Report of 24 September 1915

(NAI, CSO/JD/2/97)

The report of 24 September 1915 records visits to the shop of Thomas J Clarke, 75 Parnell Street, by Seán MacDiarmada, followed by John McGarry and Thomas Byrne, Frank Fahy and Con Colbert and [James] O’Connor.

A meeting in the office of the Irish Volunteers, 2 Dawson Street, is attended by Michael J O’Rahilly, Herbert ‘Barney’ Mellows and Michael O’Hanrahan.

The departure of Seán MacDiarmada by train to Limerick and Peter Hourihan to Mallow is noted. It is observed they ‘returned to Mallow by same train, but in a different compartment’, but were seen talking on the platform before boarding the train.

JJ Walsh is observed in his shop at 26 Blessington Street. An advertisement for Walsh’s shops is found in the enclosed copy of The Workers’ Republic, which includes the by-line ‘Support a victim of British militarism’.

Copies are included of The Workers’ Republic and a pamphlet on the life of Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa, written by Terence MacSwiney and published by the O’Donovan Rossa funeral committee.

For the full report please see Dublin Metropolitan Police (DMP) Detective Department report on the movement of Dublin extremists on 23 September 1915.