08 January
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Castlehackett RIC barracks (Glenseagh Hill, north Galway) was attacked last night by Irish Volunteer units from the North Galway (Tuam) battalion, comprising of members of the Sylane and Barnaderg Irish Volunteer companies. The attack was led by Michael Moran, commandant of the Tuam battalion. the purpose of the mission was to seize weapons – more than ninety guns collected or seized from local people were stored there, and the RIC constables were equipped with rifles and ammunition. On the way to the attack, the Barnaderg company volunteers cut the telegraph wires at Claretuam, and the Sylane company cut the telegraph wires at Cave Hill. VolunteerRead More →

03 February
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Image courtesy of Public Record Office of Northern Ireland Flickr photostream. Eamon De Valera has escaped from Lincoln Prison, along with two companions (Sean Milroy and Sean McGarry).  De Valera had assisted the prison chaplain at the weekly mass, and was able to take advantage of this role to make a replica key in secret. De Valera and his companions were helped to escape by Reublican activists outside the prison, including Michael Collins and Harry Boland. Police in Westminister are on alert, in case De Valera attempts to enter the Houses of Parliament as an MP, asserting parliamentary immunity.Read More →

21 January
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The first Dáil has met today in the Mansion House in Dublin. The Declaration of Independence was  read in Irish (by Cathal Brugha) , English (by Edmund Duggan) and in French ( by George Gavan Duffy) :- Whereas the Irish people is by right a free people: And Whereas for seven hundred years the Irish people has never ceased to repudiate and has repeatedly protested in arms against foreign usurpation: And Whereas English rule in this country is, and always has been, based upon force and fraud and maintained by military occupation against the declared will of the people: And Whereas the Irish Republic wasRead More →

14 January
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The Sinn Fein MPs not incarcerated in the government met in the Mansion House in Dublin today. Count Plunkett informed the gathering that invitations had been sent to all Irish-elected MPs to assemble as Dáil Eireann. So far, only one response had been received – a Decline from Sir Robert Woods (Independent Unionist MP for Dublin University). It has agreed that the first meeting of Dáil Eireann should take place as soon as possible, and that only urgent business would be dealt with (as 35 Sinn Fein MPs are currently in jail or in exile) It was also agreed to recommend that the following membersRead More →