Sinn Féin Meeting Macroom, Royal Irish Constabulary File
TitleSinn Féin Meeting Macroom, Royal Irish Constabulary File
ReferenceIE 627/U104
Date
October 1919
Production date 1919 - 1919
Scope and ContentFile, originally entitled ‘Reports and Seized Documents Sinn Fein Meeting, Macroom, October 1919’. Sent to Chief Secretary's Office, Dublin Castle, by the Royal Irish Constabulary, concerning a Sinn Fein meeting held in Macroom on 5 October 1919. The Sinn Fein meeting was attended by T.J. McSweeney (Terence MacSwiney) MP, Daniel Corkery, Denis Lynch, Patrick O’Connor, John Kelleher, John Healy, Patrick O’Donoghue, Jeremiah Leahy and Michael Kelleher, and it may have concerned the raising of the Dáil Éireann loan.
File is divided into 6 original parts, which have been maintained.
Part 1 contains reports by RIC personnel such as U104/1/1, minute by the RIC Inspector general, Chief Secretary’s Office, Dublin, enclosing list of men attending the Sinn Fein meeting and advising '...that these men should be prosecuted under Section 7 and 2 (3) (a) of the Crime Act 1887 for taking part in an unlawful assembly.'
Parts 2 to 6 contain papers seized from some of those present at the meeting, or found at the meeting place, with reports and indices of same; such as U104/2/4, Seized item marked ‘A1', notebook of Terence McSweeney, containing notes on Sinn Fein and republicans in mid-Cork/Macroom area; and such as U104/3/5, seized item marked ‘B2’, letter, in Irish, from Secretary of Sinn Fein Mid Cork constituency office, Macroom, concerning Dáil Éireann Internal Loan 1919; and such as, U104/3/16 seized item marked ‘B13’, letter from Michael Collins, Minister for Finance, Dáil Éireann, Dublin, to Terence MacSwiney T.D. 4 Belgrave Place, Cork, ‘…You will forgive my not replying sooner, but I have been extremely rushed as a result of raids and seizures of correspondence…the Head Office seems to be the only place no documents were got…’.
The file is of interest to the study of intelligence gathering by the RIC on republican activists and organisations during the War of Independence, specifically the Sinn Féin local branch network which was used, as seen in the present collection, as a base to raise funds to maintain the fledgling Dáil Éireann. The items seized by the RIC are also of interest to the study of the republicans’ day to day activities and methods of organisation.
File is divided into 6 original parts, which have been maintained.
Part 1 contains reports by RIC personnel such as U104/1/1, minute by the RIC Inspector general, Chief Secretary’s Office, Dublin, enclosing list of men attending the Sinn Fein meeting and advising '...that these men should be prosecuted under Section 7 and 2 (3) (a) of the Crime Act 1887 for taking part in an unlawful assembly.'
Parts 2 to 6 contain papers seized from some of those present at the meeting, or found at the meeting place, with reports and indices of same; such as U104/2/4, Seized item marked ‘A1', notebook of Terence McSweeney, containing notes on Sinn Fein and republicans in mid-Cork/Macroom area; and such as U104/3/5, seized item marked ‘B2’, letter, in Irish, from Secretary of Sinn Fein Mid Cork constituency office, Macroom, concerning Dáil Éireann Internal Loan 1919; and such as, U104/3/16 seized item marked ‘B13’, letter from Michael Collins, Minister for Finance, Dáil Éireann, Dublin, to Terence MacSwiney T.D. 4 Belgrave Place, Cork, ‘…You will forgive my not replying sooner, but I have been extremely rushed as a result of raids and seizures of correspondence…the Head Office seems to be the only place no documents were got…’.
The file is of interest to the study of intelligence gathering by the RIC on republican activists and organisations during the War of Independence, specifically the Sinn Féin local branch network which was used, as seen in the present collection, as a base to raise funds to maintain the fledgling Dáil Éireann. The items seized by the RIC are also of interest to the study of the republicans’ day to day activities and methods of organisation.
Extent1 file of 45 items
LanguageIrish and English
Persons keywordRoyal Irish Constabulary, Sinn Féin, Collins, Michael (TD and General) d.Aug 1922, MacSwiney, Terence | 1879-1920 | Lord Mayor of Cork
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