Report of 16 July 1915

(NAI, CSO/JD/2/37)

The report of 16 July 1915 records visits to the shop of Thomas J Clarke, 75 Parnell Street, by Con Colbert, followed at various stages by JJ Farrelly, James Connolly, Thomas Byrne, James J Buggy, James Murray, William O’Leary Curtis and Arthur Griffith.

The departure of Dr P McCartan by train to Dungannon and Denis McCullough to Belfast is noted.

A meeting is reported in the office of the Irish Volunteers, 2 Dawson Street, by Michael J O’Rahilly, Thomas MacDonagh, Herbert Pim, Herbert ‘Barney’ Mellows, Bulmer Hobson and Michael O’Hanrahan. The subsequent departure of Pim to Belfast is recorded.

A group of around 64 ‘Sinn Fein Volunteers’ are observed marching ‘without rifles’ towards Clonliffe under the command of Joseph McGuinness.

A copy of the socialist newspaper The Workers’ Republic is included ‘which as usual contains some paragraphs of an anti-British character’.

For the full report please see Dublin Metropolitan Police (DMP) Detective Department report on the movement of Dublin extremists on 15 July 1915.