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A genealogy research journey that absolutely brings the past to life. And what a past it is!
The book begins in a very unexpected location for a tale following Jewish roots. In Tokyo! The author inherits 264 Japanese Netsuke (one first learns what they are) from his great-uncle in Tokyo. An inheritance from the author's grandmother's great-uncle (read that again to let it sink in) who was busy being a patron to such impressionist artists as Renoir in Paris. By following the trail of the Netsuke the story takes the reader on a journey with a unusal family from Odessa to Paris, Vienna, Britain and Tokyo. These places are vividly brought to life at the different time periods as well as the characters.
The author is a ceramic artist and there is a great deal of emphasis on art, particularly in the first part . The first part reads slower but then the pace picks up (with richer details) when the tale moves to Vienna. I knew very little about Vienna, particularly before and during WWI and now I feel I can picture so much. Historical facts are intertwined so cleverly with the family's personal history that everything is in an understandable context.
I'm blown away by the research he conducted – this is a family that left a huge paper trail.
Of course, it all boils down to what you do with all that information and I found the writing skillful and the language rich.
I've always prided myself on almost always using games that actually require the students to practice the target language. Take board games, for example. The target language isn't printed on the board, where the students can memorize what to do / say according to location. The target language is always on cards that we shuffle and change.
But I did play "hangman" with my deaf and hard of hearing students sometimes. My rationale was that slowly filling in each missing letter of the unknown word makes the students really pay attention to the word and what it looks like.
At the ETAI International Conference I attended last July, quite a few speakers brought up the issue of precious time being wasted on activities, including games, where what was really being practiced was not meaningful use of the language. "Hangman" was mentioned as an example.
My deaf and hard of hearing students need emphasis on the visual aspect – it would seem that this game makes students look very carefully at the letters that form the word, which helps them commit the word to memory.
I'll have to admit it doesn't.
When I look back on the times we've played it in class, I think the thing we reviewed most is the alphabet. Some students may have picked up some information about the frequency of letters in a word. But once my high school students discovered what the hidden word was, often after randomly and wildly guessing letters, most of them were not interested in the word itself and the meaning of the word went in one eye and out the other (eyes are better than ears in my classes, remember?). Usage and context wasn't even a question. The students mainly wanted to know if we have time to guess another word before the bell!
But I'm NOT Being NITPICKY, Students!
A friendly argument with another teacher about my claim that even though we are NOT following Penny Ur's advice and using our students' names, the fact that the students themselves are choosing the names of the famous people included in the box will still have a personalizing effect. Students in special education classes are particularly sensitive and I firmly believe extra precautions are required (I use students' names when I control the sentences, not a book).
Nevertheless, we began. Eleven students have already chosen their famous person. Along with the person's name each student had to add the occupation and country (of origin).
I was really pleased that the students were interested in the names of professions and countries in English. The difference between "America" and "American" came up and we looked at how Brazil is really spelled.
But then I ran into trouble. Three students chose names of actors. Great! Except for the fact that they referred to the profession as "players".
I called everyone's attention to the fact and tried to explain the difference between a football player and an actor.
The boys in the class thought I was talking nonsense. Why was I inventing a distinction? Why was I being nitpicky?
How do I tell you about this book without spoiling it for you? I want you to enjoy it too!
I started it in the best possible way – I read the first few pages, got totally hooked and didn't want to stop. I knew nothing about the book and that worked out really well. Reviews I have seen since completing the book include spoilers! Don't read the plot online!
I can say that its a young adult book (you can tell) . I generally like young adult books but am usually good at predicting events in them. In this book I was often surprised.
The author thanks Ray Bradbury in the forward. I actually think the book has elements that remind me of "The Never Ending Story" & "The Fault in our Stars". And yes, there is a part where you will probably be glad if a tissue box is nearby.
The color blue is important here.
There are some bits in the beginning which are slightly confusing but otherwise its a very engaging read, a really moving story with parts that I simply could not stop reading. I finished it quite quickly! I just had to know how it would turn out.


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More infra, development projects for Cebu
CEBU CITY - The province of Cebu concluded 2019 with a bullish investment program on infrastructure development aimed at addressing traffic congestion and flooding.
"In the pipeline are the big-ticket projects which the Duterte administration is determined to finance to boost socio-economic development in Central Visayas and to ease our burden due to traffic problem," said Secretary Michael Lloyd Dino, Presidential Assistant for the Visayas.
He said at least 7 big-ticket projects include infrastructure development programs aimed at addressing traffic congestion in Metro Cebu. Among the projects is the 73-kilometer Metro Cebu Expressway that will span from Naga City in the south to Danao City in the north is a long high standard arterial road to meet existing and future traffic demands.
The P28-billion expressway project which traverses mountain slopes in Cebu is expected to serve as another north-south backbone highway aimed to provide seamless traffic flow from Naga City to Danao City.
Next to the expressway is the Talisay-Minglanilla-Naga and Mandaue-Consolacion-Liloan bypass roads worth P200 million each. The roads are expected to ease the traffic situation in Metro Cebu and are on the list of the proposed priority programs of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH-7) and included in the budget proposal of the DPWH central office for fiscal year 2020.
Apart from these two bypass roads, the Guadalupe-Lahug Diversion Road is also among the infrastructure projects of DPWH-7 that will ease the traffic flow around the uptown district of this city.
Edgar Tabacon, DPWH-7 regional director, said the detailed engineering design for the P40-million diversion road project is part of the list of projects included in the 2020 budget proposal of the DPWH central office. The General Appropriations Act of 2019 allocated P90 million for the detailed engineering design of the Metro Cebu Flood Control and Drainage Master Plan, he said.
The provincial government of Cebu, through a resolution sponsored by Provincial Board Member Glenn Anthony Soco, encouraged local governments to align their respective drainage and flood projects to the master plan.
Dino said the Mandaue-Mactan link bridge with a segment for the Mandaue Coastal Road is also a high impact project to be funded through the Official Development Assistance from the Japanese government.
He said the New Cebu International Container Port in Talisay City which is now under construction is also expected to decongest both the container yard in the existing Cebu International Port and the traffic congestion along the service road that runs parallel with the Sergio Osmeña Street leading to a big mall at the North Reclamation Area and Mandaue Reclamation Area.
The Regional Development Council-7 has also endorsed P167.9-billion worth of programs, activities and projects for the Central Visayas with the biggest chunk worth P90 billion represents allocation for Cebu's development program.
About 65 percent of the P90 billion will go to Cebu's infrastructure program, while P30 billion for social development, P846.1 million for economic enterprises and P344.5 million for development administration, according to Dino.
He said among the projects to be funded is the construction of fire stations in Sibonga in Santa Fe, Aloguinsan, Poro in Camotes; Tuburan, Minglanilla and the rehabilitation of the Bureau of Fire Protection regional office here.
The body also endorsed the proposed construction of the regional office of the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology and the construction of jail facilities in Carcar City, Argao, Barili, Oslob in the south and Carmen, Lapu-Lapu City, Cordova, Consolacion and Bogo in the north.
Dino said under the health facilities and enhancement program of the Department of Health (DOH-7), Cebu has requested P539 million for infrastructure, P260 million for equipment, P44 million for medical transport.
Imelda Laseras, regional director of the Department of Budget Management (DBM-7), reminded the government agencies to endorse implementation-ready projects.
For his part, Tabacon said the DPWH-7 is already conducting parcellary survey and appraisal of properties affected in the projects that they will implement in 2020. "We will already prepare the offer to pay the owner of the properties. Those who refused, we prepared expropriation case to be filed in court upon approval of the 2020 budget," he said.
While he admitted that right of way acquisition was the challenge they are facing, Tabacon said they are exerting all efforts to address this issue on infrastructure development for the benefit of the public. (John Rey Saavedra)
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Q: Build version of react project does not redirect site properly I built the project using "npm run build", then used the "serve -s build" command, so it's hosted on localhost:5000.
The project itself is in React while it can redirect to some other included sites which are in vanilla html/js.
I redirect the site using this command:
<BrowserRouter>
       <Route exact path="/" render={() => {window.location.href="tv/indextv.html?m="+auth.currentUser.email+"&p="+othermail+"&t="+othertoken}} />
      </BrowserRouter>

Without building, (just using npm start), this happens:
The url changes as it should to localhost:3000/tv/indextv.html?m=...&p=..&t=... , and the site itself shows that vanilla javascript html page.
Using the build version:
http://localhost:5000/tv/indextv

And the site itself does not get redirected.
Why does the build version has this error, and how can I fix it?
The react project is using firebase if it matters.

A: First you need to make sure your homepage address is set to your website url, you can do that by going to package.json file in you project root and adding a homepage key with value of your website address.
If that did not solve your problem you can try to solve this problem by

*

*adding hash to your url before each route: use HashRouter instead of browser route

*redirect every request to index.html, so you should add the code below to .htaccess file in your Apache server:

Options -MultiViews
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^ index.html [QSA,L]

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Concept and design of the spaces and furnitures of a multi-brand clothing store. The shop is developed longways along two corridors, the partitions are all made of opalescent glass. Essential for the design of the furnitures are the thin sheets of transparent glass that form the clothes racks and the shelf supports. The black floor and the white ceiling mark the horizontal space.


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The health advisor shares her simple recipe for the easiest meal preparation recipe you will ever make
Floyd Mayweather, 43, denies he's engaged to stripper Anna Monroe
TOWIE star Mick Norcross was found dead at the age of 57
TOWIE's James Argent and Lauren Goodger co-star Mick Norcross after his death
The patients were evacuated from the hospital in Leeds to a cold of 1 ° C, a fire reported
Leicester University denies dropping Chaucer for being "too white" based on suggestions
Joe Biden reveals he didn't have a COVID test today and won't have one until Sunday
Joe Biden reveals that he didn't have a COVID test on Saturday and won't have one until Sunday, despite fears he could still develop symptoms from the debate with Donald Trump
Joe Biden said Saturday he hadn't been tested during the day
Biden's last test was on Friday, when both he and his wife Jill tested negative
The 77-year-old said his next test will be on Sunday
Fears remain that Biden may have been infected during Tuesday's debate
Eleven members of the setup and planning team have COVID-19
Donald Trump was hospitalized on Friday after testing positive
By Harriet Alexander for Dailymail.com
Released: 8:06 PM EDT, Oct 3, 2020 | Updated: 1:48 AM EDT, Oct 4, 2020
Joe Biden wasn't tested for COVID-19 on Saturday and won't be tested until Sunday, he said.
The 77-year-old is at high risk due to his age if he catches the virus. Four days ago he was with Donald Trump at the presidential debate in Cleveland. Trump has since tested positive for the virus and is in the hospital.
On Saturday morning, Biden was at mass in a church in downtown Wilmington, Delaware – his hometown.
As he was leaving the church, he was asked if he had been tested today.
"No – but I'll be in the morning," he said.
Then he got into his motorcade without answering other shouted questions.
Joe Biden attended Mass in Wilmington on Saturday and said he hadn't had a COVID test
Biden, who is scheduled to leave church on Saturday, was last tested for coronavirus on Friday
Four days ago, on Tuesday, Trump – who tested positive – was in close proximity to Biden
Biden continues his campaign despite fears of the Trump campaign.
However, they removed the personal attack ads.
The former Vice President is due to travel to Florida with his wife Jill on Monday.
On Friday, when news of Trump's diagnosis was confirmed, Biden gave a message from the unit, stating in his Grand Rapids speech that this could not be a "partisan moment".
Americans, he said, must "come together as a nation".
Biden expressed sympathy for Trump following his COVID-19 diagnosis, saying, "Jill and I send our thoughts to President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump for a speedy recovery. We will continue to pray for the health and safety of the President and his family. & # 39;
Biden has taken a cautious approach in his personal campaigns by hosting small, socially aloof events while following state and local public health recommendations regarding masks.
Trump has repeatedly ridiculed him for being stuck in his basement avoiding mass rallies.
Biden, who was photographed leaving church on Saturday, was ridiculed for wearing a mask
Biden only recently started in-person acquisitions after mostly virtual events took place due to the pandemic.
Trump, on the other hand, continued to host controversial large-scale personal rallies where participants were packed up and seen without a mask.
Biden's personal campaign comes at a crucial point in the presidential race, just weeks before the election.
Earlier this week he stepped up with a 7-hour train tour of Ohio and Pennsylvania.
Next week, in addition to visiting Florida, he will have his first campaign event in Arizona.
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Jim Carrey and Alec Baldwin re-enact Trump and Biden's disastrous presidential debate over SNL
Police looking for a gunman who opened fire at the pro-Trump rally in Ohio
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Trevor Taylor (Sheffield, 1936. december 26. – 2010. szeptember 27.) amerikai autóversenyző.

Pályafutása

1958-ban és 1960-ban brit Formula–3-as bajnok volt.

1959 és 1966 között huszonkilenc világbajnoki Formula–1-es nagydíjon vett részt. Egy alkalommal végzett a dobogón és további kétszer volt pontszerző.

1961-ben részt vett a Le Mans-i 24 órás versenyen. Taylor, William E.J. Allen társaként a tizenkettedik helyen ért célba, ami egyben a  GT 1.3-as kategória első helyét is jelentette.

Eredményei

Teljes Formula–1-es eredménysorozata

Le Mans-i 24 órás autóverseny

Jegyzetek

Külső hivatkozások
 Profilja a grandprix.com honlapon
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Brit autóversenyzők
Brit Formula–1-es versenyzők
Brit Formula–2-es versenyzők
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As the case said, Recorded Future is a big data start up that offers a predictive model software using business intelligence tools and it's primary focus on government intelligence agencies and some private corporations.
One of the biggest problems they are facing right now is identify if growth will come from premise based (Foresite Platform) analysis of information in side organization or a web based solution (SaaS). The answer of this question will make them wondering about their actual customer segment (Government intelligence agencies).
According to research by MGI and McKinsey's Business Technology Office1 about the future of big data in five domains: healthcare, public sector, retail, manufacturing and personal-location data globally, they highlight some projections that make us conclude that this domains will have an enormous potential as future heavy users of this solution because of the great insights they can get from their customers in order to maximize their revenues through offer creatively and efficiency solutions that will revolutionize the customer experience.
The increasing volume and detail of information captured by enterprises, the rise of multimedia, social media and the Internet of Things (IoT) will fuel exponential growth in data for the foreseeable future. The use of big data will become a key basis of competition and growth for individual firms.
On the other hand, according to Goldman Sachs study2 projects that spending on cloud computing infrastructure and platforms will grow at 30% from 2013 to 2018 compared with the 5% growth for the overall enterprise IT. In the same line, Cisco is predicting that by 2018, 59% of the total cloud workloads will be Software as a Service (Saas) workload, up from 41% in 2013.
How significant were the personalities of the contenders to succeed Lenin in accounting for Stalin's defeat of his opponents in the years 1924-29?


Join KLJ Design Co. (Instagram: @kljdesignco/@kristieljen) at The Lemon Bowl DC for a relaxing and fun afternoon learning a beautiful new skill. In this workshop, attendees will learn the basics of brush lettering with watercolor, including how to work with the medium, how to make basic strokes, and simple troubleshooting techniques. Attendees will leave the workshop with a motivational quote, painted in their own style and colors.


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Q: Verifying that "being isomorphic" is an equivalence relation on the objects of a category On page 7 of Topology: A Categorical Approach by Bradley, Bryson and Terilla I am asked to verify what I've written in the title of this post.
My attempt:
Reflexivity:
The isomorphism from $X$ to $X$ is $\text{id}_X$, since $\text{id}_X$ is its own inverse. Therefore $X \cong X$.
Symmetry:
If $X \cong Y$ that means there is an invertible morphism $f \colon X \to Y$. Say its inverse is $g \colon Y \to X$. When we show that $g$ is the left and right inverse of $f$, we are showing that $f$ is the right and left inverse of $g$ (respectively), so that $f$ is the inverse morphism of $g$ and therefore $Y \cong X$.
Transitivity:
Suppose we have objects $X, Y$ and $Z$ such that $X \cong Y$ and $Y \cong Z$. There are thus invertible morphisms $f \colon X \to Y$ and $g \colon Y \to Z$. By the composition axiom of categories, we know that $gf \colon X \to Z$ is a morphism. We want to show that $gf$ is invertible, hence $X \cong Z$.
We can compose the inverse morphisms $f^{-1} \colon Y \to X$ and $g^{-1} \colon Z \to Y$ to get $f^{-1}g^{-1} \colon Z \to X$. Composing $f^{-1}g^{-1}$ with $gf$, we get
\begin{align*}
(f^{-1}g^{-1})(gf) &= f^{-1}(g^{-1}g)f\\
&= f^{-1}\text{id}_Y f\\
&= f^{-1}f\\
&= \text{id}_X,
\end{align*}
and similarly on the right side, hence $X \cong Z$ as desired.
Question:
Do I need to prove some kind of generalized associativity to justify the manipulations I used to prove transitivity? The category axiom for associativity only says that $f(gh) = (fg)h$ for suitably defined morphisms.
I appreciate any help.


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Q: Delete a directory from the Windows command line even if it's been opened in a program I want to delete a directory with files owned by other processes in Windows 7. Other answers say to find the process that is accessing it which I do not want to do.
I tried using PowerShell and couldn't even get past deleting non-empty directories without having to resort to writing a script which I will never ever do.
I tried using the Bash command rm -rf ./directory and I got the error The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process
I tried import shutil \ shutil.rmtree('./directory') in Python and got the same error.
The other process can die, I don't care. It's my file and I'm an administrator. How do I say "I really mean it, I don't care about the consequences, just do what I ask, computer, for the love of all that is good."
Clarification: I do not care and do not want to care which other process is accessing the files. I also would like to use the command line if possible.


There's been a new wave of rising coffee culture in Jakarta over the past few years – not that we're complaining. Everywhere you look there's a new specialty cafe popping up. Because there are just so many fantastic coffee shops to go around, we're dividing them up by neighbourhood this time. Here we put the spotlight on family-friendly Kemang.
Kommunal 88 is a cafe-market serving excellent Caswell's coffee, alongside freshly baked goods prepared in-house every day. We're quite particular to their fantastic madeleines and almond croissant. This popular brunch spot also tries to be eco-friendly when it comes to takeaway coffee, providing customers with their signature reusable to-go tumbler instead of the usual cardboard cups. Take the tumbler back on your next visit for a discounted refill.
Kommunal 88. Jl. Ampera Raya 5-6. Follow @kommunal88 on Instagram.
Having graduated from the row of charming shop huts that dot the road to Hero Kemang, Goni has now moved to a new home in a bigger location on Kemang Timur. The owners, having spent time in Sydney perfecting their craft, are huge advocates for the Indonesian specialty coffee industry. There's no surprise then that Goni's delicious brews are all made of locally sourced beans from Indonesia's best roasters.
Goni Coffee. Jl. Kemang Timur Raya No. 78CD. Mon – Sat: 7am to 6pm. Sun: 8am to 6pm. Follow @gonicoffee on Instagram.
The Kommunal 88 to-go tumbler. Photo: Courtesy of @kommunal88 via Instagram.
The founders of Goni Coffee. Photo: Courtesy of @gonicoffee via Instagram.
Coffee at Goni Coffee. Photo: Courtesy of @gonicoffee via Instagram.
Beans from Kedai Kopi 89. Photo: Courtesy of @kedaikopi89 via Instagram.
Coffee at Headline Espresso and Brewbar. Photo: Courtesy of @headlinecoffee via Instagram.
Having the luck of being situated within the home decor store Decorous, Kedai Kopi 89's cosy interiors are an Insta-foodie's dream. Colorful, funky and eclectic, you could spend hours just admiring the atmosphere. The cafe specializes in single origin Indonesian brews – served black and piping hot. There are espresso-based drinks for those who prefer it, but we recommend ordering a traditional black with a side of kaya toast.
Kedai Kopi 89. Jl. Kemang Raya No. 89, South Jakarta. Follow @kedaikopi89 on Instagram.
Billing themselves as a communal brewing space, Ruang Seduh is a perfect haven for the dedicated coffee fan. Patrons of Ruang Seduh are guided through the steps of crafting their desired coffee beverage – the first being selecting between specialty beans or any espresso-based drink of choice. Baristas are on stand-by to instruct and educate guests so that they can learn a thing or two while getting their caffeine-fix. Which makes that beautiful cup of java so much more satisfying, we think.
Ruang Seduh. Jl. Kemang Raya 8B, South Jakarta. Open everyday from 8am to 9pm. Follow @ruangseduh on Instagram.
A tiny little coffee-house nestled in the Kemang Utara area, Headline Espresso and Brewbar is one of those spots that you'll definitely miss if you're not paying attention. This hidden cafe serves excellent coffee, which is a given since its owner is one of the World Barista Championship judges. A selection of edibles are also on the menu to satiate any small cravings, but the compact space is too small of a venue to stay in for too long. A great place to grab a quick coffee nonetheless.
Headline Espresso and Brewbar. Jl. Kemang Utara Raya No. 50, South Jakarta. Open everyday from 8am to 10pm. Follow @headlinecoffee on Instagram.


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The Dublin Brigade IRA 1917-1921
John_Dorney 31 August, 2016 Irish History, The Irish War of Independence
Two Clare IRA Volunteers demonstrate the Thompson submachine gun, it was first used in action in Dublin in 1921.
The evolution of the Irish Volunteers in Dublin during the Irish War of Independence. By John Dorney.
After the Easter Rising of 1916, the Irish Volunteer movement in Dublin looked dead and buried, but by 1921 the Volunteers, now renamed the Irish Republican Army or IRA, had built a new formidable urban guerrilla organisation to fight the British presence in the Irish capital.
Up to 90 Volunteers of the Dublin Brigade and Citizen Army men lost their lives as a result the 1916 Rising and a further 1,000 were interned [1] , leaving only a shadow organisation left in Dublin. This might have been the end of the Volunteers in Dublin, had the British policy of repression been pushed through to its logical conclusion – the Volunteers interned serving out their long sentences of penal servitude. The organisation also lost most of its weapons.
The Dublin Brigade might have been finished after the failure of the Easter Rising, but British leniency allowed them to regroup in 1917.
But in fact the British response swung erratically from harshness to lenience. Most of the rank and file Volunteers were released in December 1916 and even the surviving leadership of 1916 were released in mid 1917.
Not all of the Rising veterans remained active after their release, but the Dublin Brigade was rebuilt in 1917 and 1918. The Dublin Brigade, like most Volunteer units around the country, received an influx of thousands of new recruits as it prepared to resist conscription, which the British government extended to Ireland in April 1918. Dublin Volunteers helped to marshal a General strike against conscription in April 1918 and were also involved in activities such as seizing food set to be exported to Britain and distributing it among the Dublin poor.[2] [3]
British troops escort prisoners in Dublin, 1916.
In the general election of December 1918, the Dublin Volunteers campaigned for Sinn Fein, stewarded their rallies and on occasion rioted with the families of those whose relatives were in the British Army. Sinn Fein won the election, not only in Dublin in all of Ireland and declared Irish independence and the formation of its own Parliament, the Dail.
On January 19, 1919, the Dail, met for the first time in Dublin's Mansion House, and declared Irish Independence. Out of 75 TDs, 27 could not attend, however, being imprisoned.
On the same day in Tipperary Volunteers shot dead, in shootings unauthorised by the Volunteer command, two RIC constables were shot dead at Soloheadbeg in County Tipperary. Together the events, though unconnected, signalled the beginning of a new insurrection against British rule in Ireland.
Dublin Volunteers such as Todd Andrews Rathfarnham Company of the Dublin Brigade 4th Battalion, like all IRA Volunteers around the country, took an Oath of Allegiance to Dail Eireann and the Republic in the autumn of 1919, in his case in Ballyboden library.[4] The oath administered by GHQ went, 'I will support and defend the Irish Republic and the Government of Ireland, which is Dail Eireann, against all enemies, foreign and domestic'.[5] From this point onwards they began to refer to themselves by a new name, the Irish Republican Army or IRA.
Four members of The Squad, left to right: Michael McDonnell, Tim Keogh, Vinny Byrne, Paddy Daly and Jim Slattery, Byrne and daly were prominent in the Civil War, Daly may have been behind the killing of prisoners in Kerry.
Guerrilla war did not come immediately to Dublin however. Though 1919 saw some shootings in the city, it was not until mid 1920 that something akin to a war situation developed in Dublin.
The resumption of political violence began with Michael Collins' formation of a shooting 'Squad' – fulltime paid operatives – in his Intelligence Department to eliminate Detectives of the Dublin Metropolitan Police. This was initially a reactive measure –a response to mass arrests of Sinn Fein activists in 1918-19.
The Squad according to one of its founder members, James Slattery, was formed on the 30th of July 1919 at a meeting on North Great George's Street.
Dick McKee, the head of the Dublin Brigade, asked selected men, mostly from the north inner city second battalion if they had objections to shooting enemy agents. Many did. Their notion of warfare was akin to the 'stand up fight' of 1916, not clandestine assassination. But at least 6 men at the initial meeting did accept the task of premeditated targeted killing.[6]
The Squad the IRA Intelligence assassination unit was not formally part of the Dublin Brigade.
The Squad had an anomalous place within the IRA, being part of no recognised unit, independent even of the Dublin Brigade and answerable only to Collins himself as Director of Intelligence. In the Military Pension files it is described as the 'GHQ Active Service Unit'.
The Squad started out with about 6 men and later grew to 12 men, hence the popular nickname, 'The Twelve Apostles' and had no more than 21 members by the time of the Truce in July 1921. The Intelligence Department had according to one founding member, Frank Thornton, only 6 men in 1919, though this also expanded considerably during the armed conflict.[7]. The numbers serving in Inteligence are hard to pin down exactly but together the Squad and Intelligence Department seem to have numbered about 50 men by the Truce.[8]
The Intelligence Department assembled information on targets, and according to Bernard Byrne, 'came along to point out targets'. James Slattery recalled that orders for 'jobs' were given by Intelligence officers Liam Tobin and Tom Cullen and occasionally from Collins himself[9]. In practice though, the two units tended to bleed into each other. Squad men occasionally found targets for themselves.
On one occasion for instance, Tom Keogh and Bernard Byrne happened across a British Intelligence officer, Captain Cecil, 'by chance', followed him back to his hotel room on Wicklow Street and shot him beside his wife.[10] Conversely Intelligence men often went on 'jobs' themselves, not only pointing out the target but frequently pulling the trigger too.[11].
Over them all was 'the Big Fella', Michael Collins. Although Collins in theory held the rank only of Director of Intelligence in the IRA, everyone knew that in practice, he was the boss. His authority was based not on his official rank but on his personal charisma and this was true especially over his authority over the Intelligence Department and the Squad.
An Army inquiry in 1924 asked Charles Russell, a First World War veteran, junior IRA officer as of 1921 and later National Army Colonel, about Collins special position. Was Collins, the Inquiry asked, subject to Richard Mulcahy the IRA Chief of Staff? 'No', Russell replied, 'he was Director of Intelligence, Commander in Chief and "the man"…. He was everything, he was General Collins, anyone knows that'. 'He was chief man regardless of his position as D.I.'.[12]
The Intelligence Department and Squad were Collins' men alone, according to Charles Russell; 'if certain things that were carried out were done through ordinary Army channels they might not be carried out so well… they [Collins' men] were if you like, the shock troops'.[13]
The Squad who were directly responsible to Michael Collins, carried out at least 25 assassinations in Dublin.
After a 'job' or a 'plugging' as the Squad came to call killings, they would report to Collins personally at Kirwan's Bar or as Frank Thornton remembered, Devlin's Pub on Parnell Street.[14] By the Truce of July 1921 they had killed at least 25 people. Collins' targeting was selective but startlingly ruthless.
A list later compiled by Todd Andrews of those 'executed' on the orders of IRA Intelligence in Dublin lists 10 civilians killed by the Squad, including 6 in June 1921 alone, along with one 'unknown man', 13 DMP and RIC detectives, two 'agents' and one British Army officer. The civilians were mostly alleged informers but some like Allan Bell was a Magistrate investigating the 'Dail Loan' and Frank Brooke was a railway magnate advising the British Army on moving troops by train.[15]
Andrews' figure of 25 dead at IRA Intelligence's hands in Dublin is certainly an underestimate of the Squad's tally, as he did not include the most spectacular assassination attack. This occurred in the early morning of November 21st, 1920 – later christened Bloody Sunday – when the Squad and Intelligence officers, along with several dozen gunmen from the Dublin Brigade were sent to over 20 addresses in central Dublin to kill British Intelligence officers and their informants – from a list compiled by Collins and the Intelligence Department.
Some of the targets were not in, others escaped but by daybreak 14 people had been shot dead; eight of them were British officers, of whom six were confirmed Intelligence agents, two Auxiliaries, the rest either bystanders or civilian informers [16]. They were killed mostly in their beds. In retaliation the Crown forces – RIC and Auxiliary police took the lead – opened fire on Gaelic football match at Croke Park, killing another 14 civilians. Three Republicans including Dick McKee, commander of the Dublin Brigade were also arrested and killed by Auxiliaries that night in Dublin Castle.[17]
The up close killing that the Intelligence Department and the Squad were asked to carry out and the constant stress of their battle of wits against British Intelligence took its toll on them. According to Charles Russell, 'these men carried out the most objectionable work side of pre-Truce [War of Independence] operations' which 'left them anything but normal'. 'If shell shock existed in the IRA prior to the Truce, the place to look for it was among these men'.[18]
Liam Tobin, the head of the Intelligence Department 'looked like a man who had seen the inside of hell'.[19] Mick McDonnell, the original commander of the Squad was sent to California to recuperate in January 1921, 'for health reasons', though it is not clear if these were physical or psychological.[20] He was replaced first by James Slattery and then Paddy O'Daly.
It is hardly surprising, given that he was surrounded by a ruthless assassination unit, responsible to him alone, that Michael Collins's position created tension with other leaders of the movement. So, to a lesser extent, did the authority of the IRA Chief of Staff Richard Mulcahy, who directed much of the IRA guerrilla campaign.
Both men had a difficult relationship with Cathal Brugha the Dail's Minister for Defence. Brugha was unhappy with what he perceived as Collins' personal authority –far beyond his official role of Director of Intelligence – over the IRA.
In fact on a number of occasions Brugha flexed his muscles and intervened to veto or modify a number of IRA operations in Dublin. Most notably on Bloody Sunday itself, Brugha reduced Collins 'hit list' from over 50 names down to 35 on the grounds that there was not enough evidence against some of those marker for death.[21]
The Dublin Brigade
The Dublin Brigade of the IRA was divided into four main battalions, 1 and 2 north of the river Liffey (First Battalion to the west of O'Connell Street and Second to the East), 3 and 4 south of it (Third Battalion in the inner city and Fourth in the more suburban area to the west and south). These formations tallied so closely with the Dublin Metropolitan Police Divisions, that it seems almost certain they were originally based on them[23]. Fifth Battalion was engineers and Sixth Battalion covered south county Dublin and neighbouring Wicklow.
The commander of the Dublin Brigade was Dick McKee, who was killed by Auxiliaries in Dublin Castle in revenge for the mass killing of British agents on Bloody Sunday in November 1920. He was replaced by Oscar Traynor, a veteran of the1916 Rising and Vice Commandant of Second Battalion.
The numbers in the Dublin Brigade fluctuated from about 2,000 in 1916 to a much larger number of temporary recruits in the conscription crisis of 1918, down to about 2,100 Volunteers in 1920-1921, though the active total was much smaller[24]. Generally speaking the rank and file Volunteers in Dublin came from a specific social stratum – the Catholic skilled working class and lower middle class.
Social Profile of the Dublin Volunteers
Volunteers from Dublude Bde 6 Battalion at training Camp at Barnaculla. (Courtesy of Irish Volunteers website).
Todd Andrews remarked that in his Company of 4th Battalion, 'the men were men of no property. Except for what little furniture the few married men had accumulated … But they were all in regular employment even if their jobs were menial, very badly paid and insecure. None of them were destitute. They had a minimum of food, clothing and shelter.[25]
Andrews himself spent his early years in Dublin's tenements but his father and mother both ran their own small businesses meaning that by the time he joined the Volunteers in 1917 his family lived a comfortable life in suburban Terenure.
Though about a third of Dublin city's 320,000 inhabitants lived in the slums and made a meagre and erratic living from unskilled labour, they were under-represented in the IRA. A study of 507 Dublin Volunteers found that 46% of them were skilled workers while only 23% were unskilled, with shop and clerical workers making up most of the remainder.[26]
The average Dublin Volunteers was a skilled worker and the average Dublin IRA officer was clerical worker.
Apart from the greater tendency to the very poor to serve in the British Army (much more regular payers than the IRA), this can probably explained by the fact that Volunteers had to pay a subscription of 3d a week to the organisation to pay for weapons and other costs. Dublin's lumpen proletariat by and large did not have this much disposable income.
It may not be a coincidence that the fulltime Volunteers of the IRA in Dublin, in the Squad, the Intelligence Department, the Active Service Unit (ASU) and the Republican Police (together only about 200 men), were paid at the rate of a skilled worker, at about £4 per week. This was more than twice the average labourers' wage which was 16-18s for a 48 hour week. [27]
A little higher up in the IRA, those who attained the rank of officer were generally of the lower rungs of the middle class. A study of 86 Dublin IRA officers found the largest single class were shop or clerical workers.[28] Frank Henderson for instance, commander of the Second Battalion was a clerk. Joseph O'Connor of the Third (nicknamed 'Holy Joe') worked as a civil servant in Dublin Corporation, Frank Thornton the Intelligence Officer worked for the New Ireland insurance firm[29].
For this reason, part of the IRA psychological make up was a feeling that they represented the 'common people' of Ireland. Not the 'Imperialist' or 'Castle Catholic' upper class, nor the 'rabble' that joined the British Army.
Todd Andrews remarked that the average Dublin Volunteer was a 'Christian Brothers' boy. It was rare to meet any 'Diocesan boys' – from the elite Catholic fee-paying schools (though there were some) and he hardly ever met a Protestant in the IRA, though again there were a handful. Andrews noted that IRA prisoners –he himself was interned from early 1921 – ritually said the rosary together as act of defiance.[30]
Another interesting demographic feature of the Dublin IRA is how many of its Volunteers were university students – Kevin Barry, hanged in November 1920 was a medical student at the 'National' or Catholic University College Dublin (UCD), as was Frank Flood, an ASU man hanged in March 1921, as were IRA officers Ernie O'Malley, Todd Andrews and Andy Cooney. At a time when only a small proportion of the population typically made it to third level education, it seems certain that university students too were over-represented in the Dublin IRA.
Finally, a significant number of Dublin IRA Volunteers were not originally from Dublin at all. Many, including all the above named university students apart from Andrews and Flood, were originally from elsewhere – Barry was from Carlow, O'Malley was born in Mayo, Cooney was from Nenagh County Tipperary. Analysis of the IRA men killed in Dublin from 1916 to 1921 indicates that about 20-30% of Republican fighters in Dublin were not natives of the city, but like many of the city's inhabitants, migrants from the rest of Ireland. [31]
Arms and ambushes
The Custom House on fire after an IRA raid in May 1921.
Richard Mulcahy the IRA Chief of Staff wrote to embattled rural guerrilla commanders in 1921 that 'Dublin is by far the most important military area in Ireland… The grip of our forces in Dublin must be maintained at all costs… no victories in distant provincial areas have any value if Dublin is lost in as military sense'.[22]
There were never even nearly enough weapons to arm all the young men who belonged to the Dublin Brigade. The British Army thought that even after the Truce when the IRA's armament had improved somewhat, only about 10% of the 'rebels' in Dublin had access to rifles, 25% to revolvers and 35% to 'bombs'. Given that most rifles in Dublin were sent to rural areas in mid 1920 this was probably an overestimate of the Dublin Brigade's armament[32]
Until after Bloody Sunday, most IRA actions in Dublin were arms raids – as was for instance the raid in North King Street in which two British soldiers were killed and for which Kevin Barry was hanged. But most arms raids did not involve overt violence. Todd Andrews' Company raided the local Big House for arms. Joe O'Connor's Third Battalion bought and stole hundreds of rifles out of Wellington Barracks along the Grand Canal with the complicity of the Barracks Quartermaster.[33]
Up to late 1920, most of the Brigade's activities were arms raids. Thereafter they concentrated on hit and run ambushes.
It was not until late December 1920 that IRA GHQ really committed the Dublin Brigade, as opposed to the Squad and Intelligence Department, to the fight. What the young men in the companies were expected to do, especially from late 1920 on, was to meet weekly for 'parades', where they would collect arms from a 'dump' and to 'patrol' their company areas. If and when they encountered British forces they were to attack them and make a quick getaway.
A Auxiliary patrol dismounts amid an unruly crowd in Dublin, 1921.
A typical IRA party on a 'job' in Dublin in 1921 carried improvised grenades and handguns only. [34]
The close presence of so many British troops and paramilitary police meant that prolonged fire-fights in urban situations were suicide for the IRA and making a quick getaway (and mingling into civilian crowds) was more important than firepower.
After the 'job' the revolvers and grenades were again hidden in a dump. Rank and file IRA Volunteers, when not 'on patrol' did not routinely carry weapons on the streets.
'Factories' were set up particularly in urban areas to manufacture grenades. In Dublin one clandestine workshop was churning out up to 1,000 improvised grenades per week by late 1920.[35] These were not always the most reliable weapons however. Often they did not explode and sometimes they exploded in the hands of the thrower.
The 'patrol actions' accounted for most IRA operations in Dublin. In the beginning, in early 1921 these were amateurish in the extreme. Todd Andrews recalled that in January 1921 his 4th Battalion Company had its first taste of action at Kenilworth Square; 'We heard a lorry approaching from Terenure. We pulled our 'dogs' (we each had 45 Webley [revolvers]). It [the lorry] was packed with soldiers. They were all singing a popular song of the time 'I'm forever blowing bubbles,' We immediately opened fire, with Kane shouting, 'we'll give you f_ing bubbles'. The soldiers returned fire and the lorry accelerated just as [our men] threw their bombs at it'. Two soldiers were wounded.[36]
The IRA company ambushes evolved into something considerably more deadly in the coming months however. In March 1921 for instance, three British soldiers were killed and five wounded in a grenade attack on Wexford Street – a stretch leading from city centre to Portobello Barracks known as the 'Dardanelles' such was the frequency of ambushes on it.[37] The IRA in Dublin like all guerrillas, went through 'combat evolution', in other words, those who were reckless or careless were killed or captured. Those who remained learnt competence.
Mulcahy the Chief of Staff acknowledged the most active Battalions in Dublin were the Second and Third, 'Most attacks are done by Battalions 2 and 3', '1 and 4 are being worked up'. He advised in the spring of 1921, cutting transport, sniping and killing informers, or as he put it an 'anti-tout offensive'. He also suggested that Volunteers rely on hand guns more than grenades in ambushes. [38]
The ASU
IRA prisoners taken after the Custom House raid
For more targeted attacks the Brigade set up an Active Service Unit (ASU) in December 1920. Like the Squad, these were fulltime, paid Volunteers. The aim was to recruit 100 men to the ASU but in fact there were closer to 50, divided into four sections along the lines of the Dublin Brigade Battalions. Unlike normal Volunteers they carried arms at all times.
One young recruit was Padraig O'Connor, a railway worker from county Kildare, a member of Fourth Battalion. Like the Squad, he recalled, they were given orders for 'jobs' by the Intelligence Department.
One of the ASU's first operations ended in disaster however, when an attempted ambush in Drumcondra saw an entire section captured, six of whom were executed in March 1921. [39]
The Dublin Active Service Unit comprised about 50 men split into four sections. they were paid and carried arms at all times.
On the rare occasions where the IRA in Dublin were forced to stand and fight, their hand guns and 'bombs' were no match for British rifles and machine guns, especially when combined with armoured vehicles. One such occasion was the Great Brunswick (now Pearse) Street ambush in March 1921 when a patrol of Auxiliaries raided a Third Battalion base just as the Company patrol had returned. In five minutes of firing, seven people were killed, two men on both sides and three civilians. Two IRA men were captured, and another four wounded. Joe O'Connor remarked that it showed the dangers of Volunteers disobeying his explicit instructions to avoid prolonged engagements.[40]
An even worse setback was the IRA operation to burn the Custom House (centre of local government) in May 1921. Insisted on by Eamon de Valera, President of the Republic, the operation was a disaster especially for the Second Battalion. Out of over 120 Volunteers committed to the operation, none was armed with anything heavier than a pistol and improvised grenade – some had only a revolver and six rounds. When the building was surrounded by heavily armed Auxiliaries and British soldiers, five guerrillas were killed and 70-80 captured with only four Auxiliaries injured.[41]
Such were the numbers captured that the Squad and the Dublin ASU had to be amalgamated afterwards into a new formation – the Dublin Guards under Paddy O'Daly.
Though the IRA in Dublin was in general kept up under tighter control than units elsewhere and was therefore less free to pursue private vendettas, they certainly became more ruthless as the clandestine war went on. Only 2 civilians were killed as informers in Dublin until early 1921 but in the following six months over a dozen were shot in quick succession, mostly in May and June. At least 9 of these men were ex-servicemen and three were Protestants.[42]
By the summer of 1921 and the Truce of July 11, the British Army thought they were getting on top of the IRA in Dublin, but the guerrillas were far from finished in Dublin by that date.
By the end, with the British executing their fighters both officially and unofficially after capture, IRA units attacked British soldiers whenever they had the opportunity, whether they were on duty or not. A cricket game at Trinity College for instance was shot up in June 1921 because soldiers were playing; one woman spectator was killed. A mass assassination attack (a second 'Bloody Sunday') was planned on British Intelligence officers on the shopping thoroughfare Grafton Street in the summer of 1921 but never came off.
By the summer of 1921 and the Truce of July 11, the British Army thought they were getting on top of the IRA in the city; many had been arrested and interned. The guerrillas however were far from finished in Dublin by that date. There was no shortage of new recruits and the pace of attacks slackened only a little, even after the disaster of the Customs House attack. The Dublin Brigade recorded 67 attacks in the city in April 1921, 103 in May and 92 in June.[43] Ammunition was certainly a problem, in some cases IRA 'factories' in the city were put to work at the risky task of converting .303 rifle ammunition into .45 revolver bullets.[44]
However the IRA was also adapting. The first batches of Thompson submachine guns had arrived in the city and were used in several ambushes in Dublin in June 1921. There was also a turn towards avoiding combat altogether and destroying British war infrastructure. A raid on the Military transport depot in June 1921 destroyed 40 vehicles including five new British armoured cars, without any shooting taking place.[45] Whether the IRA was on the verge of collapse, particularly in Dublin or whether it was in a position to keep going later became a bitterly contested point.
When the Truce with the British was agreed for July 11, 1921, the initial reaction among the IRA in Dublin was one of relief. Todd Andrews, who had been interned since January 1921 escaped from a military camp at Newbridge and made his way back to the city with the aid of sympathisers in Kildare. Back in south Dublin he found that he and his comrades were suddenly popular. The Squad and ASU men established a training camp in the remote Glenasmole valley in the Dublin Mountains.
A British Army report in October 1921 on the possibility of the resumption of hostilities reported that IRA, 'in a desperate situation before the Truce', with' their ASUs an columns being chased and harried from pillar to post, defeated and broken up', was now 'a more formidable organisation'. They reported that the IRA was recruiting ex-soldiers to help with training was now better armed, including with the Thompson sub machine gun and also had far more rifles with which to carry out sniping attacks.[46]
Anti-Treaty IRA fighters in Dublin, June 1922.
Some 300 people died violently in Dublin between January 1919 and July 11th 1921 and hundreds more had been wounded.[47]
The IRA counted 54 of their Volunteers killed in Dublin[48] and according to British figures, another 70 guerrillas at least were wounded in action and over 1,400 arrested and imprisoned.[49]
The British military admitted their losses in the city as 25 soldiers killed and 68 wounded, but a careful modern count found 35 killed by the IRA in the city with another 42 non-combat deaths due to firearms or other accidents, 3 murders of fellow soldiers and 12 suicides. [50]
Over 300 people were killed in Dublin in political violence between 1919 and July 1921. Due to the Truce there was no conclusive military result.
Some 40 policemen were killed in Dublin by IRA action, including 8 DMP officers, mostly detectives killed by the Squad, 11 Auxiliaries and 22 RIC or Black and Tans officers. In total, therefore about 75 Crown forces were killed in action in Dublin in 1919-21, a number that rises to about 110 once accidental deaths are included.[51] This would indicate around 150 civilian fatalities in the city, once combatants are subtracted from Eunan O'Halpin's figures. [52]
Did the Dublin IRA win their war? Richard Mulcahy claimed that the Dublin IRA had, 'pinned 1/6th of English armed forces [in Ireland] in the city without too much effort'.[53] The truth was though that in Dublin and elsewhere, the Irish War of Independence had no military conclusion. It was ended by a political compromise before a military decision was reached.
Disputes over the Anglo Irish Treaty, signed on December 6 1921 provoked a split in the Dublin Brigade and throughout the IRA. By and large, the Squad and the ASU in in Dublin sided with Michael Collins and the pro-Treaty side, while the majority of the Dublin Brigade's battalions went anti-Treaty. It took a civil war between them before the Irish revolutionary period came to an end.
[1] 62 insurgents were killed in the fighting and between those who subsequently executed in the city (14) and those during or as a result of their imprisonment, (16 more either from wounds of sickness) the total of dead in the Dublin Brigade of the Volunteers rose to 90 (counting the Citizen Army men as Volunteers and also Thomas Ashe who died after force feeding on hunger strike in 1917)The Last Post pp 93-98
[2] Yeates City in Wartime pp 227, 234-236,
[3] Laurence Nugent WS 907
[4] Andrews, Dublin Made Me, p120
[5] IRA General Orders, Mulcahy Papers UCD P7/A/45
[6] James Slattery BMH Statement WS445
[7] Joe Leonard's BMH statement says that by the end of the War of Independence the Squad was up to 21 members, Frank Thornton in his BMH Statement lists six men in the original Intelligence Department in 1919, though this later expanded considerably.
[8] The Military Pensions of 1924 list 17 men as having been Squad members at one time or another ten at least as members of Collins' Intelligence Department, but these are understatements. Military Service Pensions Collection, online at Ton Ennis for example is named James Slattery as being a founder member of the Squad but this is not stated in his pension file.
[9] See James Slattery, Bernard Byrne BMH Statements
[10] Bernard Byrne BMH
[11] Ibid. James Slattery recalled that Intelligence officers Frank Thornton and Joe Dolan were given the job of killing an RIC Sergeant on Capel Street in October 1920 for instance, while Bernard Byrne recalled that Intelligence officer Frank Bolster was one of the gunmen who shot 2 RIC officers on Parliament Street in February 1921. Vinny Byrne lists Bolster, usually counted as an Intelligence officer, as a Squad member. Vincent Byrne BMH
[12] Charles Russell Testimony to Army Inquiry, 1924,Mulcahy Papers UCD P7/C/29
[13] Ibid. P/7/C/28
[15] Andrews Papers UCD, P91/87
[16] Jane Leonard, 'English Dogs or Poor Devils?'The Dead of Bloody Sunday Morning, in Terror in Ireland, p130
[17] See Michael Hopkinson, The Irish War of Independence, p 89-90,
[18] Russell Testimony to Army Inquiry, Mulcahy Ppaers UCD P/7/C/20
[19] Cited in Anne Dolan, 'Ending War in a Sportsmanlike Manner', in Thomas Hachey Ed. Turning Points in Twentieth Century Irish History., p35-36
[20] Michael McDonnell, Pension File
[21] T Ryle Dwyer the Squad, p190
[22] 'War Overview, Richard Mulcahy to IRA Commanders, 4/3/1921, Mulcahy Papers UCD P7/A/47
[23] Eamon Broy in his BMH statement outlines the 6 DMP Divisions in Dublin. They correspond very closely with the IRA Battalions. Two north of the river Liffey, to south of it and G Division, the Detectives performing an analgous role to the Squad and IRA Intelligence.
[24]James Durney, 'How Aungier/ Camden Street became known as the Dardanelles', The Irish Sword, Summer 2010 No. 108 Vol. XXVII p245
[25] Andrews, Dublin Made Me, p113
[26] Hart, Peter, The IRA at War p119
[27] For labourers' wages Yeates, a city in Wartime P48 For IRA wages, see Maire Comerford Papers UCD
[28] Hart, IRA at War, p119
[29] Frank Thornton BMH
[30] Andrews, Dublin Made Me, p134-135
[31]Out of the 80 Volunteers killed or executed in Dublin in the Rising of 1916, 27 were from outside the city (including 2 from Britain) and out of 54 IRA Volunteers killed in Dublin from 1919-21, 16 were from other parts of Ireland The Last Post p93-130
[32] Sheehan, Fighting for Dublin p126
[33] Andrews, Dublin Made Me, p121 Joseph O'Connor BMH
[34] Joost Augusteijn, From Public Defiance to Guerrilla Warfare, p165
[37] James Durney, 'How Aungier/ Camden Street became known as the Dardanelles', The Irish Sword, Summer 2010 No. 108 Vol. XXVII p249
[38] Mulcahy Papers UCD P7/A/47
[39] O'Connor, Sleep Soldier Sleep, p33-34
[40] Great Brunswick St is no Pearse St. For the ambush see WH Kautt, Ambushes and Armour, The Irish Rebellion 1919-1921, p207-208, O'Connor BMH for his reaction.
[41] See Today in Irish History, the Raid on the Customs House.
[42] Joost Augusteijn counted 15 informers killed in Dublin, Padraig Og O Ruairc counts 13, of whom 9 were former soldiers or sailors, see Truce p101-102.
[43] Joost Augusteijn, Public Defiance to Guerrilla Warfare, p 173
[44] Maire Comerford Papers UCD LA/18
[45] Charles Townshend, The Republic, The Fight for Irish Independence, p290
[46] In Mulcahy Papers, P7A/48
[47] The figure is from Eunan O'Halpin's 'Counting Terror' in Fitzpatrick Ed. 'Terror in Ireland' is 309 killed in Dublin. Though this may overestimate violence in Dublin a little as it includes those wounded elsewhere who died in hospital in the city. The death toll included at least 58 IRA members (per the Last Post), 25 British Army soldiers killed in action ( Per their report re-published in Wiliam Sheehan, Fighting for Dublin, p130 though more died there due to accidents, illness or suicide) and about 40 police, which would indicate well over 150 civilian fatalities in the city.
[48] See the Last Post
[49] Sheehan, Fighting for Dublin, p129-130
[50] Sheehan, Fighting for Dublin, p129-130 and the Cairo Gang website, here http://www.cairogang.com/soldiers-killed/list-1921.html
[51] Abbot, Police Casualties in Ireland It does not seem reasonable as some studies do, to include as conflict related casualties those soldiers, guerrillas or civilians who died of illness such as the 'Spanish flu' in 1918-19, which killed at least 2,600 people in Dublin alone. Padraig Yeates A City in Wartime p270-273
[52] Sheehan, Fighting for Dublin, p130
[53] Mulcahy Papers UCD, P7/A/47
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26 Responses to "The Dublin Brigade IRA 1917-1921"
Helmer Aslaksen says:
Excellent article! But the first meeting was on 21 Jan 1919, not 19 Jan 1919. It is not true that "Out of 75 TDs, 27 could not attend, however, being imprisoned." There are a lot of confusing figures about attendance at the first Dáil. Many claim that 27 were present, but that includes counting Eoin MacNeill twice, since he was elected for two constituencies. The most reliable list seems to be the one on http://theirishrising.blogspot.no/2010/07/first-dail.html (except that it claims that there were three, not four SF TD's that were elected to two constituencies).
I believe that out of a total of 105, 26 were present (27 if counting Eoin MacNeill twice), 33 were in prison (35 if counting Dev and Griffith twice), 3 were on the run (4 counting Mellows twice), 2 were uncertain, 5 were absent (including Collins and Boland who were preparing to get Dev out of jail), and 32 Unionists and Parliamentary.
And as I pointed out earlier, you exclude the mortally wounded from the morning of Bloody Sunday, but include the mortally wounded from Croke Park. I prefer the figures of 15 and 14.
Policing Revolutionary Dublin 1919-1923 | The Irish Story says:
[…] O'Connor's Third Battalion of the IRA Dublin Brigade, based in the south inner city, was one such unit. With the DMP in O'Connor's words, […]
Conor McHenry says:
Hi John, just getting to read this article now. The first photo is of the "two yanks" who came to Ireland with the Thomson sub-machine guns to train the IRA in their use. One as far as I know was probably from Clare originally before he emigrated to the USA his name was Cronin, the other was a Kerry man named Allman. As to the "anti treaty IRA fighters" walking down Grafton St. The man on the left with his right hand inside his coat is my godfather Joe McHenry according to some. Also in that photo are Paddy Rigney and Tom Nolan all from the Four Courts Garrison.
John_Dorney says:
On point as ever Conor!Next time you're in Dublin, get in touch, it would be great to chat.
Yeah, same applies if you get to Brisbane !
Brian Nolan says:
29 September, 2018 at 7:51 pm
Good article. My Great Uncle on my grandmother's side, is Paddy Rigney, Intelligence Officer in the Dublin Brigade. Along with his brothers they were active in Dublin where they lived. One of the brothers escaped to USA as he had a price on his head and typically went on to driving whisky lorries during the Prohibition. I have done lots of research on Paddy who, when he died, still had a British bullet in his leg. A family legend and mentioned many times in history books. I found though, that oral history can often be wrong, so I have started compiling an account using newly released army records to verify what the family know, as the family do not know what he did in 1916 and the Civil War. Made more difficult living in England, but I try to return to Dublin to see family regularly.
Brian, Paddy Rigney, took the anti-Treaty side in the Civil War, one of very few Dublin ASU members to do so. He is mentioned a few times in my book the Civil War in Dublin. You'll find more information on him in the O'Malley papers and in the biography of Paddy O'Connor, Sleep Soldier Sleep, by Diarmuid O'Connor.
John.Thanks for information. From stories, it appears he disagreed with the treaty and refused to join the 'official IRA' when called to the ex-British barracks and may have been put on a hit list. My Rigney contact is very ill and when in Dublin last month I couldn't visit, so I am endeavouring to contact Paddy's sons and brother's children. I have a growing collection of books from visiting every bookshop I come across when in Ireland, where I can look at the index for my uncle's name. Just got a copy of Sleep Solider Sleep which I will been reading soon. Also have your book which I bought in Dublin a couple of weeks ago. I have a family picture of his brother in the USA in a typical gangster style suit and hat, plus many of Paddy later in life.
29 September, 2018 at 10:19 pm
Good luck with your search!
Pete Connolly says:
Just found this site after doing a search for the 4th Batallion. It seems my Grandad, James Harpur, and Paddy Rigney worked together. I've put my Grandad's memoirs up on my web site – http://www.peteconnolly.co.uk/. You can search for Paddy Rigney and you'll see they were involved in an engagement in Holles Street / Merrion Square, together with some others that my Grandad couldn't remember.
Michael R says:
1 February, 2021 at 2:03 am
Fascinating info .
Was it one of Paddy Rigney's brothers in USA ? Do you know his name .
You'll see my email address and would be delighted to chat with you this way
Kind regds
Ml R
eithna scannell says:
5 April, 2020 at 10:31 pm
I was wondering would you have any information on Joe mc Henery my mother was Mc Henery from Ballinderry Aghagallon Antrim.I know her grandfather was tom mc henry who had a brother Charles who moved to Brunwick St Dublin .
Ciaron mc carthy says:
It's John Nolan in the foreground nearest the camera, my mother's Father
Winnie Dunne says:
Hi Brian I've an autograph book belonging to my grandad while in kilmainham and there's a Thomas Patrick Rigney signature in it with his cell number
timmcgloughlin says:
4 March, 2019 at 10:36 am
Hi Winnie
I just spotted your note re a list of signatories from Wellington Barracks.
I am working on names fro pencil sketches done by my grandfather in Wellington (and other jails). Some have names and so do not…
Could you send me a copy of the autographs please.
My email is [email protected]
Hi Winnie, I cannot post pictures here but have all of my uncle's army records going back to 1916. He was Patrick Joseph Rigney. Arrested and imprisoned July 1921 in Mountjoy prison. Escaped November 1922. Arrested and imprisoned November 1922 in Newbridge Camp until December 1923. Spent 17 days on hunger strike here. The records are very detailed as he was claiming a pension which had been denied so had to provide evidence of all his active service.
Aaron Ó Maonaigh says:
12 March, 2019 at 10:12 pm
Could I ask if you would be so kind as to email me some photographs of Paddy? The author of 'Sleep soldier, sleep', Diarmuid, is the nephew of Pádraig Ua Conchubhair (aka Paddy O'Connor), Pádraig and Paddy Rigney were best friends, with the former tacitly facilitating the latter's escape from Jameson's Distillery after the fall of the Four Courts. Despite their differences the two men remained friends into their later years. Diarmuid even interviewed Paddy Rigney during the year prior to his death in 1990.
After his 'escape' Rigney travelled to south Dublin/north Wicklow where he commanded an active service unit which routinely attacked Free State positions in the county. He gave a lengthy interview, in several parts, to fellow veteran Ernie O'Malley which is deposited in UCD's archive department.
I can be contacted at the following address: [email protected]
Aaron Ó Maonaigh
Mike Cannady says:
9 June, 2020 at 6:18 pm
What's a good contact for you? I have an interesting story regarding Paddy Rigney that I'd love to run by you.
Gerry O REILLY says:
I also have an autograph book from my Grand father William Portley while hei was in mounjoy and Finns house 1921 – 1922
I will check the names
Gabbie Clinch says:
2 April, 2019 at 5:14 am
Hi there, I am researching my husband's family history. His grandfather was Commandant Martin Joseph O'Kelly, born in Ireland about 1897 and died in 1964. We believe he diffused bombs and was involved in the war of independence. I am struggling to find any real information on him. Can you perhaps give me some clues as to how I can find information please. Thank you, Gabbie Clinch
27 July, 2019 at 11:37 pm
Interesting.ive got the book The Story of a Success by ph pearse its hand signed by Sean kavanagh who was michael collins right hand man.
Lecture: John Dorney on the War of Independence in Dublin 1917-1921 – The Irish Story says:
1 October, 2020 at 3:36 pm
[…] For further context see, articles: The IRA Dublin Brigade, 1917-1921 […]
The iconic Grafton Street picture has my Grand Father John Nolan in the foreground d with package under arm, died clonskeagh hospital 67 I think, buried in Glasnevin, John Jnr or Jack his second eldest died last month aged 88
Today in Irish History, The Death of Bessie O'Brien, Dublin, 21 June 1921 – The Irish Story says:
[…] in 1939, Oscar Traynor, the officer commanding the Dublin Brigade during the most intense part of the conflict echoed those sentiments "The value of the work […]
My narrative has gone on paper hot from memory – UCD LIBRARY CULTURAL HERITAGE COLLECTIONS says:
8 July, 2021 at 6:25 am
[…] carried dispatches between the anti-treaty forces in the Four Courts and their comrades in the IRA Dublin Brigade. Comerford was arrested on several occasions for her involvement in anti-treaty activities and took […]
I'm trying to find a picture of my grandad Charles shelley he was in the Dublin brigade can anyone point me in the right direction


One of the nastiest and most harmful misconceptions about sexual assault survivors who speak out is that they are doing so for their own gain. Chessy Prout never wanted the spotlight. In fact, she remained anonymous during her well-publicized trial in which her perpetrator, Owen Labrie, was found guilty of sexual assault on St. Paul's campus as part of a "Senior Salute" ritual.
That's why, two years after her assault, Chessy decided to identify herself and fight. Chessy and her family took on St. Paul's: determined to change the harmful norms that led to her assault and hold them accountable to ensure other high school students do not have the same experience she did.
Chessy also started the #IHaveTheRightTo campaign in collaboration with PAVE: Promoting Awareness, Victim Empowerment. Since launching the #IHaveTheRightTo campaign on the Today Show, hundreds of young women have spoken out. At just 17 years old, Chessy has ignited a movement to let other girls know that they have the right to their bodies, respect, and a safe place to learn.


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Politics Report: Police Hold Grudge on Ward
by Scott Lewis and Andrew Keatts September 14, 2019 March 15, 2022
San Diego City Councilman Chris Ward / Photo by Adriana Heldiz
We got a hold of a summary of a poll this week that showed San Diego City Councilman Chris Ward performing well below an unknown candidate to us, Sarah Davis, in the race for Assembly District 78.
This isn't supposed to be a tough race for Ward. But more interesting than the poll is who paid for it: PORAC, the Peace Officers Research Association of California. It's kind of the Labor Council of police unions.
The group is not pleased with Ward.
Bryan Zmijewski, the president of the San Diego-Imperial Counties chapter of PORAC, told us that Ward interviewed for an endorsement in the race. During that discussion, he told the group of police officers that he did not support Assemblywoman Shirley Weber's bill, AB 392, as it was written.
At that time, the bill would have updated existing law to make it easier to file criminal charges against an officer who used lethal force. It would have required law enforcement officers prove a killing was necessary and it would have laid out exactly what "necessary" means. PORAC opposed it.
After Ward interviewed with PORAC, the City Council decided to consider endorsing the measure, as it was written.
Ward voted for the resolution, and it passed.
"He told us he could not support it the way it was written. But then he went on to support it – he supported it when there were no changes and when we were against it. That ruffled our feathers," Zmijewski said.
We asked Ward if this was true. His team said he didn't have time for an interview but provided a written statement:
"I haven't heard from PORAC about their internal conversations, but I did vote for the council's resolution in support of AB 392 on the basis of the comments I made at council," he wrote.
That's not a denial of the claim. We looked up his comments at the May 14 Council meeting.
"We should all be able to easily agree on the foundation that nobody should be shot unless it's absolutely necessary. That should be common ground to start from," he said at the meeting. He got emotional as he addressed the fear and concern officers and the public carried and he said he was glad more training would accompany new standards.
"It is important that AB 392 still maintains the standard that an objectively reasonable officer with the same information available in the moment would find no reasonable alternative," he said. "No reasonable alternative is a standard we should want to make work."
But the law was replacing "reasonable" with "necessary." Not long after the Council vote, PORAC and Weber agreed to a compromise in which "necessary" would become the law but the definition of that would be stripped from the bill.
Ward still enjoys the endorsement of the San Diego Police Officers Association, the union that represents city of San Diego police.
McQuary's Real Sort of Reason(s) for Not Running
San Diego Unified school board trustees Mike McQuary (left) and John Lee Evans (right) / Photos by Jamie Scott Lytle
It was kind of weird this week when San Diego Unified School District board member John Lee Evans announced he would not be seeking re-election and then warned against "bomb throwers" running for his seat but then also absolutely torched the majority of people he has served with on the board.
On his personal website, he wrote that most of the other trustees he had served with were not qualified to be there or had bad ethics.
Seems as though he may like throwing a bomb or two himself, just depends on whom it scalds.
When we saw his post, we called his colleague, Mike McQuary, who had not initially been listed as one of the John Lee Evans Approved™ quality board members. McQuary then broke the news to us that he would not be seeking re-election either but his departure isn't until 2022.
McQuary told us that he was not going to seek re-election because he felt like two terms is the right number of terms for the board. This was odd, considering he had supported the new three term-limits restriction approved by voters last year – but no big deal.
Well, maybe it was a big deal to him. The U-T picked up our scoop on McQuary. But when McQuary talked to the newspaper, he cited a different reason for leaving: He was going to be on the board of the organization Sister Cities International and he was going to move his focus to a "more global platform."
He had not told us about this global position. This brought up a few more questions like, for example, why will the global platform be too distracting for McQuary in two years but not now?
But before we could ask, McQuary sent us a statement, unprompted: He said he had been asked to join the international board last weekend and, like he told the paper, his focus would be shifting to that.
"I will be working to connect schools to schools in cities that have Sister City International partnerships," he wrote.
There may be some parents who would prefer his focus remain on things like this, but OK.
We had to ask, though, was he backing off his point that two terms is ideal?
He replied that he doesn't think there should be term limits – voters should vote out anyone they don't like. "However, if term limits are required for school board members, then I agree with our committee recommendation, board resolution and the passed initiative establishing a three-term limit," he wrote.
He continued: "For me personally, two terms will be sufficient for me to accomplish my SDUSD Board Member goals: complete Vision 2020 and begin Vision 2030."
To review: McQuary is not going to run for re-election because two terms is the right number even though he thinks three terms is fine and so is all the terms, hundreds of terms. But he's not leaving because of that. He's leaving because he joined the board of Sister Cities International and so he can't focus on San Diego Unified. But he can focus on San Diego Unified for two more years.
We Do Not Know What Is Up With the Civil Case Against Beiser
San Diego Unified Trustee Kevin Beiser attended his first San Diego Unified school board meeting since four men accused him of harassment and assault. / Photo by Adriana Heldiz
It was a strange day at the San Diego Superior Court for those of us wondering if the civil case for sexual assault and sexual harassment against San Diego Unified School Board Trustee Kevin Beiser had been resolved.
The case had a settlement conference before the judge Friday morning. That caught the attention of at least five media outlets, who were dutifully waiting in Judge Frederick Link's courtroom at the assigned time.
While waiting for Beiser and Dan Gilleon, the unnamed plaintiff's attorney, to arrive, Link teased the assembled reporters about why they were there. He assured us that we wouldn't get much we could use, because the settlement would be entirely confidential.
Then Beiser, flanked by his attorneys, walked through the courtroom and into the judge's chambers. The plaintiff and his attorneys soon joined them, and the media was told to go outside.
Three hours later, Gilleon left the courtroom and told the media that he could not confirm whether there was even a settlement, let alone what was in it.
We waited for Beiser or his attorneys. Then, the clerk of the court emerged to ask why we were still in the hallway. Everyone had already left, she said, and the court was done for the day.
Throughout the morning, bailiffs told us that while judges had their own elevators, they were not available to defendants looking to leave the courthouse discretely. So how did Beiser leave? We don't know! It's a mystery.
Neither Gilleon nor Beiser has responded to a request for confirmation that there was a settlement.
So the civil case has either been settled, or it has not been settled!
The First CA-53 Domino
City Councilwoman Georgette Gomez / Photo by Jamie Scott Lytle
San Diego City Council President Georgette Gómez officially announced this week she's running to replace Rep. Susan Davis in Congress. She has thus officially decided to give up her Council seat, the council presidency and the chair of the Metropolitan Transit System.
The Council has five elections in 2020 and all five are open seats with no incumbent running.
Now the race begins to replace Gómez in all these positions.
Gómez's Council seat is likely to get a lot of attention. It's another safe Democratic district and home to a number of ambitious activists and political professionals who could stage a bid.
But just as interesting will be the jockeying among the other Council members for Council president. Come December 2020 when they need to make that decision, there won't be many elected leaders who will have been there very long. Republican Councilman Chris Cate will be there, as will Councilwomen Monica Montgomery, Vivian Moreno and Jen Campbell, who will be finishing their second years in City Hall. All others will be new.
All expectations are that Democrats will maintain or extend their 6-3 Council advantage next year. Cate won't get it. It's likewise hard to imagine someone taking the chair just after being elected. That leaves Montgomery, Moreno and Campbell to see who can cobble together five votes from their colleagues.
Gómez will also surrender her position on MTS and the San Diego Association of Governments. Gómez is chair of MTS now, and can continue in that role as she runs for Congress. It's likely, though not assured, that she would have stepped away from that role at the start of 2021 regardless. She had become the driving figure behind a 2020 ballot measure for a sales tax to expand transit.
It's fair to wonder whether she'll still be able to continue now that she has her own campaign to worry about.
And Gómez is one of the most powerful people at SANDAG, wielding half of the city's ballyhooed weighted vote, which gives it greater say in regional decision-making than other cities. Whoever takes over for her as Council President will get that responsibility as well.
Faulconer to CA GOP: 'Be the party that says "Yes!"'
Mayor Kevin Faulconer delivers his 2019 State of the City address. / Photo by Adriana Heldiz
Dispatch from Lisa Halverstadt: Mayor Kevin Faulconer is back in the GOP limelight and his approach to homelessness is drawing headlines.
The mayor spoke at the state GOP's fall convention in Indian Wells, highlighting opportunities for the state's Republican minority to bat back the Democratic supermajority. His proposed method: Deliver homelessness solutions in a state crying out for them.
"It's time for California Republicans to provide a real alternative to the machine majority. And let's start by showing how we make a difference in places where we are in leadership – like cities," Faulconer said. "In San Diego, we're doing things differently and getting results. Nowhere is that more apparent than in how we address homelessness."
"San Diego County was one of the only places in the state where homelessness decreased this year," Faulconer said. "It went down by 6 percent."
That statement is missing some context. The group that conducts San Diego's homeless census changed its methodology this year. The task force has cautioned that this year's data isn't comparable to past years' counts.
What is true: San Diego County didn't have the surge in homelessness that other major counties saw this year.
Before San Diego's deadly hepatitis A outbreak, Faulconer acknowledged he sought consensus before taking action. Since then, he has dramatically increased spending to address homelessness in the city and pushed for code changes to make it easier to build homeless housing in the city. He's also increased city trash clean-ups and created a Neighborhood Policing Division to focus on quality-of-life crimes that can be linked to homelessness, an approach that has proven controversial.
Faulconer argued that state Republicans can – and should – distinguish themselves by offering up homelessness solutions across the state.
"This is our chance to be the party that says 'Yes!' to solving this crisis. 'Yes!' to mental health services to get the sick off the sidewalks. 'Yes!' to common-sense projects like bridge shelters, so people have a safe and clean place to sleep at night. And 'Yes!' to building the housing our state needs. My fellow Republicans, we need to be the party of 'Yes!'" Faulconer said.
Those comments echo his State of the City speech this year, in which he positioned himself as a so-called YIMBY, begging city leaders to join him in saying "yes" to making way for more housing.
You can read Faulconer's full remarks here.
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