ROINN COSANTA. BUREAU OF MILITARY HISTORY, 1913

ROINN
BUREAU
OF
COSANTA.
MILITARY
STATEMENT
DOCUMENT
HISTORY,
BY
NO.
WITNESS
424
W.S.
Witness
Geraldine
Mrs.
1913-21.
Dillon,
New Line,
Ten,
Galway.
Identity
Sister
of Joseph
executed
M. Plunkett,
1916.
Subject
Co.
Galway
1920.
Conditions, if any, stipulated by Witness
Nil
File No.
S.60
FormB.S.M.2.
OF
SECOND STATEMENT
GERALDINE
MRS.
DILLON
GALWAY.
NEW LINE,
10,
(PLUNKETT)
BLACK AND TAN PERIOD:
of
Beginning
came
soldiers
the
Castle
O'Hara
towns
there
were
of
of
as
were
not
themselves
to
them
and
the
fourteen
of
property
and
villages
At
than
police
more
over
ones.
bigger
and
the
last
civilians,
thousand
women
men,
Galway.
were
were
such
the
soldiers
the
the
all
to
more
took
grounds,
in
into
recruits
numbers,
(Auxiliaries)
R.I.C.
brought
Tan
and
increasing
extensive
the
armed
More
children
They
Cadets
and
were
The Auxies
and
the
its
Black
1920
in
with
thousand
twenty
of
Galway
Galway
family,
small
and
into
arrived,
Lenaboy
in
terror
summer
the
During
R.I.C.
the
welcomed
accepted
insulted
to
supposed
by
be officers
and
by the
friends
of
"high"
society
and
by the
the
old
Garrison.
thought
with
discrimination,
gentlemen,
amusing
results.
The
to
get
at
out
last.
without
reports
now stopped
ill-health
know
rebels
with
the
better.
as
it
The
numbers,
the
of
hated
always
were
R.I.G.
they
and
or
and
were
section
without
means
of
those
like,
they
into
those
could,
and
to
going
had
already
pensions,
and
identification
of
on so much.
depended
the
as
quickly
first
or
divided
sharply
who
tried
were
to
get
beaten-up
their
get
who wanted
those
opportunity
in
resigned
this
left
suspects
the
to
on the
teach
large
Castle
and without
were
Resignations
out
who had
of
plea
them
to
-2This
and
stroll
the
to
to
order
C.I.
to
trouble
started.
rapid,
his
of
the
old
in
children
seemed
left,
their
scenario.
and
him
this
sister
divorce
to
were
Their
Colonel,
because
Palestine
and
sixfooter
to
a good
leave
him.
family
They
and
as silly
the
that
a good
deal
Col.
of
when
amusing
a
died
The
he
his
another
who had
offered
her
any
wife
of
but
not
the
get
if
and
a
in
the
them
they
with
to
that
money
on drink
any
afterwards
said
to
money
film
could
married
their
as
man
who was
spent
time
engaged
They
they left.
by the
got
He was
T.B.
their
a Catholic,
being
poor
Catholic!
of
and
brought
his
divorce
brought
fantastic
Guard
be married,
of
when
behind
lunatics
and
Tan.
he was
sets
Some
day!
them
of
was made
more
police
one
in
to
supposed
Twenty-six
some left
lives
a Black
town.
be a set
point
or
married,
the
and
us to
it
took
and
and
a while
except
a rule
was
England
After
torture.
as
the
every
to
loyalty
indistinguishable,
on them
them
made
of
and
the
when
and
it
and
sections
be a D.I.
his
it
in
both
in
insolent.
in
a great
only
were
who were
served
with
They
showed
maim
kill,
being
lodgings
were
papers
he
was
stay
bear
lived
among
to
to
murder
for
usually
hope
knew who we were
R.I.C.
in
Tans
asked
not
a mark
him
Promotion
could
lots
two
The Auxies
lived
R.I.C.
to
the
pleasure
and
provided
willingness
worst
made
constable
a C.I.,
he could
go on the
MacAvinue,
was
and
time
but
This
the
every
sergeant
short
a
Black
with
ddy
for
if
would
Fidelis
better
had
they
brother-in-law,
information,
leave.
that
someone
for
get
managed
barracks
warn
as
Abbey
Father
afterwards
minutes
For
the
to
barracks
police
could.
they
across
slip
the
in
friends
information
Allen's
Michael
or
would
few
and
along
run.
of
a
and
Confession
clerk
the
a constable
instance,
in
us all
gave
they
a lot
us with
left
brassy-haired
belonged
she
lived
would
on
-3pigs,
drank
anything,
stole
They
sent
and
heard
from
extra
them
from
amongst
the
them
tide
O'Malley
took
the
was
trying
order
The
their
and
waited
did
start
when
interested
they
did
knew
Up to
really
from
them,
insane
the
this
were
in
the
the
how bitter
this,
their
jealousy
of
as
a pub,
bullets,
with
save
to
pretend
his
the
life,
the
Murder
bad
one
threw
man had
were
Gang
been
in
Michael
was
house
night,
him
When Dr.
that
which
bed
of
even
a gentleman.
and
officer
by
fought
They
Some were
out
in
stolen.
sent
Christmas.
matches
We
their
were
were
guns.
rum.
petticoat,
things
they
an
and
souvenirs.
poultry
at
friends
of
red
wonderful
with
to
Tans
raided,
been
shot
stationed
commandeered
clothes
start.
It
the
crowd
thought
handed
by
in
also
during
between
was
old
were
it
amount
neighbours.
was
official
did
not
surprised
decent
the
enough
information
information
due
to
did
wicked
it
had
all
they
gang,
killing.
at
many
a day
when
murder
R.I.C.
was
that
they
This
the
the
pound
freely.
surprised
them
the
known
with
happily
their
with
loot
for
on all
All
down
engaged.
but
were,
certain
to
except
and
settled
new
were
and,
old
they
to
they
had
a
and
be allowed
neighbours.
however;
lady's
their
of
fun
they
they
thought
old
realise
Office
Black
looting
who knew
gin
the
parcels
bought
would
told
Those
and
they
been
whiskey,
England
not
Official
friends,
for
and
They
Galway.
Cadets
lady
people.
to
Rockbarton,
to
did
him
The
visits
their
of
country
unbecoming
a box
riddled
Retreat,
in
Post
one
and
Féiners.
friends
of
conduct
in
the
sometimes
about
apparently
down to
and
Galway
for
Bovril
England
getting
a row
Sinai
in
themselves,
Some of
the
their
train-loads
dismissed
after
to
people
were
Nine
of
everything,
from
stolen
ducks
mixtures
them
friends
and
hens
loot,
this,
they
people.
and
they
they
not
never
gathered
come from
spite
and
-4the
sack
towns
in
After
all
small
The
logical
and
expect
D.
I.
Hildebrand
in
Galway.
time
in
sent
been
due
in
West,
from
the
the
"missing"
for
asked
in
McGloin
do political
with
position
to
and
resigned.
for
about
Tans
and
at
a hotbed
The
minute
books
vain.
Some time
of
R.I.C.
the
for
the
they
town
it
on Seamus
which
and
promised
side.
to
did
went
to
to
commission
the
Igoe
the
L.G.B.
was
to
at
Black
join
come
had
back
man who marked
refuse
him a big
consented
get
MacGloin
to
England
courts,
and
MacGloin
nothing.
system,
Tom Walsh
Dr.
police
and
with
anyway.
arbitration
the
of
Union
the
Government
was
Galway
no one
and
Sinn
republican
government
home
and
to
Joe
Howley
sniper.
some time
had
parts
previously
no
was,
resignations
a police
which
the
daily
books
had
troops
essential
account
the
civil
form
made
things
of
and
all
It
of
Féin
that
it.
by
to
then
rebellion,
but
was
and
full
of
so many
the
part,
other
the
with
him,
that
and
He worked
for
in
P.s
a roving
ill
it
J.
cause
worried
a long
view
break-down
other
any
the
know why
complete
given
been
too.
flogging,
livid
official's
very
and
Commandant
be done
than
not
was
Tom Walsh
of
it
how much murder
man who had
were
courts
these
a garrison
almost
for
on
the
pay-
Broadstone
All
the
a year
Ireland.
and
work
was
was
realise
decent
injustice
Galway
of
law
empty
the
He did
more
list
the
looked
and
to
in
expected
expected
speech
not
was a kindly
Ireland.
doubt,
the
We did
He took
into
Galway
George's
Lloyd
was
terror
also.
maladministration
trouble
of
we in
and
torture.
to
the
Balbriggan,
Ireland
sequence
pitch-caps
we were
of
very
far
to
asked
spare.
more
Liam
Murphy's
troops
Mellowes
of
from
being
Seamus
Volunteers,
had
think
as
Galway
the
case.
had
Murphy
headquarters
to
replace
In
the
town
any
than
told
unfavourable
case,
people,
me in
report
could
nothing
June
was
1921
about
Galway
-5he was
that
had
to
wanted
at
was,
of
the
not
the
to
allowed
do,
very
that
lead
in
to
had
him
the
he would
to
was
moved
here
from
time.
he
Murphy
by other
members
sent
to
town,
but
allow
we were
the
North
to
and
to
look
was
turn
as
be
to
happen.
to
mark
for
he
He bad
him
a
as
and
when we
Hildebrand
squalls.
by Cruise
replaced
as
as
long
he
and
trouble
transferred
out
of
yet,
such
that
as
sack
the
make
this
a way
such
in
after
who
came
Cork.
was
round
seemed
to
in
Crossley
in
his
us to
St.
by the
Barrack
He used
bed.
be
a gentleman
Eglinton
to
of
a devil.
full
of
screaming
head
always
Hildebrand
left
his
roads,
of
"Highs"
with
lead
possessed
tenders
the
along
as
accepted
He slept
Galway.
shutters
the
not
refuse
gone
to
Cruise
tore
Pan
was Galway's
it
He expected
he was
the
and
as
command,
criticised
been
of
sack
non-collaborator.
heard
take
Hildebrand
if
a man had
control
already
met
asked
and
them
was
and
I.R.A.
Balbriggan
would
Black
severely
Some Republicans
told
the
during
time,
go back
steel
all
the
I
often
raids
and
saw him
which
police
a
muffled
in
a Black
and
evening
drinking
waterproof.
A few
driver
the
named
house
uniform
of
and
a row
of
"one"
was
bottles
Intelligence
Michael,
station
trouble.
to
that
after
who had
Krumm,
He boasted
pub.
the
days
friend
after
as
his
targets
Officer,
warn
any
an
armed
another,
by an
accompanied
about
the
spent
am
to
unarmed
and
show
heard
Volunteers
man seemed
at
this
who went
to
man)
insisted
his
was
- (he
to
lorry
in
not
in
a
came into
on setting
skill.
and
Tan
up
Tom Hynes,
sent
the
be preparing
his
brother,
railway
to
create
-6On this
to
arms
collect
from
the
they
intended
were
at
had
been
and
foes
Station
They
were
in
11.30
to
meet
to
troops,
other
the
with
guns.
Krumm drew
Turke
to
get
his
Krumm
shot
the
have
his
be
the
taken
closed
the
shooting
on to
the
bus
station
gun
crowd
the
and
the
as
and
Fahy
and
companion
no
in
of
was
to
the
dead
those
Hynes
came to
was
still
business.
who knew
for.
armed
men tore
Volunteer
warned
into
the
crowd.
the
him
Krumm
Dowd
help.
this
was
but
was
to
to
carried
seemed
was what
from
took
seems
incident
taken
then
They
afterwards
road
trying
struggle,
Frank
Half-an-hour
Quirke
ground,
him.
help
The
down the
by
the
Mulvoy
that
the
gate,
with
on arrival,
arrival
the
gun in
man.
his
go out
to
his
Michael
signal-box
to
another
waiting
began.
him
went
in
and
the
shoot
pulled
rounds
Krumm's
part
to
if
Mulvoy
wounding
to
of
Turke,
on the
out
at
night
from
Krumm and
went
they
guns.
Seán
Volunteers
started
as
made
all
and
and
the
Volunteers
gate
the
movements
Tommy Fahy
now is.
from
every
were
by the
give
Longford
the
present
platform
guns
fire
were
full
were
them
As
except
police
lorries
on duty.
but
lodgings
meet
not
just
gun.
to
Dowd,
him.
Mulvoy
watch
Frank
from
killing
and
in
station
to
Broderick,
gun
to
train,
the
to
them
protect
on that
night
to
going
They
from
afford
the
who
true.
night
not
of
that
police,
to
Volunteers
back
managed
on that
collecting
dispatches
on his
jumped
force,
or
was not
could
nothing
incoming
Longford
his
of
it
The
the
men with
the
Friends
of
the
went
the
town
habit
collect
where
side,
in
the
Some of
companion
arms
except
the
Johnny
Hynes.
but
alike.
districts.
Mulvoy,
night,
bringing
afterwards
soldiers
that
station
the
was
was a story
troops,
some display
but there
was
police,
Railway
any
to
going
Tom Redington
there
disarm
station
without
the
area,
to
were
Volunteer
collecting
friends
them
which
Longford
the
Volunteers
the
night
to
the
the
Renmore
and
his
bed
from
in
his
eleven
the
lodgings
at
times.
He crawled
on the
lamp-post
house.
he
Father
died.
that
was
five
It
time.
Quirke
had
shot
Troops
then
hands
sent
for
hours
was
later
that
Krumm and
knees
shot
to
and
stayed
and
be
that
thought
the
through
and
he was
where
was
shot
and
on his
quay
Griffin
This
that
during
-7the New Docks
the
of the
door
with
police
him
till
continuously
thought
a mistake
was
this
the
from
screamed
the
stomach
for
Turke.
his
from
railway
the
leg
and
locked
mixed
with
out
the
This
The
"Galway
was
supposed
Dr.
A party
bad nearly
got
all
another
in
and
it
set
on fire.
Fox
The
office
ranged
the
away
the
lorries
the
streets,
to
put
the
police
for
the
went
quite
in Ireland
the
editor
Eglinton
St.
Fox
of
for
Volunteers,
the
first
looking
sound
of
gone,
mother-in-law's
back
GD.
newspaper.
Tom Nix
manager,
who was
his
wrecked.
director.
town
at
his
Féin"
by Sergeant
Tom Fahy,
howling
was
screams
When
completely
"Sinn
the
managing
lead
of
rushed
and
him
mother
Her
guns.
was
only
was
R.I.C.
roof
in
wounded
out.
Murphy
got
with
at
Seeing
His
neighbours
threatened
be the
the
for
up on the
Sergeant
alone
of
searched
They
him.
to
barracks
police
left
Commins
by a bullet
be dead.
police
put
Tom Walsh
to
door
big
grazed
the
Express"
Seamus
was
head
home and
was
Commins
pretending
were
was
the
up against
was
his
from
them.
Quirke's.
and
fire
Commandant
and
house
poor
fire
left,
also,
blood,
her
in
shot
Broderick's
fell.
with
them
put
and
fell,
cleverly
covered
the
station
Broderick
Johnny
and
lodgings
the
he
took
blood
to
in
the
mad with
and
the
MacAvinue
He could
street.
barracks,
blood.
shots.
Paddy
house.
who
hear
One after
leaving
the
R.I.C.
-8The
the
the
to
Bureau
the
Cruise,
him
that
he would
the
run.
the
A steady
over
attended
many
of
the
week.
For
reports
given
the
to
to
an article
by Ivor
to
Sir
WIlson
manner
of
police
were
the
heads
as
they
working
us
out
country
through
and
not
"explode
said
the
them
every
us and
about
were
published
Police:
were
pointed
out
the
from
the
condition
being
that
in
rebellion",
that
orders
told
and
military
Downing
the
St,
over
and
senseless
Castle.
provoking
had
of
allow
to
trying
all
had
Guardian
the
began
effect.
sent
to
something
that
go on
hate
been
sent
to
the
seen
The New Statesman
on direct
of
had
was
to
and
own government
They
Dublin
idea
been
and
saying
amok.
acting
action,
did
Browne,
was
had
The Manchester
Castlereagh.
of
This
run
to
had
but
Ireland
began
They
chairman
plain
of
work
Galway
knew
their
by
be untrue.
permitted
Ireland
they
the
inquiry
over
in
Bulletin
time
them
recognised
Henry
Irish
first
been
etc.
in
was
had
all
Eireann
had
them
one to the
an
hold
and
murders
the
O'Dea
hard
It
wreckage".
Louis
The
facts
main
was made quite
it
of
The
E.
to
journalists
years
country.
am giving
shootings
Dáil
Courts,
recent
(I
English
Republican
history
of
of
stream
Ireland,
and
of
of
also.
papers.
department
propaganda
and
be murdered
English
R.I.C.
Louis
it
burnings
and
attempted
He
the
giving
was
Express
Galway
murder
cool.
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stopped
of
Reports
the
keep
council.
D.I.
reach
to
printed,
of
police,
(Appendix
copy
the
to
was
the
of
type
"orgy
the
people
town
the
leaflet
night's
accused
advised
of
a
and
previous
formally
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some
day
together
got
of
next
done
our
our
for
us
so many
hard-won
elected
the
into
disorganised
times
before,
position
as
representatives,
speed
of
modern
and
rulers
was
so
of
out
the
of
communications.
date
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news
all
men
was
of
to
us
helped
While
the
and
were
published
or
abroad
be
some reports,
allowed
others.
the
broke
out,
began
to
later
they
and
Englishmen,
It
was
and
still
to
more
they
that
they
killed
to
allowed
Vol.
they
that
say
but
etc.
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was
information
if
reprisals
get
should
news
extraordinary
was
threaten
to
news
that
extraordinary
of
parts
the
whether
Tribune
that
the
want
not
as
other
in
happening
so willing
and
be terrified
did
The
suppressed
police
was
a dilemma
not,
earth
the
it.
authorities
in
decent
all
we should
know what
the
country,
to
end
that
anxious
we should
that
an
put
of
corners
furthest
including
will,
good
the
to
carried
given.
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old
and
"military
authorities",
new R.I.C.,
Auxiliaries
work
always
their
well
weekly
an appropriate
whose
and
some
old
distillery
the
an
officer
wanting
a raid
had
them
blankets
through
"make
Ireland
and
these
orders
metal
huts
full
me that
told
the
he never
the
in
quartered
in
not
agitation
took
semi-circular
that
saying
of
kill
the
to
from
to
guard
life
escape".
on in
going
who was
done
to
O'Briain's
attempting
was
he was
a chance
soldiers
bad
to
now the
Island,
A prisoner
give
him,
a soldier
'Tans
Liam
Earls
did
orders,
is
were
mixture
when
cold
heard
of
one
weather,
of
swine
blankets.
me that
the
to
trade
lancers
"care".
stopped
While
Spiddal,
17th
They
men wanted
had
Summary",
whose
curious
army,
Some regiments
The
their
in
of
of
not.
factory.
prisoners
those
building,
Industries
told
for
regular
police
"Weekly
murder".
is
did
The
the
hell
method
and
together.
gazette,
that
meaning
his
guarding
Tipperary,
own place
them.
later,
on the
when
Josie
Lydon's
house
the
back
of
the
that
he
had
and
that
the
Town Hall
'Tans
wanted
seen
kill
what
be glad
Foresters,
camp saved
internment
to
house
he would
Sherwood
in
him
"while
o
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rose
Terror
the
month
a
For
Town Council,
saying
he was
Quirke
and
Cruise
stopped
No
Coroners'
statements
of
had
military
was
for
no
Griffin,
houses
and
Donnelly's
had
in
were
Shields'
houses
their
hair
off,
would
be now.
cut
Tuam had
man named
knees
up and
knees
were
down the
cut
to
made
him
finish
that
the
destruction
in
Pat
owned
a shop
The
station.
the
clerk,
put
a guard
Malt
Outfitters
were
the
played
Old
arrested,
University
was
arrested
on Fr.
raids
and
life
and
were
was
House
was
was
looted.
also
College
and
O Meehan,
later
raided
just
hideous
all
night
bombed,
House
in
'Tans
the
on the
Michael
Walsh.
Nicholls
porter
and
The
got
and
the
was
for
foreman
his
said
on
spat
George
and
when
heels
while
released.
who had
it
A
hands
about
searched
was
than
(Ballinasloe
and
Reynolds,
the
office
looted
melodeon,
then
and
took
going
"Bal"
had
Archbishop
O'Dea's
the
Grehan)
by
property
lorries
Louis
the
him
The
and
girls
on his
crawl
took
Grehan's,
shootings.
night-shirt
hands,
looted,
by Joe
boy,
Republican
Costello
of
shop
of
'Tan
rifles;
Moylette's
crucifix,
The
on his
There
tiring
Galway,
Salthill,
beat
it
Hell.
of
a
pieces
Four
a tragedy
his
Joe
MacAvinue's
of
in
Square
Fr.
this.
more
was made
for
raids,
Paddy
night
Burke
Harry
Bishop
after
commandeered.
was
Requiem
Except
daily
Barna
which
a horrible
young
colours
practically
A
law.
the
allowed
I.
if
force
adjourned.
sounded.
were
D.
by military
and
of
deaths
allowed.
were
and Mulvoy,
was
Fegan's
Harry
held
Quirke
funerals
public
Certain
was
Post
Last
The
use
kind
any
the
printed
present.
he would
abolished
been
inquiry
celebrated
presiding.
Charles
that
inquests
farcical
Mass
saying
it,
was
Considine
Dean
Mulvoy.
of
chairman
handbill
into
inquiry
the
Galway
O'Dea,
a little
had
a public
hold
E.
Louis
higher.
courageously
to
necessary.
GD
and
higher
in
break-out
first
the
after
and
at
MacClelland,
Volunteers
a death
notice.
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stripped
and
Men were
usually
beaten
being
the
2nd
On October
in
beaten
Humiliation
the
people
that
of the
only
Only
slaves
houses
and
haggards
objects
ball
was
or
was
refused
night,
his
friends
houses.
not
Gort
of
Headford
released.
Castle
shot
and
was
terror
Barna
had
raids
on fire
three
Volunteers
put
and
burned
the
in
for
Mass
house.
shop
(Joe
run
J.
cars
J.
and
Tans
about
as
they
looted
was
headed
Editor
"The
the
in
talk
spiteful
and
the
were
Howley's
Corofin.
used
fires.
was
his
but
each
Houses
more
mother's)
Fegan's
in
was
time
While
shooting
was
up.
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armed
looted
in
Lydon's
shot
were
lavatories.
parish,
J.
M.
was
later
Donnelly's
courtmartialled.
in
but
and
night.
or
Morley
and
again,
Donnelly's
one night,
as
Fr.
Mountbellew
every
The
Turloughmore.
a shot-gun,
raided
Clifden,
out
in
having
Town Hall,
in
There
in
and
a raid
was
times
stations
conducting
go on the
by the
by soldiers.
nearly
parlours
EXPRESS
loose
up.
and
back,
paragraph
shot
looted.
leader
Tribune's
during
arrested
There
scourged
of
Moylette's
Bar
Galway
The
Black
his
parochial
Christian.
was
was
to
four
looters'
for
drive
pressed
told
Tribune
was
to
A warning
A man was
filth
a gun
hours".
it
drivers
provide
the
to
was
Powell's
He had
do so.
with
Connaught
town
to
He had
shot.
by most
Ardrahan
were
Moycullen
again.
as
understood
Labane
In
and
made
recognised
In
burned.
looted
been
ordered
all
said
have
to
darkest
were
was
them.
fear
Athenry
was
he would
Ward
need
it
and
women before
of
specially
were
indignity
man.
ex-R.I.C.
crowds
of
or with
belts
and
an
being
men being
of
reports
front
whippings,
burned.
O'Dea's
Louis
in
buckled
scourges.
one
Tuam,
stripped
with
had
Tribune
the
local
daubed
with
of
printers
Dean
Macken
men raided
Oranmore,
again.
set
the
was
the
and
Keane's
Men were
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Courts
by taking
possession
courts.
these
arrested
had
to
but
Irish
Joyce
as
a spy;
summer
of
1920
of
the
During
who wrote
in
engaged
giving
take
to
instructed
in
collected
and
prominent
Galway
letters
were
stopped
of
a "loyalist".
when
the
-
a snob.
he was
names
of
to
he
the
the
left
run
George
he would
or
of
were
in
Barna
He was
Old
shot
by +he
the
officers
school.
Boys'
said
to
acquaintances
I.R.A.
and
of
were
this
on duty
were
O.B.E.
the
and
stopped
was at
G.P.O.
the
etc.
also
by a
government
Young
was
Togher,
information
English
in
Joe
workers
and
by him
posted
about
authorities
the
letters
all
man Joe
all
to
protection
Vol.
P.O.
the
in
appeared
The Volunteer
G.P.O.,
Letters
to
These
school-master
information,
Other
business
mail.
and
possession
forwarded
these
rewards
Galway
and he did so.
character
O.C.P.O
Joe Toghere was
was
when Togher
absent
house"
as
activities.
illegal
officer
Intelligence
been
Guards
and
Seán Forde
go on
up
Republican
advertisements
offering
newspapers
loyalists
the
Caltra,
cook
to
shot.
been
The Execution
GD
was
released
limited
they
but
the
against
damage
George
He was
and
bodies.
soldiers.
attempts
silly
in
court.
etc.
hold
public
be illegal,
to
to
impossible
armed
or
arms
carry
a case
and
persons
of
In
defended
the
government
rather
Nicholls
have
Castle
declared
and
theft
of
accusations
of
were
several
were
There
make
to
to
time.
the
on all
went
occupied
account-books
continued
ones,
attack
the
of
courts
Arbitration
to
refused
workers
Railway
GD
and
Arbitration
county
to
and
barracks
abandoned
burn
the
in
Volunteers
the
time
this
All
Prison
Justice
the
of
mail-van
also.
censored
one
leasd
from Joyce,
This
be "too
were
as a spy.
newly
men
the
the
man had
always
fond
the
not
The
East
Among
of
big
surprise
letter
Connemara
GD
gave
Gad
-13said
Brigade,
Vol.
Togher
them
who gave
GD.
place
meeting
with
him
the
proper
to be
to
to
a note-book
the
An
order
the
last
for
in
O'Donnell's
had
the
Irish
in
had
a mythical
man,
collecting
Company,
them
The
was
his
was not
to
and
identical.
At
Galway.
letter
Another
Togher
door
name
were
signatures
a hitch.
a
He had
died.
to
person
by sending
from
write
sent
the
as
done
had
to
Joyce
G.P.O.
City
who brought
was
cow which
execution
the
Droighneáin,
Galway
This
subscribed.
was
O
identified
be
to
he asked
there
Cappagh.
Miceál
the
and
found
and gave them to
journey,
TheyOrdered
Gd
Government.
The matter
a blind
as
of
it.
against
be
to
O Meehan,
letters.
Joyce's
into
to
British
in
house
Fr.
Rev.
were
they
letters
next
which
minute
came
Joyce
of
he
amount
where
on his
the
in
working
to
Joyce
price
in
as
the
disguised
the
engaged
Tom Hynes,
investigated.
door
the
I.O.
persons
Volunteer
to
the
Dublin
who had written
hostile
gave
to
them
gave
Hynes
actively
information
He gave
were
they
were
and
Government
their
that
from
on duty,
so
it
was
Walsh
Old
instructions
to Michael
against
of
the
St Should
have
bean
brought
st
Toghon,
GD
Tom
It
denounced
Michael
House,
High St.
Walsh,
brought
Malt
O'Connor
N.T.,
Griffin,
as
Michael
Walsh
who,
he was
though
with
information
talked
This
Griffin
to
friendly
the
St.
was
drinking
too
The
execution
was
Fr.
was
The
much).
was
Tom Burke,
suspected.
the
Fr.
out.
He haunted
and
-
was
carried
at 2.30
out.
later
P.P.
was
Mansfield
O.S.A.
was
was
not
a delay
(O'Connor,
and
Fr.
English.
Walsh's
Tom O'Connor
execution
It
by the
There
leaked
and
Volunteers,
officers.
a spy.
there
be shot
a priest,
to
seems to .have
Mainguard
much
it
brought
O Droighneáin
Miceál
who should
persons
communication
too
Tom Hynes,
and
There
Michael
Walsh
to,
but
Ahascragh
to
shop,
pub.
postponed
necessary
some
paper
let
it
was
a week.
am
GD
A priest
attended
of
in
Joyce.
Fr.
be known
-14-
has
When Paddy
GD
about
aged
The
be
to
he went
away
once
They
guard.
as
far
about
being
that
Joyce
thought
it
East
not
hostage,
It
Volunteers
would
The
evidence
They
way
even
been
have
tenders
was
along
but
was
roads
first.
had a very
strong
of
and
his
leg.
Then
he
in
boys
smashed
his
day
as
a
that
the
him.
and
in
them
and
me
together,
up.
They
stripping
man with
him
espionage.
lorries
saw a few
bicycle.
presumption
he]4
shoot
Killanin,
threw
letters
all
circumstantial
beat
and
a group
Cappagh
to
next
they
the
believe
treason
of
guilty
stopped
not
complete
horse-whipped
Tom MacDonagh
could
they
that
being
as
information
on the
was
take
work
likely
of
spite
impudence
the
of
in
usual
their
is
it
apparently
and whenever
they
singly,
They
the
in
on their
wee
precise
very
and
them
that
the
at
stay
had
killed
behaved
Joyce
out
to
acted
said
they
that
rushed
Crossley
was
to
Brigade
got
They
had
Joyce
be
to
desappearanue
the police
would
concerned
all
police
Connemara
stopped.
and
best
the
but
information
Joyce's
He was
and
Tans
Joyies
that
bourse,
about
possible
the
Christmastime.
station.
the
and
Black
about
later.
newspecperd
Repented
It
was presumed,
of
at
to
police
the
joining
police
action
or
but
by two
escorted
Palestine
GD
out
afterwards,
saw him
reported
pointed
man,
me on a police
to
He was
dark
a small
was
the
for
went
son
Joyce's
morning
son
This
in
the
and Tans.
twenty.
soon
lorry
I
that
Black
and
police
and
buried
was
body
later
the
was shot it was thought
that
away
Ride
on which. Joyce was taker
to him.
the car belonged
O'Flaherty
suspected
police
His
him.
found.
been
never
attended
had
a priest
that
on
them
And he
the
ground,
They
arrived
them
picked
breaking
in
up
-15without
Spiddal
head
on the
must
Joyce
GD
his
ears
be
brought
shoot
and
back
people
but
number
of
all
and
not
retired
by next
the
in
to
likely
R.I.C.
time
village.
as
happen
and
as
the
hedge.
It
from
parted
just
is
they
The
kidnapping
that
Mass
of
they
They
jumped
their
had
of
Most
must
they
him
when
of
the
murders
proper
as
him
We had
before
backing
through
got
away.
a Connemara
catch
the
moments
he
but
very
back.
way
the
man on his
to
the
tell
was
next
Sunday's
he refused
in
in
command of
the
from
Galway
the
but
blew
coat
waterproof
in
at
people
back,
Cruise
denounce
this
off
to
spite
lorries.
his
the
head.
were
end,
Joyce.
asked
after
these
my husband
as
Dr.
incidents,
if
Joyce
had
not,
he would
have
My husband
told
him
he
that
O'Dea,
been
if
authority,
murder.
have
to
We met
a few
lorry
on
there,
seemed
of
We were
Joyce.
we found Emonn
Breathnach
the
in an uproar.
place
and whole
him
the
the
a good
were
staying
Macelhinney
to
D.I.
see
Immediately
Galway,
the
eye,
bring
come
Spiddal
Fr.
and
Joyce
for
reprisals
his
ordered
threats.
We could
of
over
terrified
time.
sight
to
When we reached
This
there
on their
caught
impossible
cut
that
lorries
off
would
to
O Droighneáin
passed
a great
police
the
Miceál
practically
own land.
with
in
gangsters
howling
us at
about
information
they
there.
living
knew what had happened
We already
on crcyeles
that
day as we were
Spiddal
riding
more or less,
the police
run,
although
little
or
day
that
shouted
they
them
fired
and
him
beat
They
rifles
their
Eamonn
caught
he worked.
the
back
everyone
was
of
butts
and
bog-road
where
Co-op.,
the
with
beside
off
the
in
Breathnach
by the
warning
to
knew
Bishop
executed
with
denounce
it
it
had
been
-16authorised
was
but
had
Castle
When Dr.
the
said
of
and
nothing,
knew
as
Dr.
O'Dea
Dr.
O'Dea,
of
Bishop
farms
town
of
KNOUT IN
the
of
new
turn.
The
execution
The
first
October
1920.
The
motives
Volunteers,
the
use
prison
for
former
prisoners
a copy
end.
The
kill
him
were
cleared
and
in
they
did
not
Malt
must
have
entered
his
shop
did
wait
not
the
was
know
where
to .go.
of
After
was
be
shot.
that
the
way
The
would
they
by the
people
get
The men got
about
of
the
in
to
two
letter,
death
went
a
which
Joyce's
him
heard
as
country
police
to
told
no-one
but
time.
the
to
assistance
courts,
his
of
on 19th
his
and
and
This
full
a
took
St.
the
in
quay
shop,
the
on the
were;
about
to
houses
terror.
shooting
High
to
got
the
of
the
police;
walk
half-an-hour.
out
was
farm
thing
of
arrested.
matters
Republican
the
of
were
the
of
by reprisals
this
his
the
a night
an article
House,
for
told
him
Ireland.
Burnings
October
Joyce
of
shocking
made
men had
masked
full
most
murderers
Maybe
had
in
Old
of
prisoners
which
his
the
conduct
MacNamee
followed
Walsh,
of
of
murder.
for
shot-up.
Mrs.
for
reprisal
he accepted
the
had
15th
Is
Joyce
Michael
the
was
NEWS wrote
On. the
of
it.
government
denounced
and
DAILY
IRELAND.
it
letter.
Loughrea
Horan
for
that
now marked
if
Dublin
days.
waited
jure"
Claremorris
Mary
Hugh Martin
were
Galway,
continued:
Malone,
"de
a threatening
got
The
troops;
they
the
assurance
a few
so within
diocese
Galway
formal
obtain
denounciation
Government
Irish
Mary
he did
expected
O'Dea
Priests
and
and
necessary
he would
that
twenty
who
help.
nervous
minutes
-17him
took
they
to
nothing
and
threw
his
The
military
relatives
the
for
the
police,
who was
dancing
about
the
hearse
with
the
with
a long
the
with
he
the
funeral.
From
and
military
many
there
He had
were
give
some
beside
riding
charge
the
up the
attempt
on for
loyalists
and
Auxies
a revolver,
to
went
was
it
between
them
to
to
Square
They
had
people
attempted
ridiculous.
scene
time,
A great
with
him.
crowd
thus
the
people
ordered
The
this
him
hearse,
officer
himself
and
the
reached
the
that
time.
between
hearse
making
do
immediate
only
affected,
threatening
him
result
follow
sincerely
on horseback
Lancers
that
killing.
liason
and
shot
They
follow
Harrison,
Capt.
by
said
to
When the
who could
people
tide.
be allowed
who were
town,
of
fish-market.
authorities
also.
17th
knew
gwh
the
in
body
stopped
to
the
responsibility
follow
GD.
to
it,
would
taking
of
stop
a crowd
through
away
what
crowd
seemed
drew a
sharp
Editor
of
line
police.
we
After
been
The
in
was
was
time
at the
unformation
same
in
the
case
as
time
same
the
for
at
allowed
of
killing
time
he
the
an
and
a pregnant
side
of
the
same
date
there
road,
was
used
as
Volunteers.
man being
terror
men
whole
the
house
Athenry
individual
general
the
that
said
the
by armed
Egan
Egan's
Carnmore
of
the
Thomas
mystery.
Mrs .Quinn,
aimed
at
fort
whole
the
woman, was shot
waiting
off
picked
her
as
she
husband
come home.
On the
military
play
at
another
population.
alone
to
the
shrouded
place
meeting
This
Eachthat
but
death
censorship
publish
uniform
affair
this
peculiar
to
TRIBUNE
had
happened
Walsh's
Michael
at
reported
tennis!
The
was
Castledaly,
report
gives
an ambush
where
the
of
they
casualties
and
police
had
gone
as
one
to
dead
a
-18one wounded,
and
and
Stanford
of
charge
cut
down
fearful
or
to
indeed
level
cause
of
anything
else.
by some
the
our
our
Dr.
Terror
Co.
Council
intended
out
that
put
an end
and
the
in it.
The murder
it.
the
was
Galway
these
of
six
understood
be more
should
of
ask
nor
the
than
the
point
to
English
during
were
efforts
Galway
to
isolated
terribly
direct
Gilmartin,
do more
to
by
the
not
they
best
God".
original
Dr.
to
of
hailed
was
Workhouse
the
was
originators
and
wrong,
implications
of
that
Neither
nor
was
the
This
George.
enemies.
was
and
and
Relief,
a "Truce
beaten
the
Bill
with
a truce
Tax
Government
to
Home Rule
for
continued,
the
fund
Poor
beyond
Sheehy-Skeffington,
time
in
Income
time,
central
the
who thought
resolution
same
Gilmartin,
for
Mrs.
Terror
the
campaign
by Lloyd
people,
than
to
officers
General,
the
we were
the
for
the
dead.
government
Hospitals,
asking
prolonging
Christian
At
Tuam,
that
civil
down in
his
Irish
meaning
of
three
Volunteer
Registrar
Mental
of
started
asked
months
the
laid
for
as
England
the
from
no money
of
sign
to
contributions
intentions
Any
least
English
etc.
The Archbishop
of
were
the
collected
the
was
made
not
economy
there
at
ambush.
be
not
could
were
Gort
resistance
were
returns
there
of
Fahy
the
The
but
not
this
obvious
Griffin
Fr.
20th
On November
the
TRIBUNE
asked
"Where
is
Father
Griffin?".In?".
Father
Michael
He had
killed.
Rahoon
parish.
Galway
first
to
converse
been
three
He knew
and
fluently
was
Griffin
during
with
26 years
in
years
little
or
those
three
native
as
Galway
no Irish
years
speakers
when
old
a curate
when
he
and
he was
learnt
to
he
in
came to
enough
preach
an
-19excellent
sermon.
from
the
from
there
to
city
Griffin
friends
with
honest
men loved
the
schools
their
get
invited
into
houses
where
be
seen.
ran
him
she
cheque
before
the
if
inside
them
he was
just
shot
got
from
one
as
He
to
women to
let
so
young
poverty
a hole
it
to
the
in
his
small
Every
boy
lads
a
"I've
turned
his
two
them
he had
not
a penny,
have
pennies
tomorrow.
Concannon
that
day
her
and
a
him
gave
of
on one
royalties
it
doors,
gave
shouting
Toms
cashed
the
he was
Two little
Griffin
Mrs.
let
seen
their
burning
day,
he might
not
and
him.
show
to
tight-shut
himself.
Father
out
to
was
for
St.
old
well-off
it
a penny
and
pounds.
books,
it
away
advice
was
gave
evening.
He was
get
from
Dominick
telling
had
twenty
sound
got
in
before
day
ashamed
a penny
Father!"
and
were
dumb children
letters
Mass;
where
as
the
with
made
well
with
go to
houses
as
as
bad
to
and
no house
men who
houses,
away
had
hard
got
years
money
it
pockets
laughing
for
people
face
face,
trouser
for
the
gave
up to
clean
The
he
thieves'
a clean
with
married;
Church
it
was
people
he wrote
school,
he advised
he never
pocket,
to
in
blackguards
He advised
and
Park.
Bushy
There
and
stretching
Furbough
corner
it.
them;
He got
he
poor;
them
the
of
him.
for
Sons
inside
thieves
near
on to
and
in
person
welcome,
send
hole
every
every
not
and
Tonabrocky
parish
big
Stream"
"Liberty
knew
he was
to
to
over
Father
where
the
a very
is
Rahoon
and
moderate.
really
annoyed
an English
for
her
of
others
wise
very
soldier,
bad
as
for
I
except
he
once,
a 17th
bringing-up.
if
never
knew
saw him
when
lose
He spent
had
his
his
a Galway
but
Lancer,
he only
a priest,
even
temper
even
married
girl
then
or
he allowed
himself
in
the
a short
time.
service
-20-
He was
liked
have
to
but
he
and
fair,
did
fresh-coloured
His
long.
head
He acted
and
in
T.
Fr.
their
the
to
achievement
were
There
not
Father
O'Meehan
so he went
of
clergy
Between
fair
he was
-
hair
short-handed
and
country
sick-calls.
thought
that
and
got
people
the
only
very
Father
Fr.
Davis,
Davis,
Griffin.
O Droighneáin
hint
of
an
the
run.
heavily
a
had
Dean
Considine
was
and
in
doing
It
at
place
was
all
an
if
you
cars
he took,
been
too
as
round
he
did
on all
Re was
also
very
close
the
school
to
allow
him
to
the
Stations
P.P.
of
with
of
Fr.
Michael
on the
go on
was
he was
think
fond
away
This
not
to
would
it
him.
very
considerate
was
put
made
parish
the
of
it
,but
been
was
important
the
do most
fetch
recently
a pro-British,
left
much, so he
to
cross
complexioned,
This
to
and
confidence.
a motor-bike
hint
side
most
the
fresh
had
skull
with
I.R.A.
soldier.)
exposed
send
notice
built,
though
epidemic,
busy.
Volunteers
the
the
Griffin
who had
and
and
little
rather
composite
always
( He was
in
fully
He went
important.
was
happy
the
in
He had
precaution
face
a barrack.
Just
a death
Father
to
His
Tom Burke,
very
live
a born
this
fat.
Leonardo
which
all
got
was
and
35-40
brown
on
nor
side.
English
bones,
the
to
manage
the
on
was
place
and
Fr.
was
his
the
of
He knew
O'Kelly.
city,
and
Court,
O Meehan,
big
thin
cheerful
Republican
counsels.
Galway
big
He was
- Fr.
it
was
reminiscent
was
on the
on
priest
face
Christ.
of
nose
his
grey,
neither
column
He was
uniform.
and
have
would
a flying
with
clerical
his
regret
and
high-spirited
rifle
his
shouldered
riot
were
eyes
and
strong
young,
the
slightest
run.
Rahoon
-21On the
of
night
Dr.
with
cards
the
came
house
revolvers
always
called
so by
his
of
Volunteers
and
the
to
house,
us what
had
warned
The
other,
Smith
and
would
start
and
the
got
a bit
quite
that
The
raid
later
that
a Galway
to
do that
same
hotel
night.
at
passing
the
along
cots
that
they
They
three
evening
spoke
This
hotel.
the
of
was heard
At
front
about
at
us and, told
on the
he went.
the
Kennedys
names
of
and
run,
as
and
Barker
that
their
just
overhead,
but
They
said
this
that
a terrible
quite
job
upset
unpleasant
job
by Miss
Norah
half-past
ten
Salthill.
and
guns
they
was
to
about
men had
to
they
waving
smallish
an
searching
O'Beirnes
passed
still
had
were
the
terrified
were
a time.
on.
and
were
they
their
after
to
by the
Kennedys
in
but
O'Brien,
other
as
were
quieter
in
them
each
and
by
only
After
went
talking
time,
shooting,
babies
Liam
the
was
It
they
was
a camp of
who had
so my husband
them
of
night.
as
in
day
been
because
O'Malleys
came
a long
Ward.
night,
a visitor
the
calling
a nice
Earlier
allowed
that
next
O'Máille
Connemara.
there
uniform
Professor".
"the
had
He
run,
knock
in
only
Tomás
Pádraig,
not
among
men stayed
the
in
O'Malleys
others,
each
on
happened,
for
was
the
in
not
his
playing
a loud
men,
townspeople.
refugees
they
The
go.
the
and
wife
was
it
a wild
were
first
Prof.
brother,
he was
that
chance
and
that
Kennedy's,
activities
his
shouting
there
remembered
in
wife,
his
smallish
and
no Professor
was
sleeping
and
There
three
waving
it
O'Malley
Salthill.
and
was
that
in
Michael
and
Kennedy
hall-door
in
There
O'Beirne
Bartly
was
which
14th,
Dr.
rain,
Michael
Kennedy's
at
and
storm
and
wire
of November
night
do
it.
a meal
they
had
O'Donnell,
I
We lived
saw
-22-
some time,
and
Protestant
was
home.
and
politely,
the
men in
civilian
head.
and
searched
the
shot
Dominican
searched
Auxiliaries
an
on Fr.
found
and
a
teacher
him
-
(Fr.
Black
and
later
three
door
them,
and
through
The
shot
went
The nuns
the
Tan
up to
walking
tennis-court,
window.
quite
him,
gentleman
hour
once.
and
who
Griffin's
with
at
Convent
searched
by men in
on the
died
answered,
archaeologist,
this
of
for
an English
met
and
him
He went
have
He must
an
Batley,
knocked
was
and
no one
they
quarter
clothes
Castle,
through
been
before.
day
but
"We searched
said;
door
public-house
"Bal"
stopped
he was wanted.
him
Lenaboy
They
He had
uniform
the
named
then
yesterday".
the
Near
on.
Finan's
a drink,
get
clergyman
going
told
to
hoping
went
they
at
knocked
They
opposite.
bullet
complained
the
next
day.
The
House-keeper
next
lived
do more
than
as
going
door, heard
have
required
by
be would
do so
idea
never
of
wore
GD.
Quirke
It
must
to
the
shortly
you"
If
all
gone
in
someone
it,
had
the
same,
on
of
a priest.
need
such
as
he took
known
wrong
"I
would
he
he
the
circumstances.
the
who
say;
that
proving
he
in
Griffin)
Naughton
would
chance
be
He had
and
shot,
that
He must
hat
he was
thought
be was
me tha
told
have
a coat
had
he
on night-calls.
he
After
minutes
for
a priest"
he would
an
20
that
named
drove
have
bad
gone,
the
past
picked
"Retreat"
afterwards.
a side-car
house
up the
house
in
and
three
Salthill,
driven
went
by a
towards
men as
they
man named
Lenaboy.
drove
commandeered
on it
by B.
& T.s
-23-
main
the
to
turned
Rahoon
to
This
people
the
Barna
and
across
down to
left
was
had
and
that
he
no
had
Barna.
A girl
After
the
it
wrapped
town.
ass
little
that
men
They
and
no
who questioned
with
finishing
Fr.
if
went
executed
execution
about
this
was
Joyce
the
it
to
about
a time,
for
was
story
in
sermon
a
of
my
Another
congregation
had
Griffin
been
therefore
doubts.
"the
found
was
cart
his
and
brought
The whole
street.
him
now stands.
that
of
like
the
a sheet
in
had
an affidavit
a bar,
Barna
then
in
a lie.
was
swore
in
say,
which
and
route,
aware
conscience
of
threatened
This
the
information
with
man had
Salthill,
road
monument
suggested
stories
ordinary
the
cemetery
course,
qualms
and
Nile
body.
police
of
Road
Tom Hynes
along
once ,and
Silly
knowledge.
the
at
to
They: buried
his
by
the
them
He was,
by I.R.A.
but
go to
back
brought
Joyce
where
houses
and
the
bog.
obtained
in
military
to
the
grave,
living
threatened
not
towards
men who found
The
the
Road
information
the
Tan
by Sea
a shallow
in
there
Retreat
up past
hill
the
the
cemetery,
the
down
Hill,
out
came
It
Lenaboy.
to
out
up Threadneedle
goes
from
body
on Taylor's
gate
corner,
Lodge
his
took
A lorry
town
that
body,
left
in
forgotten
him
and
bog".
and
it
on an ass-cart
clothes
lamented
the
washed
they
it
a Black
heard
was in
parson
brought
his
she
into
The
separately.
till
and
in
evening,
would
not
the
be
comforted.
Fr.
is
for
James
compiling
the
Bishop's
O'Dea
the
P.P.
official
Bishop.
own grave.
Fr.
(or
Clarenbridge
diocesan
Griffin
is
of
history
buried
Claregalway)
in
Fr.
Loughrea
Griffin
in
the
-24The
Terror
continues;-
The
was
what
holding
armistice
"God
while
dealt
with
manner.
the
never
of
blood
the
The
censored
the
account
into
into
and
shot
Town Hall
and
day
rid
of
In
these
of
soldiers
of
to
student
The
played.
an appropriate
in
enforced
police
mark
who had
down
the
'huts
brought
in
the
street
Corrib
over
to
it
out
to
the
wet
after
here,
at
the
of
with
exercise
without
dictaphone
a week
their
back
as
blankets,
far
enough
in
it.
as
the
but
this
Island.
a rope
thrown
Michael
ball
means
eat
or
of
was
from
of
gaol,
The
night
washing
or
getting
quiet
or
privacy.
any
used
to
stopped
of
them,
One officer
river-bank
back
alley.
134
round
Moran
released
U.C.G.
to
thrown
and
drowned,
being
air,
and
now commandeered
men prisoners,
or
the
hut
with
plank
along
a "dog-kennel"
Earl's
clothes.
by Lancers
filled
was
saw
I
Barna
into
from
half
hanged,
their
Club
for
fair.
to
GD
of
lot
brought
brought
thrown
taken
was
Christmas
son
India
fellow-citizens
being
and
in
mutiny
a hand-picked
their
were
out
half
Rangers'
prisoners
The
and,
was a
out
on
man stagger
Galway
at
thrown
vermin,
once
to
taken
without
out
old
Connaught
They
were
neck
There
of
bridge
Tuam, was
silence"
on country-men
saw an
the
Island.
the
about
men students
the
Galway
ashplants
used
river,
Prisoners
their
larking
a savage
Salthill.
Earl's
a plank
in
ill-treatment,
full
the
Corners
I
of
were
a tender
at
was
king"
later
summer.
and
front
it.
forced
the
told
so a company
fellows
with
from
previous
arrest
the
Four
were
minutes
and
and
ex-soldier
across
the face.
His
blow
a year
coho
of
dad
afbaworels
man
were now allowed
to give a heavily
news-papers
ex-soldiers
in
the
minutes"
heard
pouring
save
"two
11th,
College
by his
At
"two
shot
the
up at
stand
was
November
day,
arrived
the
an
scholarship,
students
during
drawing-office
who was
a Kitchener
called
week
continued
lootings
in. U.C.G.,
some engineering
that
police
the
A student
week.
after
and
burnings
floggings,
shake
to
let
the
on account
them
lice
of an
of
-25After
mumps.
of
epidemic
a better
pneumonia,
Hall
Parochial
Food
was
officer
and
also
in
The
R.I.P.
McHugh
Bridget
soldiers
guarding
the
in
quartered
They
would
They
sold
of
the
were
decent
workhouse,
for
rifles
the
to
bursting.
from
prepared
Foresters
Sherwood
poor
by
Nicholls.
George
men and
kindly.
or
without
half-a-crown
to
and
cooked
Town Hall
room.
contribution
sister-in-law
do anything
their
and
warning,
Protestant
more
a week
Galway
without
the
a little
had
they
died
over
took
by a shilling
provided
shop-assistant
every
men had
two
even
for
Volunteers
£2
it.
O
10
apiece.
The
and
the
The
governor
was
let
not
landed
The
Connaught
and
Patrick
their
poured
thrown
into
He was
Tribune
mere
over
of
"shot
a son
of
of
the
raided
and
looted
been
on the
run
near
a bit
too
same
hot,
set
and
alight
date
of
after
what
it.
brothers,
lorries,
in
their
mouths,
ware
they
to
Keane
of
so often
home
for
so he
escape
Oranmore
on his
a long
decided
death
the
reported
attempting
Mrs.
shop
getting
and
of
BULLETIN"
Loughnane
placed
gelignite
account
copies
dragged
beater
then
water.
while
the
the
were
was
the "IRISH
with
that
boys,
with
them
a pool
round
being
An
he
man
unlucky
barracks
of
numbers
reported
off
TRIBUNE
Howley
for
gaol
blown
petrol
Joe
escape.
Henry,
heads
The
of
republicans
because
The
a chance
three
Irish
Tans
be beaten.
police
and
ill-treatment.
and
St.
filled
me in
from
by Black
Governor
were
woman,
Eglinton
without
and
The
safe
prisoners
to
there
happened
were
it
threatened
his
brought
abused
one man and
in
prisoners
who was
and
full
for
except
warders,
would
was
gaol
from
to
and
go
arrest".
who had
to
her
He
account.
time
of
it
had
was
Dublin
for
a
-26while.
When he
station,
he was
in
manner.
A police
charged
Johnston
There
had
order
to
been
an attempt
remove
to
do so from
he
could
do
him
the
was
Galway
him
was
from
man
and
caught
not
been
man.
R.I.C.
R.I.C.
(Tom Newell
man in
GD
sent
(Sweeney)
wounded
badly
for
waiting
the
this
identify
a friendly
in
He had
away
to
bat
with
dead.
quietly
Broadstone
formerly
marksman
Howley
had walked
and
hands
soldier)
Joe
the
man
by an R.I.C.
(or
shot
at
train
who shook
Galway,
and
signal
arrested
GD
greeted
stationed
the
his
the
off
got
before
it.
He
to
Paddy
Belfast
in
Igoe, pole
It
was deed
This
be remembered
will
driver
of
the
threatened
if
living
name &
that
which
be
shot
at
had
been
removed
that
family
he was
the
shot.
It
invaded
Aran
the
The
same would
had, to
Barna
down as
put
Joyce.
of
top
Hill.
the
and
Black
be done
to
be reported
Tans
them
as
accidental.
A large
is
car
his
said
they
by
now
was
O'Flaherty
and
It
force
terrifying
was
thought
people
there.
at
time
the
Volunteers
who were
afterwards
that
night
and
it
which
day,
who lived
people
So we got
still
resolution
from
circulated
to
Kennedy,
due
were
to
not
the
the
Chairman
of
the
killed
three
this
was
run,
to
get
we
but
reports
of
true.
They
men.
the
heard
men
drilling
were
The Archbishop
of
Galway
Rural
They
searching
sent
in
by
rule.
Christmas.
a Truce
for
calling
a day
on the
on ascendancy
to
spent
that
there
was
and
God.
County
Councils
The
Tuam Council,
Tuam was
ill-advised
Council
for
of
their
said
was
being
approval.
that
only
Mr.
-27of
people
kind
or
peace
to
continued
make
the
Castle
SIGNED
DATE
WITNESS
S
Ni
Chiosain
British
garrison
we were
likely
seize
County
government
Geraldine
wanted
to
impossible.
Dillon.
14.9.1950
meaning
the
then.
The
Volunteers
documents
and
generally
get
Council
peace,