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Dublin / Re: Custom House Burning - Part 2 (John Wilson)
« on: Tuesday 05 April 11 20:10 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: gkenny on Tuesday 05 April 11 18:15 BST (UK)
This might be interesting to some, it is a postcard from the private collection of Vincent Byrne, E company 2nd Battalion Old IRA. Postcard of a drawing showing the Burning of the Custom House, by a 2nd Battalion IRA artist,

http://www.militaria-archive.com/independence/vb-photo/content/bing/images/large/Vinny_Byrne_Photo_56.jpg

http://www.militaria-archive.com/independence/vb-photo/content/bing/images/large/Vinny_Byrne_Photo_57.jpg

That's a great picture! Thanks very much for posting it. Does anyone else know of the Thomas and Peter Gaffney who were mentioned by diarmuid in part 1 of this thread?

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Dublin / Re: Custom House Burning / John Wilson
« on: Friday 26 November 10 16:17 GMT (UK)  »
Hi folks. So this Leo Duffy definitely isn't the same man. I'm really glad that we found that out before I went to print! If you have any more information on your relation - job, attitudes to the politicians etc. then I'd really like to hear them. All the best, Seanod.

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Dublin / Re: Custom House Burning / John Wilson
« on: Thursday 25 November 10 15:39 GMT (UK)  »
Hi folks, and particularly to Roosterno1. I'm interested in the information you have about Leo Duffy. I found a reference to the death of Leo Duffy by shooting in 1938 in one of the papers - he was shot on Sunday the 1st of January 1938, at 20 Charleville Road, Rathmines. He was shot by his brother Christopher Duffy, who had mental health problems. According to the obit he was in C Company, 3rd Battalion of the Dublin Brigade and was Vice President of the Old Dublin Brigade Association. Duffy is not an uncommon name and it's not impossible that I have got the wrong man but I am confused by the BMH List, (list of arrested at the time of Custom House attack) which gives his address as 9 Back Lane, Cornmarket, Dublin. In the 1911 census, he was at 9 Back Lane, Merchant’s Quay (obviously the same place) and he had a brother called Christopher who was then 20, Leo was 7. Their father was a carpenter from Dublin. Are you sure that the information you have been supplied with is accurate? People sometimes change these kind of details because of the stigma associated with mental illness.

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Dublin / Re: Custom House Burning / John Wilson
« on: Thursday 26 August 10 15:57 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: auntienellie on Thursday 08 July 10 00:45 BST (UK)
Quote from: seanod on Wednesday 03 February 10 13:33 GMT (UK)
Hi, I have had a similar problem with the O'Reilly brothers. I know they came from the Jones' Road area but I can't find them in the Census at all. As they were Gaeilgeoirí I have tried Ua Raghailligh, Ua Rathaile and every permutation I can think of  but with no result. I con't know if people were prosecuted for not giving their census details? Anyway, I just had a look and Louisa Herbert was living at Fitzwilliam Place North (Arran Quay, Dublin) in the 1911 Census. She had a brother called Matthew who was 26 at that time, so he could be the man in the picture, who would then be in his mid 30s.  :)

The O'Reilly brothers, Patrick and Stephen, lived in 3 Wellesley Place in 1911

Hi Auntie Nellie. I am sorry not to have replied sooner. I didn't notice your post. That's great. I managed to find Patrick under the name Reilly but his brother isn't there. He must have been elsewhere at the time of the census. I was looking under various names of places but Wesley Place and Wellesley Place didn't come up because it is down as Wellsley. Computers really help things sometimes but they can make searching difficult as even one letter out of place can be enough to throw the computer completely. Thanks for your help!

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Dublin / Re: Old IRA Dublin Brigade
« on: Thursday 10 June 10 16:28 BST (UK)  »
Que vida esta!  :) I think there are a number of individuals mentioned by T. Ryle Dwyer, probably the names you have. Teeling was captured, of course, and a man called Lean was shot in the hand. (I think Dwyer calls him McLean). He was later involved in a murder in Scartaglin in Kerry in 1924. He stood trial but the sentence of death was commuted because the main protagonist (Jeremiah Gaffney) took full responsibility. His being injured with Teeling is mentioned in one of the newspaper reports, so it is definitely the same man. If my memory serves me right, Slattery was in charge of the picket and Slattery killed the two Auxiliaries. Hope that helps.

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Dublin / Re: Old IRA Dublin Brigade
« on: Thursday 10 June 10 15:59 BST (UK)  »
Hola, Corisande, Que tal estas? My great-uncle was Edward Dorins - I have put details onto Wikipedia. As I said above, the connection with Bloody Sunday is only speculative and is based on two things - his well-documented abduction and near-drowning by Auxiliaries at the beginning of February 1921 and his status as NCO. These lead me to think that he must have been involved in some kind of action earlier than his abduction, and Mount Street is the most likely event because so many of E Company were in it. However, there were other actions around the same time and earlier, so unless I find something in the witness statements it would be safer to assume that he didn't take part.  :)

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Dublin / Re: Custom House Burning / John Wilson
« on: Friday 02 April 10 14:29 BST (UK)  »
Thanks a lot for that! I'll check it out.  :)

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Dublin / Re: Micheal Collins and 'The Squad'.
« on: Friday 02 April 10 14:13 BST (UK)  »
That's great! Thanks a lot. So there is obviously no connection with this Nicholas Leonard.

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Dublin / Re: Custom House Burning / John Wilson
« on: Thursday 01 April 10 14:54 BST (UK)  »
Hi Greaghglass, Unfortunately I still can't find them using those names. It is possible that they moved on somewhere else after the 1901 census - if they were in Ireland at the time of the census they won't show up there, as it hasn't been digitised yet. However, it does seem strange that the index of births for England and Wales isn't showing a Charles McCabe in Lancashire for 1899 or the years around. Perhaps he was born somewhere else?

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