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Dublin / Re: Old IRA Dublin Brigade
« on: Saturday 28 July 12 15:11 BST (UK)  »
Here is a photograph of the 4th Battalion, Dublin Brigade, Honour scroll in Kilmainham



I have started a thread here if anyone would like me to find their relatives names from this Battalion on this scroll :

http://www.war-talk.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=321

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Dublin / Re: Information on Fitzgerald family of 173 Greater Brunswick Street (now Pearse St)
« on: Wednesday 01 February 12 03:37 GMT (UK)  »
There is a picture of his grave marker in Glasnevin here :



(Moderators please don't delete image - I took the photo & own the site)

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Dublin / Re: Old IRA Dublin Brigade
« on: Friday 06 January 12 02:25 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: dtc on Wednesday 30 November 11 16:46 GMT (UK)
Dear gkenny
Attached are a couple of extracts from Military Archive Witness Statement WS907 by Larry Nugent which may be of interest if Sean and John McCloskey are the one.
dtc

That is very interesting. Thanks very much for posting those, I was not aware of them till now.  I am definitely making a visit to the archives.

One of them includes :

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Thos.J.Cullen and Cpt. John McCluskey, who was taken on special service by Mick Collins as one of his most trusted men. When Captain Thos. Cullen was transferred to the Battalion Staff, Harry O’Farrell, another man who had gone through all the original training, was elected Captain of K. Company.

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On the morning of Mick Collins’s escape in Mespil Road John McCluskey had his children waiting at points in case Mick came
along. These children knew him well.

My Grandmother said stories that would tie in with the above, I dismissed them as the usual urban legend kind of thing. I doubt there was a John McCluskey and a Sean McCluskey in K Company, 3rd Battalion so I believe this is the same man & the above ties in with what my Grandmother used to tell us about her activity as a child and about her father Sean McCluskey. I am blown away by that link, thanks so much for posting that.


Does anyone have any ideas if this could be the same man who gave a witness statement but is recorded as 'Official Dail Eireann' ?

http://www.militaryarchives.ie/fileadmin/user_upload/documents/The_Bureau_of_Military_History_1913-1921_Index_to_Contributors.pdf

McCluskey. Sean. Official Dail Eireann, 1919. (WS) 512

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Dublin / Re: Micheal Collins and 'The Squad'.
« on: Monday 19 September 11 20:58 BST (UK)  »
Glad that is useful, your Grandfather is also mentioned on P111 of 'The Squad: and the Intelligence Operations of Michael Collins' by T.Ryle Dwyer:

http://www.amazon.com/Squad-Intelligence-Operations-Michael-Collins/dp/1856354695

It's a brief mention of him being the driver on an operation to raid soldiers and sentries at the Kings Inns in Dublin (for weapons) on 1st June 1920, it was an operation involving Collins' Squad and Dublin IRA.

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Dublin / Re: Micheal Collins and 'The Squad'.
« on: Monday 19 September 11 11:39 BST (UK)  »
I believe your grandfather David Golden was a friend of Vinny Byrne (member of Michael Collins Squad).   You might be interested to see a christmas card from him to Vinny in 1918 :

http://www.militaria-archive.com/independence/vinny-byrne.html

http://www.militaria-archive.com/independence/vb-scrapb1/content/Vincent_Byrne_Scrapbook_053_large.html



Also a picture of David Thomas Golden, junior of Chicago, whose father was a leading member of the battalion and is now residing in Chicago.



(Moderators please do not remove pictures as I run that website).

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Dublin / Re: Old IRA Dublin Brigade
« on: Tuesday 21 June 11 20:12 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: Private 1st class on Tuesday 14 June 11 22:55 BST (UK)
Hi, Sean Mc Cluskey was a member of K company. 3rd Battalion Old I,R, A. They had the job of containing the Dublin Fire Brigade. based in Tara St. This they did very well on the day. They were to hold the station till 1.50 this they also did. If he was not in the station he may have been on one of the posts covering there escape done Pearse St. toward westland Row. As it turned out they did not use that way, but they piled into an Ambulance. While the Tans were going in one of the doors they were going out another. When they asked where it was going they were told to the Custom House to collect wounded. Some of the way, Tara St, Fleet St, Anglesea St, finally stopping up at Hatch St. Were everyone vanished and went there way. On the cornor of Townsend St and Shaw St,Townsend St and Spring Garden St. Two men on each the same back to Westland Row. One on spring garden St was a M Doyle on loan from 4Th Battalion. Another called Lyons Somewere along there. Two others were arrested by chance on there way to the area. They were still in there training hall doing signal lamp, Most of the men had gone home. A man arrived on a bike and introduced himself as Fred Lawlor from the 3rd Battalion. M Spain and JO'Connor knew him. He wanted  some six men for an important job . As there were only four of them they said they would go no problem.Joseph Carroll, Vincent Lyons. Matthew Doyle, and Seamus Kavanagh.

Thanks a lot for that information. If you can recommend any books which may have more info on Sean Mc Cluskey please let me know.

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Dublin / Re: Old IRA Dublin Brigade
« on: Saturday 11 June 11 23:06 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: Private 1st class on Tuesday 02 February 10 10:51 GMT (UK)
Hi, Some names from the 3rd Battalion, Dublin Brigade,
Lt James  Bird,   Capt Seamus Brogan, Staff-Capt Thomas Cullen, (F.R.I.A.I.), Capt Henry O'Farrell,  Lt Frank Gallagher Lt Liam Lucas, Ned Devitt, Bob O'Donnell, Peter Keating George Hogan,  Sean McCluskey,  Stephen Coates,Jimmy Keegan,  Billy Redmond, Jim Boyce,  Jimmy Maher,  Billy Charles,  Jim Kinsella,   Tom Burke,  Paddy roberts, John Fynes, Jim (Kruger) Smithers . Mick White,  F ( bONER) Lawor, Sean Kavanagh,  Jim Boyce,  Jack O'Connell, Christy Grimes,  Sean Breen, Leo Purcell,  Sean Harpur,  Frank Birmingham, Ned Davitt. Arthur O'Sullivan, Paddy Hardiman,  from Private 1st class..


I believe Sean McCluskey is my Great Grandfather on my mothers side. If anyone can add any information relating to him please let me know.

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Dublin / Re: Micheal Collins and 'The Squad'.
« on: Sunday 22 May 11 13:26 BST (UK)  »
Hello CSM man, no I am not related to Vinny Byrne at all.

If you can add any names to the people in the photographs or clarify any information in the  documents or scrapbok please let me know. I hope you find it as interesting as I have.

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Dublin / Re: Micheal Collins and 'The Squad'.
« on: Friday 20 May 11 14:35 BST (UK)  »
This might be of interest to some here. I have put online a small collection of documents, letters, photographs and postcards as well as a substantial scrapbook mostly put together during independence era Ireland.

It belonged to Vincent (Vinny) Byrne of the Irish Volunteers and Michael Collins' Squad :

http://www.militaria-archive.com/independence/vinny-byrne.html

Included in the documents are the following, which I believe may relate to Major Charles Milne Cholmeley Dowling shot by Michael Collins Squad at 28 Pembroke Street on Bloody Sunday, 21 November 1920. This is a guess based purely on the name and the fact it originates from Tom Keogh.





If anyone can clarify the backgroung to that document or add any information to any of the other items there please get in touch either by pm or via the email address link on the site.

*Please note the moderators do not need to remove the pictures for copyright reasons (as happened previously) as I own the site and materials and am posting here for educational /research reasons.

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