ROINN COSANTA. BUREAU OF MILITARY HISTORY, 1913-21 ...

STATEMENT BY PATRICK DUNLEAVY,Barbersfort House, Ballyglunin, Co. Galway.0/C, North Galway BrigadeI was initiated a member of the Irish RepublicanBrotherhood some time in 1912. There was then a verysmall circle in Tuan. John P. Connolly (deed.) sworeme in. Later, I joined Fianna Eireann under Liam Langley,Tuam.The late Liam Mellows and Archie Heron of Belfastwere constant weak-end visitors to Langley's house andJames Roache's house at Cloontroa Road, Tuam. Aftersome time, we got uniforms and wooden guns, and used totrain under Liam Mellows and Liam Langley at a placecalled Malachy's Plain.Some time in l9l4, there was a Volunteer companyformed in Tuam, and some of the older members of FiannaEireann became officers in that company. They used toparade and drill publicly at Parkmore under ex IrishGuardsman named Shaughnessy, and Philips, and wereknown as Redmond's Volunteers. Later on, there was asplit in the ranks of the Volunteers, and they formedinto two groups, known as Redmond Volunteers andMacNeill. Volunteers. Some of the Redmond Volunteersjoined the British army during the 19l4-l9l8 war.The MacNei1l Volunteers remained faithful to theRepublican cause, but the organisation seemed to fall