Illustrations

Figures

3.1. Quartermaster General Department

4.1. Sketches of IRA Grenades and Bombs

4.2. Map of Some IRA Arms Factories in Dublin

Tables

1.1. Generational Rifle Development

2.1. Unionist Firearms Dealers

2.2. Firearms for the Ulster Volunteer Force

2.3. Vessels Used by UVF Arms Smuggling Operations

2.4. Irish Volunteers Rifle Dealers, 1914

2.5. Vessels Used in the Howth Operation

2.6. National Volunteers Firearms Dealers, 1914–1917

2.7. Firearms for the National Volunteers, 1914–1917

2.8. Arms Possessed by Volunteer Forces, December 1914

2.9. Vessels Used by the Irish Volunteers, 1916

2.10. Firearms for the Irish Volunteers, 1916

3.1. IRA Arms, 1917

3.2. Key Leaders in the Quartermaster General Department

3.3. Some Arms Dumps in Dublin

3.4. RIC in Dublin

4.1. Some IRA Arms Production Facilities in Dublin

4.2. Some IRA Arms Factories outside Dublin

5.1. International Republican Representatives

6.1. Some of the Ships Used by the Liverpool Arms Center

6.2. Common .45-Caliber Ammunition Types

7.1. Antitreaty IRA GHQ Members

7.2. Free State Arms Received from the British Government, circa September 1922

7.3. IRA Explosives Manufacturing and Storage Facilities in Dublin

8.1. Costs of Arms, 6 September 1920

8.2. Common Machine Guns Available from World War I

8.3. Costs of Arms, September 1920

8.4. Members of the Purchasing Committee

8.5. Incomplete List of IRA Armorers

8.6. Some Arms Repair Locations Identified in the Records

9.1. Measures of Effectiveness for the Republican Acquisition Efforts

9.2. Pistols Received by QMG Department, September 1920 to July 1921

9.3. Rifles Received by QMG Department, September 1920 to July 1921

9.4. Munitions Passing through QMG Department, September 1920 to July 1921

9.5. Arms and Ammunition Imported and Distributed

9.6. Pistol Ammunition Received by QMG Department, September 1920 to July 1921

9.7. Ammunition Available, 21 March to 20 June 1920

9.8. Rifle Ammunition Received by QMG Department, September 1920 to July 1921

9.9. Shotgun Ammunition Received by QMG Department, September 1920 to July 1921

9.10. Munitions Available, 21 March to 20 June 1920

9.11. Explosives (in Pounds) Received by QMG Department, September 1920 to July 1921

9.12. Director of Munitions Report on Grenade Manufacture

9.13. Explosives Components Received by QMG Department, September 1920 to July 1921

9.14. Report of Arms Available in Munster, circa April 1921

9.15. Corrected Reported Available Arms by Region, circa April 1921

9.16. QMG Reported Munitions Held, 19 December 1921

9.17. Munitions Procured by the IRA, December 1920 to November 1921

9.18. QMG Reported Ammunition Held, 19 December 1921

9.19. Miscellaneous Munitions Statistics