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Many of the main players in the 1916 Rising featured regularly in newspapers of the time, but most of the activities relating to the Rising did not feature in the news and are only now known from information held in archives.

Compiled by Nial Murray, the Irish Examiner

 

 

Monday, 10 January, 1916

  • Among those seen by Dublin Metropolitan Police (DMP) visiting Tom Clarke鈥檚 shop at 75 Parnell St were Se谩n MacDiarmada. Both were members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood鈥檚 Military Council, by now heavily advanced in planning the Rising. (Both would also be executed in its aftermath). MacDiarmada was also seen attending an Irish Volunteers drill parade in Parnell Square, Dublin.
  • Michael O鈥橰ahilly (the O鈥橰ahilly, who would be killed during the Rising) and 脡amon de Valera were seen visiting the Irish Volunteers head office in Dawson St..

 

Wednesday, 12 January, 1916

  • An anti-conscription meeting organised by the Irish Volunteers at Cork City Hall attracted 1,500 people, and 30 of the 150 Volunteers among them were armed. Fr Michael O鈥橣lanagan, who presided at Jeremiah O鈥橠onovan Rossa鈥檚 funeral the previous August, was the main speaker. Although his language was 鈥渟trongly pro-German鈥, local police surmised it would have little effect. It nevertheless prompted the Daily Express to describe Sinn F茅in (of which Fr O鈥橣lanagan would later be president) and the Irish Volunteers as 鈥渁 rising force鈥.
  • Dublin Metropolitan Police saw Countess Constance Markievicz going into the office of John R Reynolds in College St. (Countess Markievicz was a key figure in James Connolly鈥檚 Irish Citizen Army, who would take up arms in St Stephen鈥檚 Green on Easter Monday, 1916. Reynolds, a local head of he IRB, was in the GPO during the Rising.) Among those who met at the Volunteers鈥 offices were subsequent signatories of the Proclamation of the Republic on Easter Monday: Tom谩s MacDonagh, Se谩n MacDiarmada, and P谩draig Pearse, as well as 脡amon de Valera, the O鈥橰ahilly, and Volunteers founder Bulmer Hobson (who opposed a rebellion when he learned of the plans).

Thursday 13 January, 1916

  • Terence MacSwiney, full-time organiser for the Irish Volunteers in Cork organiser, and Thomas Kent, from Castlelyons, near Fermoy, were arrested for 鈥渟editious鈥 speeches at Ballynoe in East Cork where they disrupted an army recruitment rally. Kent threatened hunger strike while awaiting charges. (Kent was executed in Cork on May 10, 1916, after being courtmartialed in relation to the shooting dead of Head Constable William Rowe a week earlier. MacSwiney would die on hunger strike in October 1920, when he was Lord Mayor of Cork, a TD in the first D谩il, and in command of the IRA鈥檚 Cork No 1 Brigade.) Tom Clarke鈥檚 shop was visited by MacDiarmada, Con Colbert (who would be executed along with Clarke and MacDiarmada after the Rising), and future President of Ireland Se谩n T O鈥橩elly.
  • Hobson, Michael O鈥橦anrahan (another man executed for his role in the Rising), the O鈥橰ahilly, 脡amon de Valera, and others, were seen by police attending meetings at Irish Volunteers headquarters.

Friday, 14 January, 1916 

  • Among those who the DMP observed at the Irish Volunteers鈥 Dawson St offices were MacDonagh, Hobson, MacDiarmada, Joseph Plunkett (IRB Military Council member, Proclamation signatory, and executed on May 4, 1916), Colbert and de Valera. The movements were also noted of JJ Walsh, one of the founders of the Irish Volunteers in Cork, who would fight in the Rising with the Hibernian Rifles, associated with the Ancient Order of Hibernians. He later became TD for Cork City, 1919-21.

Saturday, 15 January, 1916

  • In Glasgow, two men were arrested in connection with raids for explosives at a rural coal mine. The offences were the work of local Irish Volunteers, who had been dispatching the gelignite to Dublin, which was now known to police and government officials in Ireland.
  • A week of officer training courses for Irish Volunteers battalion officers began in their Dublin HQ. Over the weekend, DMP observed about 240 Irish Volunteers assemble and march under command of Ned Daly, Frank Fahy, Joseph McGuinness and Gerald Griffin. (Daly, commandant of the Volunteers Dublin 1st Battalion, would be executed on May 4, 1916).

Sunday, 16 January, 1916

  • An Irish Volunteers general council meeting in Dublin was attended by members from around the country. Under the chair of Eoin MacNeill, training and equipping Volunteers was discussed, and a resolution passed deploring British policy of detaining Irish Volunteers without trial, sometimes without charge. Police reported those at the meeting included Pearse, O鈥橰ahilly, Hobson, Plunkett, MacDiarmada, MacDonagh, and others.
  • The IRB鈥檚 supreme council decided in Clontarf Town Hall to rise at the earliest possible date. They did not know the smaller IRB military council had already fixed Easter Sunday, April 23, for the Rising to begin.

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Sources

Dublin Metropolitan Police 鈥楳ovement of Extremists鈥 files in the National Archives of Ireland (available online: www.nationalarchives.ie)

Bureau of Military History witness statements and Military Archives timeline (both online - www.militaryarchives.ie)

RIC Inspector General and County Inspector reports (深夜亚洲福利久久 College Cork special collections)

The Irish Revolution Project

Scoil na Staire /Tíreolaíocht

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