Report of 27 January 1916

(NAI, CSO/JD/2/195)

The report of 27 January 1916 records visits to the shop of Thomas J Clarke, 75 Parnell Street, by John McGarry, followed by Con Colbert, Piaras Béaslaí, Joseph McGuinness, John R Reynolds and Ben Parsons. Béaslaí had arrived earlier in the day at Kingstown [Dún Laoghaire] on a boat from Holyhead [Wales].

The departure of Joseph Murray by train to Ardee [County Louth] is noted.

A meeting in the office of the Irish Volunteers, 2 Dawson Street, is attended by Eoin MacNeill, James Connolly, Laurence Raul, Michael J O’Rahilly, Joseph Plunkett, Herbert ‘Barney’ Mellows and Eimar O’Duffy. A second meeting later the same evening is again attended by Raul, O’Rahilly and Plunkett, along with Fenton Lynch, Gerald Griffin, Frank Fahy, Piaras Béaslaí, Thomas MacDonagh, Éamonn Ceannt, Patrick H Pearse, Joseph McGuinness, Thomas Hunter, William Sheehan and Edward Daly.

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

Copies are included of the latest issues of The Irish Volunteer, Nationality, Honesty and New Ireland.

For the full report please see Dublin Metropolitan Police (DMP) Detective Department report on the movement of Dublin extremists on 26 January 1916.