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Re: Robert Monteith - Irish Volunteers
« Reply #9 on: Thursday 31 December 09 19:59 GMT (UK) »
Post 2. I have just joined because I stumbled on your post Corisande about Robert Monteith.

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Re: Robert Monteith - Irish Volunteers
« Reply #10 on: Thursday 31 December 09 20:01 GMT (UK) »
Post 3. I am interested in sharing info about Robert Monteith as he is a relation of mine.

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Re: Robert Monteith - Irish Volunteers
« Reply #11 on: Friday 26 March 10 12:50 GMT (UK) »
Bannastrand,

Never heard back from you  :(
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Re: Robert Monteith - Irish Volunteers
« Reply #12 on: Monday 02 August 10 21:56 BST (UK) »
I noticed your entry about Captain Monteith . I have just inherited my grandfather's papers and his account of his days in the Irish Volunteers and IRA. His name was Peter Reynolds , he owned a Motor Cycle repair shop and was used as a message courier and he records that "I had a message to deliver from the Countess Markievice to Captain Monteith ....... I left my house (164 North King Street)on a motor cycle at 2.30 (Infuriatingly he does not say what day, but it was in his entries for 1914) to meet the captain at Nelson's Pillar  ( by the GPO in O'Connell St, or Sackville St as it was.)On  the way my grandfather write that he had an accident and was taken to hospital but refused to stay as he had to meet Monteith, which he did, and delivered the message..
Hewrites of further meetings and of being present when police came to Monteith's house (after he had returned from USA) with an order for him to leave Dublin. Apparently Monteith was sent to Athboy some 42 miles from Dublin.


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Re: Robert Monteith - Irish Volunteers
« Reply #13 on: Wednesday 18 August 10 17:32 BST (UK) »
Thanks for that info on your grandfather's dealings with Capt Monteith. It all helps to put together the picture on what was going on.

You should consider publishing the papers you have, or giving a copy to whatever Dublin library is dealing with such papers at the moment. No doubt one of the forum readers in Dublin could advise.
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Re: Robert Monteith - Irish Volunteers
« Reply #14 on: Friday 24 September 10 21:51 BST (UK) »
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I would be interested in learning more about your grandfathers papers. Does he reference other message couriers in Meath? Is there any reference to a MacMahon or O'Grady? 

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Re: Robert Monteith - Irish Volunteers
« Reply #15 on: Friday 24 September 10 21:59 BST (UK) »
You should publish your grandfather's papers. Is there a reference to MacMahons or O'grady's who would also have been dispatchers in the Meath (Navan/Athboy) areas in 1916.

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Re: Robert Monteith - Irish Volunteers
« Reply #16 on: Sunday 31 October 10 06:25 GMT (UK) »
I too would be nterested to learn more about Robert Monteith - my great Grandfather and great Grandmother hid him in their house and looked after him shortly after he landed.  Would love to know more.

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Re: Robert Monteith - Irish Volunteers
« Reply #17 on: Wednesday 10 November 10 23:38 GMT (UK) »
Carrumba

If you click   this link to the page I have on Robert Monteith , it will give you  a lot of background
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