Their only position on the western side of the street was in the YMCA building.
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The garrison consisted of roughly 180 men drawn from the 1st and 2nd Battalions of the IRA's 1st Dublin Brigade, commanded by Commandant Paddy O'Brien, armed for the most part only with small arms, (rifles, five Thompson submachineguns and two Lewis light machine guns) apart from one captured armoured car, which they named "The Mutineer".
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Traynor's men in "the block" held out until artillery was brought up, under the cover of armoured cars, to bombard them at point blank range.
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