James Bowe’s pub on William Street was seized by the rebels
and used as a sniping position but was abruptly abandoned leaving the valuable
weapons behind and it was left to member of Cumman NaBan to retrieve them.
Annie O’Brien takes up the story,
“Word came in from a sniping
post, a public house called Bowe's at the corner of William St. and Coppinger Row and that
the two snipers at that post had evacuated it, leaving their arms behind them,
and they sent word to Dawson St.
to have their arms collected and put into safe keeping. The two of us went to
the post and found the house locked up. We went to the house next door where we
found a friendly man who showed us up to the skylight which we got through and
on to the roof of the public house. Its skylight was a bit small and only my
sister, who was small, was able to get through. She went down and opened the
door of the public house for the rest of us. We had to search the whole of the
house for the arms and at last we found the two loaded rifles in an
office”
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