN, CO. ANTRIM. I Joined the I.R.B. in Scotland in 1899. The circle I Joined was in Glasgow. In 1899 there were circles in Glasgow, Fife, Stirling, Lanark and Renfrew. In 1901 or 1902 a circle was started in Dumbarton which ceased to exist after a short time ...
... of Circle. Head of Circle. Lanarkshire, Glasgow Townhead Terry Fitzpatrick, Central Central Danl. Branniff ... McBride came over and gave lecture in the Albion Hall, College St. Glasgow. The ...
... towns of Britain. When I joined the Central Circle in Glasgow most of the members were old men in our ... they came to Glasgow. I was appointed District Centre of the I.R.B. 1908 by general convention of all ...
... not get any further instructions of any importance. Liam Pedlar came to Glasgow about the first days of Holy Week or the last days of week preceding. He was sent to Glasgow by Sean ...
... and in England and Scotland. Sean McGarry went with me to Glasgow for the election in Scotland. I ...