Report of 16 September 1915

(NAI, CSO/JD/2/89)

The report of 16 September 1915 records visits to the shop of Thomas J Clarke, 75 Parnell Street, by Diarmuid Lynch, followed by Thomas Byrne, Piaras Béaslaí and John McGarry, William O’Leary Curtis, Ben Parsons and James O’Connor and James Murray.

A meeting in the office of the Irish Volunteers, 2 Dawson Street, was attended by Michael J O’Rahilly, Patrick H Pearse, Thomas MacDonagh, Éamon De Valera and Herbert ‘Barney’ Mellows.

The report concludes with details of the assembly of 36 members of the ‘Sinn Fein Volunteers’ and their march without rifles towards Jones’ Road.

Copies of The Irish Volunteer, Nationality and The Hibernian referred to in the report are not present.

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