The I.R.B. in Kilmallock 1860 A very interesting memoir written or dictated by Nicholas Gaffney of Kilmallock, Co. Limerick, recounting his experiences in the IRB in Kilmallock, 1860-65, manuscript, signed at end, 8 pp (numbered III-X, lacking some previous unrelated matter), with a covering note from his son to Miss [Margaret] Daly, sending the memoir for the use of Louis Le Roux, who apparently stayed with her in Limerick. The memoir, written about 1930 when he was almost 90, describes Gaffney's experiences as a young man in Kilmallock in the 1860s, recruitment for the Papal Brigade where the young men hoped to learn the use of arms, formation of 'The National Brotherhood of St. Patrick' about 1861, initially as a literary society but 'we knew soon after it was a cover for fenianism', funeral of Terence Bellew MacManus [Young Irelander and Fenian] in 1862 [recte 1860?], when 'thirty of us attended at the railway station with crepe on arms. When we found the train was not going to stop, these boys dropped on their knees with a prayer .. From that out, we were specially spotted and watched by the police as well as sneered at by some of the town shopkeepers .. As the reading room was done up [watched by police], we used the hurling field (cross-country hurling I mean) & other means to get men & to know each other .. '63 & even '64 passed away without much incident .. Those that were trusted were sent out at night to cut ash for pike handles .. there were one or two blacksmiths able & willing to make pikes .. in present days, people would sneer at the pike, but in those days the pike, well handled with resolute men, was a powerful weapon particularly as we had no rifles. In '64 we seemed to be on our own oars, Dublin was not giving us any aid or arms & it was only pure patriotism kept us together .. One man was on the run for a considerable time .. He used to spend most of his time casting revolver bullets, we buying bits of lead & pounds of powder, a poor way for a large object .. About Feb. '65, we got orders to be ready for the 25th March. The spirit of the men was high but everything else was low, still we hoped on .. However, some time before the 25th we were informed that the rising was postponed to the 15th Aug. .. I may mention here that we had arranged to take what arms were in the barracks. Some were friendly with the police & often got the loan of a gun, to shoot birds, etc. We were to raise a big row down the street & most of the police would be drawn down & our men on the watch would take the arms & ammunition. Remember that the police at that time often said they didn't join to do fighting, of course it was different later on - and then the 15th August came, and no rising, then all hope seemed lost .. ' In February 1866 the Habeas Corpus Act was suspended and there were wholesale arrests. Those who could, got away to England or America; the writer was smuggled away to England, and did not see Kilmallock again until 1868. A very interesting document, showing what it was like to be a rank-and-file Fenian in a country district far from the centres of the movement, an aspect of Fenian affairs which is very poorly documented. The I.R.B. in Kilmallock 1860 A very interesting memoir written or dictated by Nicholas Gaffney of Kilmallock, Co. Limerick, recounting his experiences in the IRB in Kilmallock, 1860-65, manuscript, signed at end, 8 pp (numbered III-X, lacking some previous unrelated matter), with a covering note from his son to Miss [Margaret] Daly, sending the memoir for the use of Louis Le Roux, who apparently stayed with her in Limerick. The memoir, written about 1930 when he was almost 90, describes Gaffney's experiences as a young man in Kilmallock in the 1860s, recruitment for the Papal Brigade where the young men hoped to learn the use of arms, formation of 'The National Brotherhood of St. Patrick' about 1861, initially as a literary society but 'we knew soon after it was a cover for fenianism', funeral
The I.R.B. in Kilmallock 1860 A very interesting memoir written or dictated by Nicholas Gaffney of Kilmallock, Co. Limerick, recounting his experiences in the IRB in Kilmallock, 1860-65, manuscript, signed at end, 8 pp (numbered III-X, lacking some previous unrelated matter), with a covering note from his son to Miss [Margaret] Daly, sending the memoir for the use of Louis Le Roux, who apparently stayed with her in Limerick. The memoir, written about 1930 when he was almost 90, describes Gaffney's experiences as a young man in Kilmallock in the 1860s, recruitment for the Papal Brigade where the young men hoped to learn the use of arms, formation of 'The National Brotherhood of St. Patrick' about 1861, initially as a literary society but 'we knew soon after it was a cover for fenianism', funeral of Terence Bellew MacManus [Young Irelander and Fenian] in 1862 [recte 1860?], when 'thirty of us attended at the railway station with crepe on arms. When we found the train was not going to stop, these boys dropped on their knees with a prayer .. From that out, we were specially spotted and watched by the police as well as sneered at by some of the town shopkeepers .. As the reading room was done up [watched by police], we used the hurling field (cross-country hurling I mean) & other means to get men & to know each other .. '63 & even '64 passed away without much incident .. Those that were trusted were sent out at night to cut ash for pike handles .. there were one or two blacksmiths able & willing to make pikes .. in present days, people would sneer at the pike, but in those days the pike, well handled with resolute men, was a powerful weapon particularly as we had no rifles. In '64 we seemed to be on our own oars, Dublin was not giving us any aid or arms & it was only pure patriotism kept us together .. One man was on the run for a considerable time .. He used to spend most of his time casting revolver bullets, we buying bits of lead & pounds of powder, a poor way for a large object .. About Feb. '65, we got orders to be ready for the 25th March. The spirit of the men was high but everything else was low, still we hoped on .. However, some time before the 25th we were informed that the rising was postponed to the 15th Aug. .. I may mention here that we had arranged to take what arms were in the barracks. Some were friendly with the police & often got the loan of a gun, to shoot birds, etc. We were to raise a big row down the street & most of the police would be drawn down & our men on the watch would take the arms & ammunition. Remember that the police at that time often said they didn't join to do fighting, of course it was different later on - and then the 15th August came, and no rising, then all hope seemed lost .. ' In February 1866 the Habeas Corpus Act was suspended and there were wholesale arrests. Those who could, got away to England or America; the writer was smuggled away to England, and did not see Kilmallock again until 1868. A very interesting document, showing what it was like to be a rank-and-file Fenian in a country district far from the centres of the movement, an aspect of Fenian affairs which is very poorly documented. The I.R.B. in Kilmallock 1860 A very interesting memoir written or dictated by Nicholas Gaffney of Kilmallock, Co. Limerick, recounting his experiences in the IRB in Kilmallock, 1860-65, manuscript, signed at end, 8 pp (numbered III-X, lacking some previous unrelated matter), with a covering note from his son to Miss [Margaret] Daly, sending the memoir for the use of Louis Le Roux, who apparently stayed with her in Limerick. The memoir, written about 1930 when he was almost 90, describes Gaffney's experiences as a young man in Kilmallock in the 1860s, recruitment for the Papal Brigade where the young men hoped to learn the use of arms, formation of 'The National Brotherhood of St. Patrick' about 1861, initially as a literary society but 'we knew soon after it was a cover for fenianism', funeral
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