Report of 31 July 1915

(NAI, CSO/JD/2/50)

The report of 31 July 1915 records visits to the shop of Thomas J Clarke, 75 Parnell Street, by Thomas Byrne, Thomas Dolan, Michael McGinn and John McGarry.

The sentencing of Liam Mellows to three months imprisonment under the Defence of the Realm Act is reported.

Bulmer Hobson, MJ Pender, Michael O’Hanrahan and Herbert ‘Barney’ Mellows are observed in the office of the Irish Volunteers, 2 Dawson Street.

Details are provided of a meeting at 41 Parnell Square by Major John MacBride, James Whelan, Thomas J Clarke, Patrick H Pearse, Éamonn Ceannt, Con Colbert, James Murray, Ben Parsons, Michael McGinn, Diarmuid Lynch, TJ Sheehan, Seán T Ó Ceallaigh, Charles Wyse Power, James J Buggy, James Stritch, John O’Mahony and Thomas MacDonagh.

The report concludes by stating nothing further can be added to the detailed report submitted previously about the O’Donovan Rossa funeral procession.

For the full report, please see Dublin Metropolitan Police (DMP) Detective Department report on the movement of Dublin extremists on 30 July 1915.