Murphy’s Town Hall Athenry 196 Endnote 1: For periods where no Hall Journals are available (especially the very early days), we have tried to include at least one entry for each year. Where Journals are available we have tried to include at least one Hall entry for each month of the years covered. Again, where we were totally reliant on alternate sources (i.e. no journals available) an entry for each month was not always possible. Where we could identify no Hall information, we have tried to include an Athenry related story, wherever possible. The content is as comprehensive as was possible with resources available. Endnote 2: As set out at the beginning, Thomas B Cleary of Abbey Row built the Hall for Dick Murphy c.1907. In his Sworn Statement before the Advisory Committee on 6th April 1937, No: 37026, (which can be found on page 30 of his military pension file, MSP34REF37026), when asked where the headquarters was in the context of the Volunteers and the 1916 Rising, Thomas Cleary responds as follows (image ©The Military Archives): 162 “It... is the Town Hall presently. It was I built it. I was after building it.” http://mspcsearch.militaryarchives.ie/docs/files//PDF_Pensions/R2/MSP34REF37026ThomasBCleary/WMSP34REF37026ThomasBCleary.pdf Endnote 3: The Sunday Independent, 7th May 1916 reported as follows on page 1, under the heading Captain Mellows and his Men: “An interesting story of the remarkable events... in Galway... It was in the little country town of Athenry, eleven miles east of Galway... that the conspiracy in the West has had its centre and presented its most startling incidents. Easter Monday was a very busy day at the Town Hall. There had been a little trouble on the Sunday with a well-known Sinn Feiner who had refused to allow the police to examine a suspicious looking tin can that he was carrying through the village street. Moreover, the police knew that a certain notorious character named Captain Mellows, who had been deported from Ireland a month before... had entered the West Country again, disguised as a priest... So they were not surprised to learn that one of the activities at the municipal centre was the manufacture of bombs... At ten o’clock on Tuesday night... there was a swift mobilisation at the Town Hall and Captain Mellows publicly took over command...” Endnote 4: Stephen Jordan in his June 1937 supplementary evidence before the Advisory Committee on Pension Awards told of liberating Dick Murphy from the clutches of the RIC at the Easter 1916 mobilisation, see extracts below in his own words (image ©The Military Archives). http://mspcsearch.militaryarchives.ie/docs/files/PDF_Membership/7/WA21%20(4)_A.pdf 162 Clarke’s Lane appears to be an older name for Clarke Street
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