Creator:
Ireland. Commissioners of Irish Lights
Dates:
1920-09-23-1921-07-11 — 1920-09-23
Type/Formats:
Text — Miscellaneous documents
Publisher:
UCD Library, University College Dublin
Contributor:
James, G. W. (Lighthouse keeper)
Abstract:
Files contain documents regarding Raids on Mine Head Lighthouse during the Irish War of Independence. The Raids were carried out by the Irish Republican Army. Included below are extracts from reports by G. W. James, Principal Keeper, on the Raids: 22 September 1920: Station raided by armed men at 11... [ … ]
Creator:
Ireland. Commissioners of Irish Lights
Dates:
1921-02-13-1922-03-21 — 1921-02-13
Type/Formats:
Text — Letter — Miscellaneous documents
Publisher:
UCD Library, University College Dublin
Contributor:
Byrne, Murtagh (Lighthouse keeper)
Abstract:
Files contain report from M. Byrne, Principal Keeper, regarding Raids on Rotten Lighthouse during and after the Irish War of Independence. The Raids were carried out by the Irish Republican Army: 13 February 1921: Station raided by armed and masked men. Telescope carried off ; 15 March 1922: at 4... [ … ]
Creator:
Ireland. Commissioners of Irish Lights
Dates:
1921-06-22-1921-06-25 — 1921-06-22
Type/Formats:
Text — Miscellaneous documents
Publisher:
UCD Library, University College Dublin
Contributor:
Ryan, Thomas F. (Lighthouse keeper)
Abstract:
File contains report by Thomas F. Ryan, Principal Keeper Galley Head, of a Raid on the Station on 21 June 1921 by members of the Irish Republican Army during the Irish War of Independence. A small telescope was taken in the raid with the promise that it would be returned in about a month. [ … ]
Creator:
Ireland. Commissioners of Irish Lights
Dates:
1920-07-23-1920-12-23 — 1920-07-23
Type/Formats:
Text — Letter — Miscellaneous documents
Publisher:
UCD Library, University College Dublin
Contributors:
Great Britain. Admiralty — Wright, Jonathan W. (Lighthouse keeper) — Hill, Francis (Lighthouse keeper)
Abstract:
Files contain documents regarding Raids on Roancarrigmore during the Irish War of Independence. The Raids were carried out by the Irish Republican Army. Included below are extracts from reports by J. W. Wright, Principal Keeper and F. Hill, Keeper on Shore: 22 July 1920: dwellings raided, 2... [ … ]
Creator:
Ireland. Commissioners of Irish Lights
Dates:
1917-09-18-1921-11-21 — 1917-09-18
Type/Formats:
Text — Letter — Miscellaneous documents
Publisher:
UCD Library, University College Dublin
Contributors:
Great Britain. Admiralty — Royal Irish Constabulary — Great Britain. Army — Ireland. Office of the Chief Secretary
Abstract:
Files contain documents regarding storage of explosives at Explosive Fog Signal Stations. Included are details of: quantities of explosives each stations, storage and security conditions (September 1917) ; police escort when transporting explosives (February 1919) ; stocks of explosives to be... [ … ]
Creator:
Ireland. Commissioners of Irish Lights
Dates:
1921-05-21-1921-05-25 — 1921-05-21
Type/Formats:
Text — Miscellaneous documents
Publisher:
UCD Library, University College Dublin
Contributor:
Duffy, F. R. (Lighthouse keeper)
Abstract:
File contains report by F. R. Duffy, Principal Keeper Duncannon North, of a Raid on the Station on 21 May 1921 by members of the Irish Republican Army during the Irish War of Independence. A small telescope was taken in the raid and the matter reported to local police. [ … ]
Creator:
Ireland. Commissioners of Irish Lights
Dates:
1922-06-30-1922-08-26 — 1922-06-30
Type/Formats:
Text — Miscellaneous documents
Publisher:
UCD Library, University College Dublin
Contributor:
Cahill, Michael (Lighthouse attendant)
Abstract:
File contains report from M. Cahill, Attendant, regarding seizure of oil at Rinalan Point (Rinealon Point) after the Irish War of Independence. The Raid was carried out by the Irish Republican Army: 2 July 1922: 2 barrels of oil were taken by armed men. [ … ]
Creator:
Ireland. Commissioners of Irish Lights
Dates:
1920-06-01-1923-04-04 — 1920-06-01
Type/Formats:
Text — Miscellaneous documents
Publisher:
UCD Library, University College Dublin
Contributors:
Great Britain. Admiralty — Great Britain. Army — Faulkner, Thomas (Lighthouse keeper)
Abstract:
Files contain documents regarding Raids on Hook Tower in 1920-21 during the Irish War of Independence and again in 1923 during the Civil War. The Raids were carried out by the Irish Republican Army and the Irish Republican Army (Anti-Treaty) forces. The purpose of the Raids were to seize explosives... [ … ]
Creator:
Ireland. Commissioners of Irish Lights
Dates:
1914-1931 — 1914
Type/Formats:
Collection — Text — Letter — Miscellaneous documents
Publisher:
UCD Library, University College Dublin
Contributor:
Collins, Niamh
Abstract:
This collection consists of files relating to Irish Lights during World War I, and the Irish War of Independence and Civil War, covering the period 1914-1931. The files contain reports, letters and telegrams from Lightkeepers and other Irish Lights personnel around the coast; correspondence with the... [ … ]
Date:
1919-1921
Type/Formats:
StillImage — Photographs
Contributor:
FitzGerald, Desmond, 1888-1947
Abstract:
Group of men examining the gutted interior of a building. Caption reads ‘Labour Commission. Interior of creamery, Ballymacelligott' (county Kerry). See also P80/PH/15.