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WS Ref #: 648 , Witness: Catherine Rooney, nee Byrne; Member Cumann na mBan, 1916
... wkuld come again for more to Belfast before returning to Glasgow. Within a few days we did the same run ... returned to Glasgow and took up the new jobs. At Christmas my employers asked me did I want to come ... the following morning. It was then I decided not to go back to Glasgow and, in a short time, I ...
... Glasgow, James O'Neill of the Citizen Army sent a message to our house that he would like to see Alice ... of the stuff we brought from Glasgow in Liberty Hall. Years afterwards, I heard ... Glasgow. I still had severe head a aches from having carried the gelignite so close to my body which ...
... 15. I remained in Glasgow. till January 1919. I was asked to make another trip to Dublin to bring over gelignite and .303. We were brought at night to a suburban place near Glasgow, Parkhead to meet ... . My mother was ill. Alice went back to her job in Glasgow where she continued to work for the LILA ...
... than me. At that time 1 was just 2l. I take up work in Glasgow. At the end of 1916 my sister, Alice, and I were compelled to go to Glasgow to work. T knew nobody there. About January or February 1917 ...
... in Glasgow 11 XII. I am sent to Dublin with gelignite and ammunition 12 XIII. I resume work in Dublin ...
... 14. We travelled by Crewe and when we came to Holyhead I had the same experience as in Glasgow. They did not want to let us on the boat, but I trotted out the same story and we got on. We were met ... on it to this day. Within a week we were back in Glasgow and I turned up at the Co-operative store where I ...
... in Dublin. He had previously handed us our tickets for the journey. The night before leaving Glasgow I went ...
WS Ref #: 660 , Witness: Thomas Leahy, Member Irish Citizen Army, Dublin, 1916
... ROINN COSANTA. BUREAU OF MILITARY HISTORY, 1913-21. STATEMENT BY WITNESS DOCUMENT NO. W.S. 660 Witness Thomas Leahy, 657 Dumbarton Road, Partick West, Glasgow. Identity. I Member 'E' Company, 2nd Battalion, Dublin Bgde. Irish Volunteers, 1914 Member of Irish Citizen Army. Subject. (a) His national ...
WS Ref #: 1721 , Witness: Seumas Robinson, Officer IV, Dublin, 1916; Senior Officer IV and IRA, Tipperary, 1917 - 1921
... this narrative short I didn't accept the right of the Hierarchy-, and I took the Fenian oath in Glasgow ... to take the I.R.H. manly oath in good faith. The Glasgow Volunteers had many in their ranks who were ... to 1916 in Glasgow, and the daring, the astuteness and ease with which even Scotland Yard was "codded ...
... , learning that I would not go back to Glasgow invited me to Tipperary to help in reorganising ... of the Glasgow Battalion boys ever tried to hide his identity in the camps. We had all previously agreed among ... worked. True, the War Office had had two years experience of the Glasgow "desperados", and I am ...
... SEUMASROBINSON. 1902. Joined the first Fianna (Red Branch Knights); founded by Bulmer Hobson in 1902, Belfast. 1902. Joined "Oscar" junior hurling club, Belfast. 1903. Joined Gaelic League, Glasgow. 1913. December. Joined the Irish Volunteers, (Glasgow. 1916. January. Attached to Kimmage Garrison ...
... , Clonard, Belfast. family had to leave Belfast in 1903 and migrated to Glasgow, where I attended ... in Montcalm and Moncouers, Edinburgh. Joined Gaelic League in Glasgow in 1903. My eldest brother, Joe ...
... Glasgow. We were employed in the Kimmage Garrison making cases for bombs, funny looking bayonets ...
... 64. had already got in before me. They were Seamus Lundy of Liverpool (R.I.P) and Cirnac Turner, a Glasgow Battalion man. Together we broke through the walls into the jewellers', made what barricades we could on the ground floor, and waited all day for the charge we expected to take place at any ...
... 66. The Glasgow Battalion got busy immediately the men began to return home, and I had to handle some of the munitions brought over here ear)y in 1917. I was living at this time (that is while waiting until O'Dwyer was ready) with Joe O'Doherty, T.D. (2nd Dáil) in Andy Clarkin's, Pearse Street ...
... 2. (5) Dan Breen received only two bullet wounds in the Republican Army (a) At Knocklong, below the collar-bone. (b) Thro' the calf of the leg at Azhtown. At Fernside he received cuts only from the broken glass of the green-house. Doctor Alice Barry and certain Cummanna mBan girls attended him ...
WS Ref #: 656 , Witness: Richard O'Connell, Commandant IRA, Limerick, 1921
... -2- Page. 22. Escape plan carried out 29-33. 23. My connection with the I.R.B. and arrest of Martin Barry by orders of that organisation for the shooting of Jim Dalton 33-34. ...
... had done the shooting. certain members of the 2nd Battalion, the Q.M., Martin Barry, in particular, was suspected of the shooting, as far as I know. Barry was a very hard man to get at the time ... Martin Barry after Forde telling me what to do. I took him out to Castleconnell and he was put under ...
... 34. in Limerick. Most of its members in Limerick City belonged to the 1st Battalion. We did not look with high favour on the members. of the 1st Battalion, and the I.R.B. being identified with the 1st Battalion, we did not bother much about it either. This arrest of Barry was the only incident ...
... . Peadar Dunne was made Commandant of the 2nd Battalion; Peadar McMahon was Adjutant, and Martin Barry ...
... to Dr. Corboy in Caherconlish. He came out and fixed up Bill Hayes. We found then that Davy Barry ...
WS Ref #: 807 , Witness: Patrick J Doyle, Parish Priest, Naas, 1952
... ROINN COSANTA. BUREAU OF MILITARY HISTORY, 1913-21. STATEMENT BY WITNESS DOCUMENT NO. W.S. 807 Witness Very Rev. Patrick J. Doyle, P.P., Naas, Co. Kildare. Identity Parish Priest Of Naas, Co. Kildare. Subject. Biographical notes on Gearoid O'Sullivan, Kevin O.Higgins Collins. Conditions, if any ...
... . Open, and when Mass was finished found Kevin in a state of complete exhustion at the end of the Chapel ... for dinner. On Christmas sight 1919, I was dining the brother in Carlow. Kevin was to arrive ... by the servants and myself After dinner I' hurried out to the College and sat with 'Kevin at his lonely Christmas ...
... in demoralising British power, in Ireland. It consisted, as Kevin lovingly remarked, of "himself and Michael do Lacey and one elderly clerk". For sometime, in my talk with Kevin, things were painfully ... said to Kevin "Michael wants you to cone back with mi to lunch with him in the Gresham at 1.30 ...
... about 1 o'clock. I then proceeded to Kevin O'Higgins' Headquarters, where the whole of our Local ... . It consisted, as Kevin lovingly remarked, of "himself and Michael de Lacey and one elderly clerk". For some time, in my talk with Kevin, things were painfully strained for each of us, as neither of us knew ...
... (15) II KEVIN O'HIGGINS When Kevin O'Higgins was obliged to leave Maynooth College owing to infraction of the rule against smoking (a rule that since has been abolished) he was directed by his Bishop ... and as the rooms of the staff were more or less sanctuary, I gave Kevin free use of my room where he could ...
... party he gave one night at the Shelbourne Hotel, Dublin, at which were present his wife, Kevin and Ins ... with a husband. The lady gracefully acknowledged the service rendered Each time that Kevin was about ...
... presence, they shot him dead - again, apparently because he was the father of his song, Kevin, Tom ... , it is only a tiny thorn from Our Lord's Crown". At Knockbeg College, Kevin had met Miss Brigid Cole, ...
... At the luncheon party in the Gresham, Collins presided. In addition to Kevin and myself there were ... that ensued after the acceptance of the majority decision. Kevin O'Higgins often told me of his ...
... 17. 11. Kevin o'Higgins was obliged to leave Maynooth College owing to infraction of the rule against smoking (a rule that since has been abolished), he was directed by his Bishop to resume his ... were more or sanctuary, I gave Kevin free use of my room where he could smoke without infringement ...
... . (when as minister of Justice Kevin was setting new Courts of the National Government he asked Mr ... . At a dinner party he gave one Aught at the Shelbourne Hotel, Dublin1 as which were present his wife, Kevin ...
... , they shot him dead - again, apparently because tie was the father of his sons Kevin, Torn and Brian ... a tiny thorn from Our Lord' a Crown". At Knockbeg College, Kevin had met Miss Brigid ...
... A WEDDING TOAST THJMENCF.l9l6. THE MEN OF 1916 A Toast on the occasion of the Wedding of KEVIN O'HIGGINS, T.D.E. and Miss Brigid Cole, October, 27th. l92l. Mr. President, Very Reverend. Fathers, Ladies and Gentlemen - It has fallen to me to propose the last toast of this happy and memorable day ...
... with Kevin. As. a member of the Cabinet he received each day a verbatim transcript of the negotiations ...
... A WEDDING TOAST THE MEN OF 1916. A Toast on the occasion of the Wedding of KEVIN O'HIGGINS. T.D.E. and MISS BRIGID COLE, October, 27th 1921. Mr. President, Very Reverend Fathers, Ladies and Gentlemen - It has fallen to ins to propose the last toast of this happy and memorable day a the toast ...
... with Michael Collins, George Gavan Duffy, Gearóid O'Sullivan, Kevin O'Higgins and others, in the national ...
... at that boy, Kevin, With a Gun J Shall certainly tell his father in the morning As the car approached ...
... (19) a distinguished member of the Staff, who afterwards became his wife At the marriage breakfast where my neighbour at table was Eamonn de Valera) the Toast of the "Men of 1916" was assigned to me. I append the tent of it During the Treaty negotiations I was in constant touch with Kevin ...
... Duggan, Kevin O'Higgins and others, including Desmond Fitzgerald, who throughout the terror period ...
... gracefully acknowledged the service rendered. Each time that Kevin was about to sit for the Law Final he ...
WS Ref #: 926 , Witness: Kevin McCabe, Member IRB, 1911; IV, Dublin, 1914 - 1916
... ROINN COSANTA. BUREAU OF MILITARY HISTORY, 1913-21. STATEMENT BY WITNESS. DOCUMENT NO. W.S 926 Witness Kevin McCabe, 3 Glasilaun Road, Ballygall Road, Glasnevin, Dublin. Identity Member of I.R.B. Dublin, 1911-; Member of "F" Company, 1st Batt'n. Dublin Bgde., 1914-. Subject. (a) His journey ...
... , first in Galway and then back in Dublin. Signed: Kevin J McCabe Date: 3rd Mar 1954 (Kevin J. McCabe ...
... STATEMENT BY KEVIN McCABE 3 Glasilaun Road, Ballygall Road, Glasnevin. About 1911 I joined the I.R.B. I can't remember the name of the circle, but George Irvine was the Centre. We met at 41 Parnell (Rutland) Square. We paid monthly subscriptions of a shilling. I had been in the Archbishop McHale ...
WS Ref #: 1629 , Witness: Kevin Murphy, Lieutenant Fianna Eireann, Cobh, 1921
... ROINN COSANTA. BUREAU OF MILITARY HISTORY, 1913-21. STATEMENT BY WITNESS. DOCUMENT NO. W.S. 1629. Witness Kevin Murphy, "Mount Alto", Cobh, Co. Cork. Identity. 1st Lieut., Cobh Sluagh, Fianna Éireann. Subject. Fianna activities, Cobh, County Cork, 1914-21. Conditions, if any, Stipulated by Witness ...
... of the barracks when the British garrison evacuated them in 1912. Signed: Kevin Murphy Date: 7th June 1957 ...
... STATEMENT BY KEVIN MURPHY, "Mount Alto". Cobh. Co. Cork. I am a native of Cobh. As far as I can recollect, a sluagh of the Fianna was formed in the town in the year 1913. It was started by a young national teacher named John O'Connor and a man named Philip O'Neill. The latter was an ex-British ...
WS Ref #: 1711 , Witness: Sean F Dockery, Chief of Republican Police, Offaly, 1921
... 12. We were removed from Tullamore to Mountjoy Prison, and were there at the time of Kevin Barry's execution. We were next taken to Wormwood Scrubbs Prison, and finally to Hull Prison, from where we were released in January, 1922. Whilst I was politically opposed to the Treaty, I took no active ...
WS Ref #: 26 , Witness: Patrick S O'Hegarty, Member Supreme Council IRB, London and Dublin, 1902 - 1916
... was this: It was strong and vigorous in Dublin, in London, in Glasgow. in Dublin about 700-1000 members, in London about 100, in Glasgow about 150. It was olive, but wat wing regorions, in belfort ...
... Murphy Liverpool South England PSO Hegarty Glasgow John Mulholland Coopted newters james barrett mourbeter I geraghty Glasgow PCI J allan Dublin PJ Daly, The fowell carpted Member and ...
... of Lyla James Murphy, Liverpool (Shephesper) Glasgow James Gerghty (Tailor) Coopte Members Four ...
... , & Glasgow, A there were Smallen Important centres, Not - Gurecent but not strong na way arline ...
... was an active member of it, Wat the vital a live district were Dublin London, a Glasgow, well sunds groups ...
... John Mulholland, Glasgow (Iron Worber James Barrett, Manchester do not ann whet be conteed at, Cret) Rather Fancy be is hill alive OBoyle was President, Daly Lenetary; a geraghty Treosmer At this nine (1606/7) the organization was in process of re organisation a rebrotl, wat is to soy that it had ...
... to none by day, in connexion will the duly incident geraghty, 9 glasgow, who was treonner resigned wel ...
... (North of England) Ubail Mabes nine, and Croses two Coopted Members one was Dan Branniff (Glasgow) Whe ...
... (40 IRB Constitution the printed one is the full and genmire constitution of 1873 I was orbed by the council in 1913 to revin it, and it will be see wat I had wade c beginning, but the advent of the volunteers and the was diose everthing elso out of our heads. This print was printed in Glasgow I ...
... geveralin was uprencute, Dr Marle Rya, Draulbory MacBride, a Dr David Barry, a 9 the owen meag al were ...
WS Ref #: 1722 , Witness: Seumas Robinson, Officer IV, Dublin, 1916; Senior Officer IV and IRA, Tipperary, 1917 - 1921
... SEUMASROBINSON 1902. Joined the first Fianna (Red Branch Knights); founded by Bulmer Hobson in 1902, Belfast. 1902. Joined "Oscar" junior hurling club, Belfast. 1903. Joined Gaelic League, Glasgow. 1913. December. Joined the Irish Volunteers, Glasgow. 1916. January. Attached to Kimmage Garrison ...
... commonassociation with Belfast and Glasgow. I suppose (also I Hope!) the Gleesons also cleared me of any blame ...