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94
CS to D, 28 January 1927, in MTUCDA P69/41 (9).

95
D to CS, 30 January 1927, in MTUCDA P69/no number, grouped with file 41.

96
CS to D, 4 February 1927, in MTUCDA P69/41 (4).

97
CS to George, 2 May 1927, in MTUCDA P69/48 (75).

98
MacEoin,
The IRA in the Twilight Years
, p. 141; Hanley,
The IRA, 1926–1936
, pp. 196–7;
Irish Times
, 8 November 1927.

99
MacEoin,
The IRA in the Twilight Years
, pp. 279–80; Hanley,
The IRA, 1926–1936
, pp. 196–7.

100
S O'S to J J, 8 May 1926 [?], in MTUCDA P69/197 (163).

101
S O'S to DI, 17 May 1927, in MTUCDA P69/197 (160–1).

102
S O'S to DI, 17 May 1927, in MTUCDA P69/197 (160–1).

103
From J J, 1 December 1927, in MTUCDA P69/197 (60).

104
Connacht Tribune
, 17 May 1924.

105
MacEoin,
The IRA in the Twilight Years
, p. 125.

106
Irish Independent
, 23 April 1926.

107
Ibid
.

108
S O'S to DI, 17 May 1927, in MTUCDA P69/197 (160–1).

109
Irish Independent
, 23 April 1926;
An Phoblacht
, 19 February 1926.

110
O'Connor, E.,
Reds and the Green: Ireland, Russia and the Communist Internationals 1919–43
(UCD Press, Dublin, 2004), pp. 105,109.

111
Letter received by Mrs Despard, 16 March 1926, in MTUCDA P69/193 (124).

112
MD to Mr Brown, 15 January 1927, in MTUCDA P69/132–3.

113
Neenan to Twomey, 1933, in MTUCDA P69/135 (51).

114
Mac Con Uladh, D.,
Jack Keogh – Ballinasloe IRA
(
www.Ballinasloe.org,
2005–2007).

115
Connacht Tribune
, 12 May 1945.

C
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6: T
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IRA
IN
B
RITAIN

1
Hart, P.,
The IRA at War 1916–1923
(Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2003), p. 145.

2
Ibid
., pp. 142–59.

3
Lawlor, C,
Sean MacBride, That Day's Struggle
.

4
Murray in the O'Malley notebooks, UCDA, P17b/88.

5
Ibid
.

6
MacEoin, U.,
The IRA in the Twilight Years, 1923–1948
, p. 116.

7
O'Malley, C. and Dolan, A.,
‘No Surrender here!' The Civil War Papers of Ernie O'Malley
1922–1924
(Lilliput Press, Dublin, 2007).

8
AG, report on Britain, 17 November 1924, in MTUCDA P69/44 (366–9).

9
General W. Krivitsky's MI5 file; CAB 126/250 from the National Archives, Kew.

10
CS to OC. Britain, 16 April 1926, in MTUCDA P69/44 (182).

11
Hart,
The IRA at War
, pp. 174–5.

12
Hanley,
The IRA, 1926–1936
, pp. 170–1.

13
March 1926, in MTUCDA P69/12 (61).

14
‘E', Memorandum to members of Army Council on our future policy in Britain, 21 February 1926, in MTUCDA P69/183 (65–6).

15
Hanley,
The IRA, 1926–1936
, p. 171.

16
CS to OC No 2 Area, 14 October 1923 [1926], in MTUCDA P69/47 (98).

17
Memorandum to members of Army Council on our future policy in Britain, 21 February 1926, in MTUCDA P69/181 (65).

18
Minutes of meeting of the Army Executive, 27 April 1927, in MTUCDA P69/48 (104–5).

19
OC. Britain to CS, 19 March 1926, in MTUCDA P69/44 (262).

20
OC. Britain to CS, 27 April 1927, in MTUCDA P69/44 (78).

21
OC. Britain to CS, 27 April 1927, in MTUCDA P69/44 (78).

22
CS to OC. Britain, 3 May 1926, in MTUCDA P69/44 (73–4).

23
Taylor, R., ‘The General Strike', Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics, ESRC website:
www.esrc.ac.uk
, reviewed 28 February 2008.

24
Irish Times
, 4 May 1926.

25
CS to OC. Britain, 23 April 1926, in MTUCDA P69/44 (183). In this discussion of the general strike of 1926 Moss Twomey, rather than Andy Cooney, is credited as being the author of letters signed ‘chief of staff'. Based on evidence discussed in Chapter 2 it seems likely that Twomey took over the role of chief of staff in April 1926.

26
OC. Britain to CS, 27 April 1926, in MTUCDA P69/44 (79).

27
Encyclopaedia Britannica
, United Kingdom, ‘The Baldwin era and General Strike';
Wikipedia
, ‘UK General Strike of 1926', reviewed 21 May 2007; Taylor, ‘The General Strike',
www.esrc.ac.uk
, reviewed 28 February 2008; Cunliffe, B., Bartlett, R.,
et al
,
The Penguin Atlas of British and Irish History
(Penguin Books, London, 2001), pp. 236–8.

28
CS to OC. Britain, 3 May 1926, in MTUCDA P69/44 (72).

29
CS to OC. Britain, 5 May 1926, in MTUCDA P69/44 (29).

30
CS to ‘Mr Davis', 6 May 1926, in MTUCDA P69/44 (26).

31
Irish Times
, 11 May 1926.

32
Irish Times
, 10 May 1926;
Encyclopaedia Britannica
, United Kingdom, ‘The Baldwin era and General Strike';
Wikipedia
, ‘UK General Strike of 1926', reviewed 21 May 2007.

33
Hart,
The IRA at War
, pp. 158–9.

34
DI to IO's All Units, 12 April 1923 (the year may actually be 1926), in MTUCDA P69/12 (64–5).

35
CS to OC Cork 1 brigade, 20 September [probably 1926], in MTUCDA P69/41 (26).

36
JJ to ‘A Cara', 1 December 1927, in MTUCDA P69/197 (60).

37
CS to adjt. North Mayo, 26 October 1923 [1926] in P69/39 (107).

38
CS to HS, 24 February 1924 [1927], in MTUCDA P69/48 (297–8).

39
New York Times
, 8 September 1938.
Time
, 19 September 1938.

40
CS to HS, 2 March 1927, in MTUCDA P69/48 (272–3).

41
The street address is given as Coverdale Street, but this probably should have been Coverdale Crescent; HS to CS, 14 March 1924 [1927], in MTUCDA P69/48 (246).

42
‘Eyewitness in Manchester', from
www.manchesteronline.co.uk
website, reviewed 1 March 2008; McGee, O.,
The IRB: The Irish Republican Brotherhood from the Land League to Sinn Féin
(Four Courts Press, Dublin, 2005), pp. 36–7.

43
Adjt to AG, 5 November 1926, in MTUCDA P69/47 (56).

44
CS to HS, 14 October 1926, in MTUCDA P69/47 (76).

45
QMG to CS, 18 November 1926, in MTUCDA P69/41 (18).

46
HS to CS, 1 November 1926, in MTUCDA P69/41 (30).

47
QMG to CS, 18 November 1926, in MTUCDA P69/41 (18).

48
HS to CS, 10 November 1926, in MTUCDA P69/41 (28).

49
QMG to CS, 18 November 1926, in MTUCDA P69/41 (18).

50
CS to HS, 18 February 1924 [1927], in MTUCDA P69/48 (300).

51
HS to CS, 25 February 1927, in MTUCDA P69/48 (293–4).

52
CS to HS, 2 March 1927, in MTUCDA P69/48 (272–3).

53
HS to CS, 5 March 1927, in MTUCDA P69/48 (260–1); In this letter HS wrote that he ‘may be able to get a friend to assist in this matter', i.e. repacking the explosives from their original casks; HS to CS, 14 March 1924 [1927], in MTUCDA P69/48 (246); HS to CS, 18 March 1924 [1927], in MTUCDA P69/48 (210).

54
Unsigned to HS, 21 March 1927, in MTUCDA P69/48 (209).

55
CS to HS, 6 April 1927, in MTUCDA P69/48 (143).

56
CS to ‘Dear Sir', 16 June 1927, in MTUCDA P69/48 (3).

57
HS to MD, 20 June 1924 [1927], in MTUCDA P69/48 (2).

58
MD to HS, 23 June 1927, in MTUCDA P69/48 (1).

59
Unsigned to HS, 21 September 1927, in MTUCDA P69/150 (33).

60
Unsigned to HS, 26 September 1927, in MTUCDA P69/150 (28).

61
HS to MD, 26 September 1924 [1927], in MTUCDA P69/150 (29); HS to MD, 29 September 1924 [1927], in MTUCDA P69/150 (27).

62
Unsigned to HS, 3 October 1927, in MTUCDA P69/150 (25).

63
HS to MD, 14 October 1924 [1927], in MTUCDA P69/150 (21).

64
CS to OC. Britain, 8 April 1926, in MTUCDA P69/44 (218).

65
CS to OC. Britain, 23 April 1926, in MTUCDA P69/44 (81); OC. Britain to CS, 27 April 1926, in MTUCDA P69/44 (79).

66
Hanley,
The IRA, 1926–1936
, pp. 33, 220. MacEoin,
The IRA in the Twilight Years
, p. 129; MacEoin writes that Killeen served three months, while Hanley states six months.

67
HS to CS, 6 October 1926, in MTUCDA P69/47 (80).

68
‘For CS' to HS, 8 November 1926, in MTUCDA P69/41 (29) Act; CS to HS, 13 November 1926 in P69/41 (20).

69
Act. CS to HS, 13 November 1926 in P69/41 (20). HS to CS, 10 November 1926, in MTUCDA P69/41 (28).

70
CS to HS, 14 October 1923 [1926], in MTUCDA P69/47 (76).

71
HS to CS, 17 October 1926, in MTUCDA P69/41 (32).

72
CS to OC. Britain, 23 April 1926, in MTUCDA P69/44 (81); CS to S. Capt W, 30 April 1923 [1926], in MTUCDA P69/44 (16).

73
Unsigned to CS, 7 February 1927, in MTUCDA P69/48 (310).

74
Unsigned to CS, 5 March 1927, in MTUCDA P69/48 (260–1).

75
OC No 2 Area to CS, 18 March 1927, in MTUCDA P69/48 (191).

76
CS to QMG, 12 March 1923 [1926], in MTUCDA P69/44 (320).

77
CS to HS, 14 October 1923 [1926], in MTUCDA P69/47 (76); HS to CS 17 October 1926, in MTUCDA P69/41 (32)

78
www.guardian.com
website, 22 December 2005.

79
MD to HS, 17 October 1927, in MTUCDA P69/150 (20).

80
Hart,
The IRA at War
, pp. 194–220;
Wikipedia
, ‘Henry Hughes Wilson',
www.wikipedia.org
, reviewed 21 February 2008.

81
New York Times
, 7 October 1905.

82
CS to HS, 28 January 1924 [1927], in MTUCDA P69/48 (311).

83
HS to CS, 6 October 1926, in MTUCDA P69/47 (80).

84
Parsons' shop was a well known Dublin landmark and at the time was a general store and newsagents owned by Benjamin Parsons. During the Anglo-Irish War, a printer was installed in the basement to produce a republican newssheet. In 1949 the family sold the shop; see: Lynch, B.,
Parsons Bookshop
(The Liffey Press, Dublin, 2006), p. 3; HS to CS, 27 March 1927, in MTUCDA P69/48 (186).

85
Lawlor,
Seán MacBride, That Day's Struggle
, pp. 86–7.

86
Newspaper cutting, no date, P69/48 (52-53). File on Ethel Chiles, National Archives, Kew, KV 2/591. HS to CS, 18 March 1924 [1927] in MTUCDA P69/48 (210). MD to HS, 6 May 1927 in MTUCDA P69/48 (50). HS to CS, 14 May 1924 [1927] in MTUCDA P69/48 (23).

87
Martin to [no name], 19 April 1926, in MTUCDA P69/44 (187).

88
OC. Britain to CS, 21 April 1926, in MTUCDA P69/44 (186); CS to OC. Britain, 3 May 1926, in MTUCDA P69/44 (73–4).

89
Unsigned to Rev. McKenna, 27 April 1926, in MTUCDA P69/44 (176).

90
CS to OC. Britain, 23 April 1926, in MTUCDA P69/44 (82).

91
OC. Britain to CS, 27 April 1926, in MTUCDA P69/44 (79).

92
O'Farrell, P.,
Who's Who in the Irish War of Independence and Civil War, 1916–1923
(Lilliput Press, Dublin, 1997), p.26.

93
OC. Britain to CS, 24 April 1926, in MTUCDA P69/44 (80).

94
CS to OC. Britain, 17 April 1926, in MTUCDA P69/44 (195).

95
CS to OC. Britain, 3 May 1926, in MTUCDA P69/44 (73–4).

96
Ted to CS, 14 May 1927, in MTUCDA P69/48 (5–6); HS to CS, 17 May 1924 [1927], in MTUCDA P69/48 (20). MD to HS, 28 May 1927, in MTUCDA P69/ 48 (17).

97
CS to Ted, 16 June 1927, in MTUCDA P69/48 (4).

98
CS to OC. Britain, 23 April 1926, in MTUCDA P69/44 (82).

99
OC. Britain to CS, 27 April 1926, in MTUCDA P69/44 (79).

100
CS to OC. Britain, 23 April 1926, in MTUCDA P69/44 (82).

101
OC. Britain to CS, 27 April 1926, in MTUCDA P69/44 (79).

102
S to Mr Jones, 10 November 1926, in MTUCDA P69/183 (173–4).

103
CS to HS, 9 February 1924 [1927], in MTUCDA P69/48 (308).

104
Unsigned to CS, 5 March 1927, in MTUCDA P69/48 (260–1).

105
CS to HS, 10 March 1927, in MTUCDA P69/48 (250).

106
CS to HS, 14 October 1923 [1926] in MUCDA P69/47 (76).

107
HS to CS, 17 October 1926, in MTUCDA P69/41 (32).

108
MTUCDA P 69/196 (50); IO Number 3 Area to DI, 9 December 1926, in MTUCDA P69/193 (67).

109
Letter from the Midland battalion, in MTUCDA P69/193 (8).

110
Newspaper cutting, 25 December 1927, in MTUCDA, no reference number.

111
Newspaper cutting, no date, attached to a document from the DI to the adjt. Tipperary brigade, 16 November 1927, in MTUCDA P69/197 (66).

112
HS to CS, 14 Dec 1926, in MTUCDA P69/47 (9).

113
CS to HS, 24 February 1924 [1927], in MTUCDA P69/48 (297–8).

114
CS to HS, 28 January 1924 [1927], in MTUCDA P69/48 (311); CS to HS, 24 February 1924 [1927], in MTUCDA P69/48 (297–8).

115
CS to HS, 28 January 1924 [1927], in MTUCDA P69/48 (311).