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Last updated: Wed 4 Aug 2021, 8:57 AM 1049b. Former site of Tuckey Street RIC barracks, now the present day site of the St Vincent de Paul offices. (picture: Kieran McCarthy) Remembering 1920: The gathering of intelligence Published: Last updated: Wed 4 Aug 2021, 8:57 AM The witness statements of the Bureau of Military History offer much insight into the Irish War of Independence. There is much to glean from the Cork context on IRA activity and the gathering of intelligence by Cork Brigade No. 1 across April and May 1920. Michael Murphy (Commandant, 2nd Battalion Cork No. 1 Brigade, O/C, Cork No. 1 Brigade Active Service Unit/witness statement 1547) relates that early in the month of April 1920, an order was received from General Head Quarters Dublin, to the effect that all income tax offices should be burned at the same time on a fixed date. This action was to be taken all over the ....
Remembering the Past - 100 years ago • (clockwise from top left) Patrick Doyle, Frank Flood, Bernard Ryan, Thomas Whelan, Patrick Moran and Thomas Bryan » Mícheál Mac Donncha 100 years ago the British regime executed six IRA Volunteers in Mountjoy Jail, Dublin. They were hanged on the morning of 14 March as tens of thousands of people, including their families, gathered outside the prison and as hundreds of thousands of workers staged a half-day general strike in protest. The six men were tried by the British Army at Field General Courts Martial in the Council Chamber of Dublin’s City Hall. The City Hall had been seized by the British Army the previous December because the City Council had pledged allegiance to Dáil Éireann and the Irish Republic. Now in a callous and calculated act, the very chamber where the Council met was used to put on trial six soldiers of the Republic, their judges being officers of the Army they had fought against. ....