The documents give an insight into the level of monitoring anyone suspected of being connected to planning the rising was subjected to.
Under the title of -The Movement of Extremists documents – the National Archives will publish a series of daily reports on its website –
Today's releases focus on reports from June 1st to June 5th with Professor Thomas McDonagh's name underlined in one of the documents.
The Cloughjordan native who was one of the seven signatories of the Proclamation and active in the Rising as Commandant of the 2nd Battalion at Jacob’s Biscuit Factory is mentioned in 85 of the 251 reports.
Thomas Clarke's whose father was an RIC man in The Premier is mentioned in almost every report in the series and his shop is one of the key locations under surveillance.
While Eamon Ceannt – whose mother hailed from Tipperary features in over 60 of the reports.
For full details on the five reports released today click link below
http://www.nationalarchives.ie/digital-resources/chief-secretarys-office-crime-branch-dublin-metropolitan-police-dmp-movement-of-extremists-29-may-1915-20-april-1916/
