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4 unusual facts about Free State Intelligence Department – Oriel House


Free State Intelligence Department – Oriel House

Witnesses saw them being shot dead at 'The Thatch', Puck's Lane, (now Yellow Road), Whitehall, Dublin.

A few new people were also recruited to the department, young men like Michael Joe Costello and Daniel Bryan, both of whom would rise to high office in later years in the army.

Most of these deaths, or the circumstances leading to them, were not witnessed, but several witnesses were there when the two Fianna Éireann, Alf Colley and Sean Cole were killed at Whitehall, and again when three more Fianna members were arrested at Clonliffe Road and found dead the next morning at Clondalkin.

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The Free State Intelligence Department was based at Oriel House.



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