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DOD/3/33687
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Histories and historical records. Reports and documents received since closing of Bureau of Military History.
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File contains correspondence and memoranda. Correspondence indicates that late submissions to the Bureau of Military History were made by Florence Begley, 32 South Main street, Bandon, county Cork 15 March 1960 regarding the Crossbarry ambush and by Daniel Louis O’Flaherty, Talleybank, Rathdown road, Greystones, county Wicklow. These statements are not contained within the file (See BMH Witness Statements in Military Archives for both cases). A late submission was also made by Daniel Fitzgerald, 27 Turtleback road, New Canaan, Connecticut, in 1977. Fitzgerald’s sister had found correspondence between Daniel Fitzgerald senior, and Michael Allman, of 97 Home Farm road, Drumcondra, Dublin following the death of Fitzgerald senior in 1976. Allman in his letter dated 10 January 1953 to Fitzgerald senior asks him to forward his account of the Thomson gun episode for submission to the Bureau of Military History. While Fitzgerald wrote the account his son is unsure that it was sent to Allman, as such he has forwarded a photocopy and typescript transcript of his father’s version of events. These are contained within the original envelope. Fitzgerald senior’s letter to Allman provides an account of attempts in San Francisco and New York to obtain arms for shipment to Ireland. Fitzgerald senior played a pivotal role in these efforts, and was under the direction of Harry Boland during the ‘Thomson gun affair’, New York, 1921.(see also RO 606 and 24 SP/10291)The remaining material in this file comprises of memoranda and correspondence relating to arrangements for the custody of material received after the closing of the Bureau of Military History and for its association with the Bureau’s collection.
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