Report of 14 March 1916

(NAI, CSO/JD/2/230)

The report of 14 March 1916 states that Thomas J Clarke has not yet returned to Dublin. In his absence, his shop at 75 Parnell Street is visited throughout the day by Con Colbert, Seán MacDiarmada, Edward Daly and William O’Leary Curtis.

A meeting in the office of the Irish Volunteers, 2 Dawson Street, is attended by Bulmer Hobson, Thomas MacDonagh, Herbert ‘Barney’ Mellows, Eoin MacNeill, Jeremiah Joseph O’Connell, Michael O’Hanrahan, Joseph McGuinness, Terence J McSwiney and Pierce McCann. A second meeting later that evening is again attended by Michael O’Hanrahan, along with John Fitzgibbon, Thomas McCarthy, Laurence Raul, John O’Hanrahan and Joseph O’Byrne.

JJ Walsh is observed in his shop at 26 Blessington Street.

The report concludes with details of a drill by around 50 members of the Irish Volunteers in the hall at the back of 41 Rutland Square in the presence of Joseph McGuinness, FJ McCabe and Edward Daly.

For the full report please see Dublin Metropolitan Police (DMP) Detective Department report on the movement of Dublin extremists on 13 March 1916.