Report of 19 August 1915

(NAI, CSO/JD/2/66)

The report of 19 August 1915 records visits to the shop of Thomas J Clarke, 75 Parnell Street, by Edward Daly and Thomas Byrne, followed at various stages by Diarmuid Lynch, John O’Mahony, Seán T Ó Ceallaigh and William O’Leary Curtis.

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

A meeting of Bulmer Hobson, Thomas MacDonagh, Patrick Ryan, Patrick H Pearse, Jeremiah J O’Connell, James O’Connor and Herbert ‘Barney’ Mellows is reported in the office of the Irish Volunteers, 2 Dawson Street.

An agenda for a special meeting of [Dublin] corporation [not present] is discussed in the report. According to the report, the agenda includes a motion to protest against the imprisonment of members of the Irish Volunteers and is signed by a number of individuals, who with the exception of a named supporters of John Redmond are ‘in sympathy with the Sinn Fein Volunteers and Transport Workers Union’.

Copies of The Volunteer and Nationality referred to are not present.

For the full report please see Dublin Metropolitan Police (DMP) Detective Department report on the movement of Dublin extremists on 18 August 1915.